eleven

my baby is 11 months old.

and she is a nut. she always has us laughing.

i'll try to keep it short since the pictures are the best part, anyway.

she has 2 bottom teeth and, i think, is working the 2 top ones.

she weighs about 18 pounds and is definitely growing. she is actually fitting into some 9 month and 6-12 month clothes, yay!

i tried to take some pictures and the tongue is out in almost all of them.

this one is my fave...

jd and i were cracking up at this one!

sophie love, love, LOVES dogs.

she loves her jammies that have dogs.

she says puppy and gets really excited everytime she sees them.

this is what we call the soph-hawk

she likes to read in the tub. really, she just loves the tub.

sophie and her new backpack that she thinks is a puppy.

everything is a puppy or a baby. her 2 favorite things.

standing all by herself. in one of her christmas dresses.

hello, bedhead.

our little turtle. a little explanation...she was trying to climb out of her high chair to the laptop when jd was taking her out. we wanted to see what she would do (don't worry, we were standing close by). she got onto her hand and knees and crawled across the counter with her high chair strapped to her back. we were laughing so hard, which she thought was funny!

sophie loves to dance. especially to vampire weekend's holiday. ya know, the one on the honda commercials? she goes nuts. emi and soph had a dance party and were lettin loose.

on thanksgiving we watched daddy run a 5k. it was super cold. soph was wrapped up in like 4 layers.

we waited in the car most of the time so we didn't freeze. how do you entertain an 11 month old in the car for 30 minutes? let her play in the driver's seat, of course. she kept trying to get the keys and accidentally honking the horn and scaring herself.

the stairs. i should have thought about this a little more when we bought the house. the stairs are a daily battle. she is really good at going up and down. it's just getting turned around to go down. she tries to go down head first. luckily, she hasn't fallen down the stairs...yet. she kind of rolled down the first one the other day, but it think it scared her enough she hasn't tried it again.

sophie is doing really well walking. she still holds onto things occasionally, but has been really brave in letting go and just going for it. she doesn't even mind if she falls. she just gets right back up and keeps going.

she is getting more independent all the time. she like to do things herself and she doesn't like to be forced into things...like getting her diaper changed, getting her nose wiped, drinking her bottle or getting dressed.

she is really a pretty happy girl and loves to play and squeal. as i mentioned before, she LOVES puppies. anything to do with them. and she will tell you when she sees one. she calls the reindeer on her jammies puppies, too.

she is talking more, too. she jabbers all day long. she has added kitty (which i haven't witnessed), hi, and pa pa (grandpa) to her vocabulary. i swear sometimes she says sophie, thank you, and all done. who knows!

love you my little soph, and can't believe it's almost your birthday!