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Eleven Months Old (and a bit...)

This is so belated it hurts, but Briony is now eleven and a half months old. How the heck did that happen? Oh, and scratch everything I've said previously. Eleven and a half month old Briony is our favourite :)

This kid is RIDICULOUS. She makes us laugh every single day - many times a day - and is pretty much the definition of sunshine. It's incredible to me that a baby can be such a good friend, but she is. She is so friendly and has really impressed me with how gentle she can be around babies and animals. She's becoming much more active and confident in her movement, but is still perfectly content to crawl and pull up on things instead of walking (and that's FINE with me!). And the look on her face when she conquers something new... She just BEAMS - and claps for herself, of course. Wonder where she learned that? hehe

New Things This Month:
- Crawling has progressed to lightning speed
- Pulling up on furniture like nobody's business, and letting go sometimes but still pretty cautious
- Crawling up stairs (ack!)
- Giving her 'bite of approval' to things she likes - usually books, but this week it was Mommy too
- Waving pretty much on command when someone says goodbye
- Still LOVING bathtime
- Still LOVING food... We've introduced some yogurt and baby snacks now and she thinks they're the cat's meow
- Still dancing up a storm whenever she hears music she likes - even just a little music clip on a commercial will get her grooving, and her moves are RIDICULOUS
- Learning where her nose is (and mommy's nose and daddy's nose... the game is pretty much indefinite)
- TALKING... So far it's mama and dada and yeah and tickle and hi and hello and yay and baby, but she'll mimic pretty much anything she hears that sounds cool
- In related news, saying HI! about nineteen thousand times a day...
- Understanding NO... When she's doing something she knows she shouldn't be doing, she'll pause, look at me, and then shake her head no

Favourite Moments:
- The look on her face when she scooted up our big staircase for the first time (and then started falling backward because she started enthusiastically clapping for herself and saying YAY! - good thing Daddy was there to catch her)
- Whenever she's particularly happy to see us, she does this very special Briony nuzzle, kind of mashing her cheek into us

Looking Forward To:
More words. More movement. More dancing. And probably getting significantly less work done...

Labels: Briony, Briony's First Year

posted by Lindsay @ 10:36 PM