11 Months

Alaina is quickly moving toward being one year old! It's time I document her 11th month!

This is really not a good photo of me...but I took this picture to show how Alaina likes to shove her hand in my mouth from time to time while she is breastfeeding. This particular day I kept turning my head away and she kept shoving it back in there.

Alaina up in my shoulders on her 11 month bday...10/27... Which is also our wedding anniversary. That day Matthew and I were ships passing in the night, taking turns to go workout in the evening.

 

 

Sometimes the kids will want to make Alaina do or play something and she is not into it! She much prefers to do her own thing. Here Elsie is trying to make her lay in bed and be her baby.

 

 

 

The biggest change while she was 10 months old is that she started crawling. Soon after she turned 10 months, she started backing up from her tummy and getting into a sitting position. The more she practiced that, the more she was also rocking back and forth. One day I pulled out the old trick of putting some puffs just a few feet in front of her and sure enough, she crawled that little distance. That was just what she needed to get started and by the next day she was consistently crawling around the house.

 

Since she started crawling, she is less interested in standing. She will get frustrated when I try to make her stand now. However, she is very interested in pulling things off the couch. Hopefully that interest will eventually get her to stand herself up. She lifts up into a kneeling position and cruises a little bit while on her knees but hasn't pulled into standing yet.

Circle time with her friends...

Apple orchard....

 

 

 

LOVES her cousin Lilly...she races right over to her if she is awake and playing on her blanket. There was one night that I babysat Lilly and the big girls were gone. Lilly and Alaina kept "talking" to each other and cooing back and forth, it was cute!

 

This may have been her first bath with the big girls, now they do them all together quite a bit! Washing up 3 kids is a lot of work!

 

Other things about Alaina since turning 11 months...

-she has started pointing with her pointer finger. I love it! The other night at dinner she was pointing at different things and I was labeling each thing she pointed at.

- started sleeping through the night, finally! I came up with a plan that I would only feed Alaina for 3 minutes at night, then 2, then 1, then not feed her at all anymore. I ended up feeding her for 3 minutes, put her back to bed and she cried for like 5 more minutes or so before falling back to sleep. The next night she never woke up! She now generally sleeps until 6:30-7, if she wakes up earlier than that (5-6) then I feed her and put her back to bed.

Naps at 9ish and 1ish. Eats three meals a day and breastfeeds 4 times a day. She takes a sippy of water sometimes but mostly just makes a mess of it. I am trying to find a sippy that is spill proof that might work well for her to start transitioning to some milk soon.

Races all around the house, crawling into every nook and cranny. As soon as a door opens for a new room, she is rushing over to investigate. Loves putting things in her mouth. Loves pulling things from cabinets, buckets, drawers, etc.

She is everyone's little buddy. Everyone loves to talk and play with her. She is so happy and easygoing each day. Sometimes I get caught up on the fact that I don't track her dvelopment and do things like baby sign with her (like I did with Elsie) but mostly I am just happy that she is a happy and healthy little girl and is so very loved!

 

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