I am almost two weeks late on this post. Anika turned 11 months on December 14th.
I don't get on the computer very much anymore. It is tricky to keep up with Anika and
keep up with documenting her growth, progress, and mess-making.
Our big little girl is 11 months old. She is so much fun and so funny! And she is walking!! December 19th
is the day she walked across our bedroom several times without help and without falling (at least
not very quickly). December 26th is the day she started toddling all over the place, turning around,
coming back, etc., etc. Sometimes she just laughs and laughs as she walks around.
Mess-maker, mess-maker, make me a mess...
She is holding my hairspray while she crawls around. She loves to hold things whether she is eating, crawling, being carried, sleeping, nursing, in the car, or in the stroller. She also likes to push things
around that slide like books, her upside down bumbo tray, and all sorts of other things.
Her most common crawl is with one knee out to the side. For a while she had some sort of
Michael Jordan tongue thing going on while she crawled.
Lately Anika has been taking things off, and then she tries to put them back on. She will take off
her bow, headband, hat or sock, and then try to put it back on. She will also take off Nathaniel's
sunglasses and try to put them back on him. Anika is usually helpful when we put her jacket on.
She will put her arms out, and even switch whatever she may be holding to her other hand so
She has started playing the piano. She can reach things that are on the edge of our
dressers, bed and table. She also likes to turn pages while we read books.
Anika really wanted some of the apple we were eating, so we let her try a piece.
Some of the new foods she has tried lately include mango, blueberries, pineapple,
liverwurst, lamb, and rutabagas. She loves to eat.
She likes to open and stand by our junk drawer and pull things out and,
without even looking, drop them to the floor.
She also loves to pull out the bags...
and the clothes from the dryer as I try to load it.
