Miss V turned 11 months on the 24 of November! She's getting so big and will be ONE in only 21 days. Wow. I will have a 4 year old and a 1 year old. Why do my babies get so big so fast?
So here's my update on my littlest one:
- Her words consist of "zazazaza", "vavava", and "yaya" (which I do believe is dada).
- She will go to the bottom of our staircase and yell up "yaya" to her daddy knowing he's up there working.
- She likes to whisper and scream right along with you. It's her way of talking with you.
- She's feisty and a temper tantrum thrower. Yay. (ha)
- She's getting faster and faster at crawling.
- She's attempted a stair. She can do it at the church where there is only two stairs that lead to the stage but hasn't yet attempted it at home. Where there are lots. Lots of steep stairs.
- She's gotten yet another tooth. She now has a total of 7!
- She likes to walk if someone is holding her hands. She's not terribly interested in it, especially when A "helps" her. But if Bryan or I'm helping her she'll do it for a bit and then get bored because she knows she can go faster if she crawls. She does like it when she does it though!
- She celebrated her first Thanksgiving last month. On the same day she turned 11 months! She enjoyed a bit of the food. I'm kinda slow going on getting her more and more on solids but the last months she has been enjoying it a bit more.
- She loves to be snuggled. She's been giving tons of hugs.
- She's so smiley.
- And when she gets excited she'll throw her hands in her lap, curl her back, straighten her legs and toes, and give us a huge grin. It's flippin ADORABLE!!
- She's so charming. People will actually stop in the store just to talk to her, make her laugh or talk to them, or just to see her smile. I know this happened with A and I'm sure this happens to other babies, it just always makes me grin to see them want to talk to V. And sweet A will tell them that her name is Violet and she is her baby sister and that her own name is Amelia. It's so sweet.
- Her eyes are getting darker all them time. She no longer has blue eyes but a hazel of some sort.
- She does this adorable face (that she's done forever but still does) where she makes an "ooooh" sound and makes it look like she sucking on a straw while her eyes get really big.
- She pulls herself up onto things into a standing position.
- We're working on getting her to sign "please". I was late on teaching this to her too but we're working on it.
- She's getting better at sleeping at night. I have a noise machine that I turn on to drown out all the other "surprising" noises. It seems to help.
- She's also still down to one nap a day. That'll last anywhere from 1 hour to two but it's usually the former.
- She's always busy and loves to play, but if Sesame Street or Veggie Tales are on, she'll play in front of that and watch in awe.
- She loves to dance and bounce and toss her arms around to music. She loves music.
As for my oldest one:
- She is enjoying school. Loves it!
- We're doing 24 days of Christmas. It's kind of like an advent calendar but with activities to do every day. We have a lot of random acts of kindness and buying/giving away/making gifts for others, and then fun events to attend. Plus things like camping out with daddy, movie night, and ice cream with a friend. She even remembered this from last year. I was surprised that she did! (If you follow me on facebook you'll see pictures of the activities we have every day.)
- She's learning to write her name. At the beginning of the year it was just scribbles but now I can make out the A the M and the I. Super impressive.
- She had a Thanksgiving program for her school and it was adorable. She definitely likes to be in the limelight.
- She's become quite the storyteller, she'll read us books and make up stories to go along with it.
- She's also become a very good artist. She can draw houses and people and they actually resemble them so that you know what they are.
Anyway, there's my update. Hopefully I can actually write a blog post that doesn't involve once a month updates. Ha!
I am in denial that V is almost a year! Nooooooo how can that be possible? Its fun getting to know A on Wed nights ;) sometimes she is not happy to be parted from you guys but soon she is happy as a clam doing whatever it is we are doing :) they are both growing way too fast! love you!
ReplyDeleteI think that V is going to be a preacher or a famous singer, she is practicing in church already. :) She is growing WAY TO FAST!
ReplyDeleteAs for A - oh yeah, she loves to be in the center of things. Cracks me up when she goes in front of the church or surprises me what she says. I like it the most when she talks to me, that is rare, but maybe that makes it more special.