11 months

This girl will not slow down. I can't believe that she is almost one year old! Walking a couple of steps just a couple of weeks ago has now turned into walking half way across the room.  A brisk pace is completely normal for her. I think she is trying to run. She still will crawl places but walking has become her preferred mode of transportation.

She still loves the dog and now will say "Dog. Woof Woof." She will also say "cracker" although that sounds more like "cr-ckr". She has even said, "bye-bye" while waving. She has also said "Liam" and "JJ" (the other baby at the babysitters). She loves to give kisses (open mouthed slobbery ones) and enjoys reading her 'Huggy Kissy' book. Her Alphabet book has become a favorite as well.

We are now nursing just twice a day. Once in the morning and once before bed. She has started drinking whole milk with some hesitation. But I am completely out of all of the breast milk that I had pumped throughout these last 11 months and at work I was only getting 2-3 ounces at each pumping break which really wasn't enough for the 4-6 ounces that she would drink while I was away. So, we introduced the whole milk a month early. She isn't super excited about it and while at the babysitters if she sees the other baby getting a bottle she gets a bit upset that she doesn't get one as well. I feel that she is going to hold onto nursing longer than Caroline did. While I'm ok with that I'm also ready to be done. (I nursed Liam until 16 months and Caroline was done right about 12 months) But I will try to remember that this is it. Our last baby. She enjoys nursing. And in the middle of the night it's the only thing that will get her to go back to sleep. That is pretty special.

Sleeping has been going well though. It's the rare occasion now that Lucy wakes in the middle of the night. She now goes to bed between 7:30-8 pm and doesn't wake until around 7 am.

Napping is still happening twice a day during the week but on the weekends most of the time we consolidate to just one nap.

Lucy is a great eater. What she is not great at is being patient or using her baby sign language on a consistent basis. She really likes to scream while in her highchair. We really don't like it when she screams in her highchair. We are really trying to work with her to use her sign language to tell us what she wants. 'More', 'Drink', 'Please', 'Thank you' and 'All done' are all signs that we are currently attempting to use.

The baby time is winding down. We are moving into toddler world in just a few weeks! My little one is almost one!