11 Months Old

Hannah turned 11 months old and started consistently standing on her own the same day!  It is so cute to watch her stand and see the joy and pride on her little face!!!  This past month was a busy one with our trip down to Atlanta.  It seems like each month brings so many changes, it's hard to keep up with them all!!!  Hannah now pushes her walking toy around with ease.  She absolutely loves to be a big girl walking behind it!!  She just started going from a squatting position to a standing, and letting go consistently happened right around the same time (right at 11 months).  She started this month loving to put things in and take things out of just about anything.  Laundry baskets, diaper bag, purse, toy box...nothing is safe with this girl!!!  A mess follows where ever she goes, but it's so cute and she thinks she is pretty funny while doing it!!  She throws her stuffed animals out of her crib when she wakes up in the morning and from naps, and pulls all of the books off her bookshelf.  She has started to really enjoy looking at books.  She has very little patience for me to read them to her, but she LOVES to "read" them outloud to herself.  She picks up just about anything and holds it to her ear like a telephone.  If a phone rings, she will hold her hand up to ear.  It's like she is saying, "pick up the phone already mom!!!"  It's so cute to watch her learn.  Hannah is very good at waving.  She will wave to anyone and gets a very confused/offended look on her face when they do not notice her and wave back.  Often when people do see her and wave back, she turns her head and gets very bashful.  Hannah furrows her brow a lot.  I think it's an inquisitive little gesture and is often accompanied by little noises that sound like they end in a ?.  Hannah is eating like a champ.  She really loves most everything.  She has started to be willing to eat off a spoon again for certain things.  This is great to me because now she will eat yogurt again!  And if we are out to eat she will get less messy eating her hummus.  She definitely prefers to feed herself though.  I don't think we've introduced anything new this month, just continuing with more of the same.  She is still an awesome sleeper!  She has started staying awake while I nurse her at bedtime, and easily falls asleep on her own in her crib.  I'm very excited about this because I'm hoping this will help making the weaning process easier!!!  She still naps great as well.  Hannah is definitely growing like a weed!  Some of her 12 month clothes are getting a little short in the torso and she can now wear some 18 month stuff as well.  Again I don't know how big she is, but I would guess that she's definitely over 30 inches tall and nearing 24 lbs.  Enjoy the pictures from the past month!!