Every month I vow to get these monthly posts for Lana up on time, and so far I continue to fail miserably. For example, Lana turned 11 months old last Saturday. Let’s see, that was only what, 10 days ago? Geez. At least I got it up before she got closer to 12 months than to 11 months, right?
We still haven’t had another well-check for official measurement stats, as that comes at 12 months. And I feel like there isn’t a whole ton of new stuff to report this month – she just keeps growing and getting funnier and funnier.
One huge thing that did happen this month, however, was walking!! She took her first actual continuous steps 1 day before her 11 month birthday, and I could not have been more excited. She had taken a couple half or single steps in the days leading up to that, but this was full-on walking partially across the room to me. Baby Frankenstein in full effect.
She’s been great at standing and balancing on her own for a while now, so instead of putting her down on the floor in a sitting position I’ve begun putting her down more often in a standing position, and I think that was her cue to start taking off. That and the fact that Della and I were crouched across the room cheering her on. Della loves to coax her over to her now too, which is one of the cutest things ever. But as I sit here typing this, I am drawing a complete blank on in which room these first steps occurred. Can you even believe that?! Man, my memory is shot. I knew I should have gotten the video camera out! Ugh, terrible mothering. I seriously can’t believe I can’t remember this. What is wrong with me? I’m pretty sure it was the dining room, but for some reason the details are completely escaping me! At least we can get her to do it pretty much all over the place now. And I still remember the first time she rolled over. Does that count for anything?
Aside from walking, though, things are pretty much status quo. She still gets into everything, puts anything possible in her mouth, and is loud as can be. Her talking gets funnier every day too, with the variety of sounds that come out of her mouth. I called her first word “hi”, complete with waving. She now waves and says “buh-bye” too, which is great.
I’ve been trying to teach her a little baby sign language, too – so far she can do “more”, “all done”, “milk”, and we’re working on “eat” and “please”. She’s been really good at “milk”, “more”, and “all done”. I just taught her “milk” last week, and she caught onto that one really quickly.
She feeds herself basically everything now, and her range of foods is really good – bananas, oranges, apples with no skin, sweet potatoes cut up, peaches, pears, grapes (quartered), blueberries, cheese, chicken nuggets, any steamed/mixed vegetables, beans, Cheerios, any other dry cereals, pancakes, waffles, Goldfish, Teddy Grahams, all snack crackers, eggs, and then of course anything that still needs to be fed to her like applesauce, cottage cheese, yogurt, etc. I’m such a non-lover of having to spoon feed, though, that I usually take the easy route and give her all finger foods.
One big food-related event was switching over to whole milk already. I said that whenever we ran out of the last tub of formula we were on after she turned 11 months that was going to be her last one, and I stuck to it. I thawed the last 8 bags of breastmilk I had in the basement freezer as we started getting low on formula, so that helped supplement those last couple days, then we switched over to all whole milk last week after she turned 11 months. Hooray! She also drinks from a sippy cup very well. So far I’ve only given her water in it, but hopefully that will translate easily to milk when the time comes.
Here are the posterity stats again – size 12-18 months in clothes with a couple 9 month things left, size 3 daytime diapers, size 4 nighttime diapers, and around size 2 in shoes I think. Her favorite ones right now are little soft-soled ones, so I don’t think they really have a size besides “infant”.
Despite my lack of punctuality on getting this posted, I did actually take the time to do her 11 month collage the right way this time. Ta-da!
And then here are L and D in their side-by-side; Della on the left, Lana on the right. For those really curious as well, here is Della’s 11 month post for even more comparison. These 2 little beans are simply the greatest.
