In the blink of an eye

Hard to imagine that she's almost 1. Makes me happy-sad. I love to see the little person who she is becoming, but I hate to say goodbye to my little baby. I've loved every part of the past 11 months. Here's what is new now - just weeks before she turns ONE year old.

Mia is so much fun right now. She's just a little ball of energy. She loves to move around and seems to have little interest in walking. She just wants to go fast the best way that she knows how. That being said, I've caught her standing up without holding on to anything a few times recently.

My favorite development this month ... oh, well actually there are TWO favorites: 1 - her kissing sound. She loves to give kisses to us and her babies/stuffed animals. She starts with a "mmmm" sound and ends it with a "AH." So, so cute and sweet. 2 - this month brought what I consider to be "sleeping through the night" - 11-12 hours a night! Whoo hoo!


At 11 months Mia weighs just under 17 pounds and wears her 6-12 month or 9 month clothing well now (meaning that it fits right). She wears size 3 disposables and mediums in her cloth diapers. She's got 4 teeth now - the middle bottom two and ... get this ... the two on the top that will be on either side of her front teeth! Yes, like little fangs. Sort of funny, I guess. Although, I will be very happy when those top two middle teeth come through since she looks a little silly right now.

This girl loves to eat. She loved mexican food while we were in Cabo - beans and quesadillas were some of her favorites. She also tried fish and liked it. She LOVES lasagna, grilled cheese, sliced turkey meat, and vegetarian breakfast sausage patties. I pretty much give her "regular" food now as she isn't really a fan of baby food, and actually she really dislikes jarred baby food. She much prefers homemade purees.

She is starting to talk more. Despite my attempts to get her to sign, she hasn't picked up many signs yet. We will continue to work on it. In terms of words, she regularly says "da-da," "ma-ma," "kitty" or "cat," "bye," and occasionally "hi."

Laughs and cries - Mia is excellent at both! She loves to laugh, usually Luke can get her going so that she is laughing really, really hard. Such a sweet sound. What's not so sweet? Her screams! The girl can scream louder than any baby I have ever heard. When she is not happy, she lets us know. In fact, she threw a complete tantrum in Target last week and two people stopped to comment (although I could hardly hear what they were saying over the screaming) on her lungs. Just wonderful! I also had a lady in the parking lot at Babies R Us tell me that she could hear Mia screaming as I was pulling into a parking space through the rolled up windows and over the rest of the busy parking lot noise. So, I guess it is safe to say that Michael and I were not over exaggerating when we would tell people how she made it really difficult to sleep through her little "night wakings" for past 10 months!

What a little personality! We love her more each day - what a gift she is.