Thursday, January 27, 2011

Claire is 11 months

My baby girl is one month shy of a year. What a wonderful 11 months it has been. She is still so sweet and happy. She is just such an easy going, mild tempered little girl. She is getting more attached to Joe and I, but we can still leave the room and she does not freak out.

That being said, she is making up for all the time she slept in that swing as a newborn (until about 6 months) and had Joe and I asking "when is she going to wake up?". She has woken up!! Claire is into EVERYTHING. She prefers to dig in closets, empty cabinets, play in toilets and sprint up stairs. Of course, laughing all the way. We "baby proofed" when we moved here and Evan was 12 months old, but he never got into anything. I would purposely open cabinets to let him know, they were "his" and he could go to town. He could have cared less. So, 3 years later, here we are, frantically baby-proofing. Cabinets are being locked, tutorials on shutting toilet seats and closets are ongoing and we are on high alert.

Some updates on Claire:
Weight: 24.5 pounds
Height & Head Circ: we go to the doctor again after her 1st birthday, so I don't know
Favorite book: Touch and Feel Wild Animals, any book with faces of other babies
Songs: She and Evan are LOVING their Best of Laurie Berkener CD Claire got for Christmas; "If you are happy and you know it"
TV: Thankfully still doesn't pay attention to the TV that is sometimes constantly playing educational television Scooby Doo, Star Wars or some Wii game
Clothes: 18 mo pants, 18 mo dresses, 24 month shirts and one pieces
Shoes: size 5
Diapers: size 4
Teeth: 7 (3 up top, 4 on the bottom)

Movement: Crawls everywhere, expert at climbing up the stairs, learning how to descend the stairs, pulls up to stand everywhere she can, cruising
Loves: Evan, Joe, going outside in her stroller, car or walker, and loves being "tackled by Evan", climbing the stairs, pulling toys out of baskets
Words: No new words, still "mama, dada, baba, Evaaaa, hi"
Skills: Waves hello and goodbye, sometimes accompanied by the word "hi", loves to clap, likes to "dance to music"
Food: Eats 3 meals a day and 4 6-ounce bottles a day (know I need to cut one out, but it's so easy.......).
Favorite Breakfast: Oatmeal with syrup, bananas and blueberries
Favorite Lunch: lunch meat (ham or chicken) and cheese and yogurt
Favorite Dinner: veggies, tofu, chicken, pasta
Snacks: applesauce, cereal bars
What!!, who feeds this to a baby? (but she loves it): ice cream, milk shakes
Sippy cup: She likes to drink out of it, sadly, she doesn't love it in place of her bottle. But we are getting there. This is all Joe's territory, he's good at the sippy cup transition!
Favorite toys: Fisher Price House, all bath toys, leap frog table, stairs, random things on the ground like crumbs, dirt and leaves, the stairs


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