11 months
Emmaline is 11 months old. My gosh, where is the time going!! Only 25 more days until her first birthday. For some reason that's just so crazy to me. I feel like I'm already mourning the loss of her babyhood. The last week or so, I've been soaking up all the sweet cuddly baby time I can.
No, it's not like she's going to turn 1 and she's no longer my baby, but it just seems like such a huge milestone and it sort of makes me sad. I need pause button. Or even rewind!
She's so incredibly mobile at this point. Her crawling is super fast and she cruises all over the place. Nothing within her reach is safe now! And she's discovered the baby walker. When that thing is within her site, all she wants to do is walk around behind it. Here's a video of her with it from a couple of weeks ago. She's actually way faster with it now. She walks right along with it in a cute, dare I say, toddley fashion!
She doesn't really say any words yet. She babbles a lot and says mamamama and dadadada, but it's hard to know if she associates anything. I sign to her somewhat intermittently, but she hasn't picked up on that yet, either. She does wave bye-bye (sort of) and also reaches towards stuff she wants and generally makes other wishes known. Oh, she also claps now sometimes.
Last weekend we went and visited my grandma (Emmaline's great-grandma) for her 90th birthday. She has met Emmaline once before, but it was nice for them to see each other again. While we were there, I held Emmaline up next to a photo of my grandpa and they look so much alike! It's the eyebrows, we both have my grandpa's eyebrows. I wish he could have met her.
No, it's not like she's going to turn 1 and she's no longer my baby, but it just seems like such a huge milestone and it sort of makes me sad. I need pause button. Or even rewind!
She's so incredibly mobile at this point. Her crawling is super fast and she cruises all over the place. Nothing within her reach is safe now! And she's discovered the baby walker. When that thing is within her site, all she wants to do is walk around behind it. Here's a video of her with it from a couple of weeks ago. She's actually way faster with it now. She walks right along with it in a cute, dare I say, toddley fashion!
She doesn't really say any words yet. She babbles a lot and says mamamama and dadadada, but it's hard to know if she associates anything. I sign to her somewhat intermittently, but she hasn't picked up on that yet, either. She does wave bye-bye (sort of) and also reaches towards stuff she wants and generally makes other wishes known. Oh, she also claps now sometimes.
Last weekend we went and visited my grandma (Emmaline's great-grandma) for her 90th birthday. She has met Emmaline once before, but it was nice for them to see each other again. While we were there, I held Emmaline up next to a photo of my grandpa and they look so much alike! It's the eyebrows, we both have my grandpa's eyebrows. I wish he could have met her.