I can't believe it. My baby's first birthday is only 1 month away!! What the what?? Yep. There is only 1 more Sticky Bellies sticker for our monthly photo shoots. Only 1 more month to buy formula. Only 1 more month to call my baby a baby(yeah right, I'll always call her baby)….at 12 months she enters the world of toddler. This brings a complexity of emotions. The excitement of planning her birthday party is, at the moment, outweighing my sadness and tendency to be overly sentimental.
Thinking back to one year ago, we were just finishing up buying all the baby gear, and completing the nursery. Now we are chasing around our hilarious, almost toddler! In this sense, the year has flown by in the blink of an eye. But thinking back to being big-as-a-whale pregnant... it is all a distant memory. It is true what they say, mother nature has a way of making you forget the aches and pains of pregnancy and labor, so that you can do it all again. I am missing the sensation of baby kicks and twirls inside my belly, but then I remember sleep and how much I love getting a full night's worth. LOL Seriously though, we do want to give Avery a sibling sooner rather than later, but we are enjoying letting her be the baby for a little while longer.
This month, not much has changed with Ave. She is still refusing to stand unassisted, but we have seen that she CAN, when we kind of trick her into it. She wants to walk everywhere and drags us around from our fingertips with a death grip on them, refusing to even try to let go. But that's ok. I don't know when it'll be the last time…the last time that she needs me to help her walk across the floor. I joke about her reaching this milestone so slowly, but really she is right in the normal range. It is just surprising when she reached the other physical milestones so early. Soon enough though, I know she will let go and not look back. She will be running around and climbing everything in sight.
Verbally, Avery is making new noises and sounds every day. She says "Dada" "Ab-dog" "Key-Cat" (kitty cat) "Oh!" "BAH" (Bottle, bye and bite), "Omma"('Momma' but only when she is really upset) and she will randomly repeat things we say like "Hello" "Stop it" , "Uh-Oh" and "Okay" to name a few. I feel like she is just going to start spitting out full sentences one day!
Some of Avery's favorite things at 11 months are blueberries, bananas, mandarin oranges, crackers, singing, dancing, taking walks, petting Abby, crawling all over mom and dad's bed, Curious George, playing "tag" around the house, looking in the mirror, snuggling her blankets, making funny noises, peek-a-boo, playing maracas, reading, puzzles, all other babies, pillows, shoes, giving kisses, climbing everything she can, watching tv, and being a drama queen.
Some stuff Avery dislikes at 11 months are being told "no", when fun things are over, and bedtime, recently.
This month Avery has been getting over being sick. She is also still in a very high separation anxiety phase and an adjustment period of me going back to work and has been teething again on top of it all, so needless to say, we have had a few sleepless nights. Although it leaves me tired, I do love rocking that sweet baby, even if it's in the middle of a school night. It's those moments that I just want to freeze and remember forever. Again, I never know when it'll be the last time, so I just try to cherish those times she is crying, because she just needs her Mama. Except when it happens every hour and a half for the night and I can't physically open my eyes again, then it is Dada's turn!
This weekend she cut 2 new teeth though, so maybe this week will be better! She has 6 teeth now. Four on the bottom and two on the top, and her top gums look swollen too! This baby is growing so fast!!
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