Miss Penelope 11 months!

It's so hard for me to believe she is 11 months... She's really more of a toddler than a baby any more and it is such a jumble of emotions for me! How is my baby nearly one, and yet this is SO exciting and gosh she is so much fun!

She's so incredibly funny, and gosh we can get her laughing so so hard at times these days, mainly is we "scare" her or tickle her... Those giggles just melt my heart! And along with the giggles comes the adorable jibber jabber she speaks all day long, ALL DAY LONG! She is just such a chatter box and absolutely loves people and kids, loves engaging with others! She has quite the vocabulary, mama (om mom), dada, mote (her little remote), hot, that, see, keys, cat, dog, juice... And there's more. She seriously amazes us, she will get in the bath (which she loves) and point to the water running and Yelp "hot". Or leads you around the house pointing at any and everything saying "see see see" she's such a cutie!

Her favorite activity is pushing her "push toys" and really almost any large toy/item around the house... She goes back and forth and back and forth through the rooms and just everywhere! She gets stuck and walks to the other side of the toy to push it back the other direction, just figures things out so well! She loves to play with books and have me read to her, flipping pages is one of her many tricks!

This picture is to document that her favorite toy is a little remote control. We have taken the batteries out and she will take it wherever she goes! We never leave it at home, she puts the strap on her mouth and crawls all over the house with it! We think it is so darn funny, but she truly has bonded with it! 

She would be outside 24/7 if we let her! She loves it rain or shine... Although since its been so cold recently she's barely been out and I know she's itching to play... And eat leaves!

She is so darn close to walking, it'll be any time! She takes steps by herself but not more than 3-5... I just know she's going to take off any day! 

Another funny story, my mom came over one day and brought Mexican food... P eats almost anything but is not so enthusiastic about anything that is smooshy or similar to baby food texture! So I tried giving her some refried been a just to try and she promptly spit it out! My mom then looked at P and said "yucky" and out of no where P said right back to us "YUCK"... It was quite funny! She's such a silly and very smart girl! We can't get enough of her and everyday she amazes us!!

We also took her on her first trip this month to Virginia for a residency interview and to visit family! She did amazing!! We were so surprised how well she did on the plane and sleeping in a new place, couldn't have asked for a better experience!

9 and 10 months with Miss P

Whoops I can't believe I didn't post a 9 month update!! So here's both!!

These last two months have been a whirlwind, she has done so many new things and become so funny and so giggly! We just can't get enough of our sweet little P Pie!

So she was an expert crawler at 9 months and now by 10 she can crawl into and on top of just about everything!!! And she determined to do it! She keeps  saying "uh oh" all the time and "dada" she would say "mama" a little bit when she was a little younger but now has decided to not say it any more! She is very fascinated with jewelry and that probably hit right around her 9 month mark... She will crawl into our closet and point up up up to my jewelry and chatter at us till we pick her up and let her see!!

Her newest thing is pointing or putting her hand out to whatever direction she wants us to take her and to whatever object she wants to inspect! She loves when Lucas holds her up to the fan and let's her pull the chains to turn on the light... It's amazing to her!!

At nine months we started giving her basically all table food and she just LOVES to feed herself! Sometimes she will eat from a spoon or baby food, and just recently she has thought a fork was interesting... But she's much happier just feeling herself! I can hand her part of a graham cracker now or a little granola bar or whole sweet potatoe fries an green beans!!

At nine months she also tried her first bite of steak and of course her daddy made her filet! She already knows all about the good stuff! Loving yogurt and black beans, her snacks and strawberries and apples! And she still loves her baby oatmeal and of course her favorite is mamas milks!!! 

At nine months she was still waking in the early morning (6am) for a feeding and then would go back to sleep till 8 or 9... Now she sleeps through the night, goes down around 8 and wakes up about 8! Every so often she needs dada to come in and give her a little pat on the bobo and she will go right back to sleep! She still takes either 3 short naps or 2 longer naps, it varies day to day! We are just now breaking in her 9 month clothes and I'm just so excited to be digging in to a different section of her wardrobe!

At her 9 month check up she got a clean bill of health and dr. was impressed with her "uh oh" word! She weighed 17.3 lbs (31st percentile) and was 27" tall (22nd percentile)! Still only has those cute two bottom teeth and we are waiting for some top ones to come in!!!

She started showing interest in pushing her toy elephant around the house at 9 months but she needed some assistance, her little feet would just fly out from underneath her!! Now (starting about 9 1/2 months) she's a pro and wants to push that thing back and forth and back and forth and when she gets stuck she just Rams it into whatever is in her way and looks back at us like "come help me"!! Now she has started playing the "drop my food on the floor" game at meal time... She will look at me and hold her food filled hand out over the floor when she's in her high chair and I'll say "no no p" and she normally brings it back to eat it and then repeats again ha ha! Eventually food gets dropped and then that's when we finish up meal time!! Little stinker! She's just so darn smart and I still can't believe she's ours! We are so lucky to have her! She loves being chased through the house and those giggles just warm out hearts!

Crawled up on the ottoman and took a little rest!