11 Months

" Mom...Seriously?!?" The first of many 'looks' I'm sure

Rowan is already 11 months! Just to look back at when she was 9 months, so much has changed since then. I am constantly amazed at how quickly she changes and learns new behaviors. She is still pulling up on everything, and can stand by herself for a short amount of time (10 seconds or so), and can walk along a chair or table while holding on to it. She just loves opening and closing doors so I let her have her own cabinet in the kitchen that she can play with. She has a little barn toy that has a door that she can open and close and crawl through. Music comes on and the song "Old McDonald" plays and she tries to sing "eieiooooo" along with it...that just cracks me up. She is saying a few more words, she picked up "hot" while we were in Lake Tahoe and it is clearly her favorite. Its the first word she says in the morning and anytime I try to teach her a new word, its only "hot". She loves the t sound. She also recently learned to say "up" and so she likes to say that too.

She is still eating up a storm and will let everyone around know that she is enjoying her yummy food. She is the loudest eater ever! One thing that I have been trying to work with her on is trying to get her to drink from a sippy cup. As we all know, she does like to be fed her bottle by her mama, so I am having a bit of a struggle with that. The doctor last visit told me to start weaning her from the bottle so that we can get rid of them on her first birthday...but we might have to delay that, we'll see.

She likes the little push cart that my parents got her for Christmas, but she is not too keen on walking yet. I am really not trying to push her into it, just letting her figure it out on her own.

She also is starting to understand the "restricted" parts of the house too. Since Grant works from home, I try to keep half of the house closed off for him so that his clients dont hear a loud baby while he is on the phone. We usually stay in the living room/kitchen area where her bedroom is and I shut the door to our room and the hallway. Our bedroom door can shut, but can be pushed open with a little force which Rowan has figured out. She opens the door by herself and barely crawls in our room. She stops and waits for me to say, "Rowan? What are you doing? No..." and that is when the giggling and screaming starts while she feverently crawls at her top speed toward Grants office, loving that I am chasing her. Of course, Grant loves it and she really never bothers him (I say that now, we will see in another couple of months). But it is so funny how she loves to be chased and also knows when she is doing something that she shouldn't be doing. I guess we have a bit of a rebel on our hands? Not surprising at all!

We are truly having so much fun with her and can't wait for her birthday!