Claire at 11 Months

It's that time again to give a nice little update on our little monkey.

1. She loves going up...and now DOWN the stairs! Didn't know she could go down until the other day. I saw her doing it and thought to myself: "um...never seen that before. Is our child a genius? We never taught her that! Then...I talked to Jordan. "I've been teaching her that for a couple of weeks now!" he said." Whatever. I will teach him to be teaching her things behind my back!! JK. :)

2. Claire LOVES treats. Chocolate, candy, cookies, etc. AND as you can tell from a previous post, her Mama gives them to her ALL THE TIME! She should be shot for such poor mothering, but...well, I guess people don't want her dead. Anyway, In this picture below, Claire has an ENTIRELY WRAPPED Hershey's Kiss in her mouth (can't blame her, it's the white chocolate-oreo one! BEST ones, besides the white chocolate peppermint!) and is greedily grabbing as many kisses as she could get into her miniature hands! Classic smile. LOVE it.

3. Claire says "mama" all the time. I'm still not sure if she knows that I AM Mama, or maybe she thinks the "milk supply" is Mama. Nevertheless, she knows that word is associated with me! I am LUCKY btw. She does NOT say Dada yet!! I'm trying to teach her, you know, to be nice and all... (sorry Honey)

But look how she loves her Daddy :) awww...

5. Claire has been walking for some time now. ASSISTED. That's the key word :) But at least now, we can walk with her holding just ONE of her hands. She grabs on for dear life, to be sure, but it's progress!! She also stands on her own now too! And she loves pushing her little cart-thingie around... (disregard my dumb commentary...)

6. Claire can do the motion for "bye bye." It's sooooooooooooo cute. She simply opens and closes her little hand (only the right hand btw.). We used to have to do the motion with our hands first and then she'd imitate, but now she does it when we say the words! So cute! Jordan says she's started "nodding" her head. I don't know about that....

7. She's a little ham. Think I've mentioned that. But she now throws TANTRUMS. I used to be able to take things away from her and it was no big deal. NOW she arches her back, cries, etc. etc. It's fun.

8. Claire has now officially shifted to a one nap schedule. Yes, the wonderful days of 2 naps are over. The best part was Mommy going back to bed when Claire did 2 hours after she woke up. Now, she goes down at 11 and sleeps til 2pm.

9. Claire has a mouth FULL of teeth. Seriously. Every time I think a "teething period" is over, out pops a new one! We've gone through 3 BOTTLES of Motrin. I feel like a drug pusher! Seriously! I don't know why people make this HUGE FUSS about sleep schedules because seriously, they get disrupted every other week by teething, so why bother?