Emilie Mae- Eleven Months!

Miss smiles-all-the-time, happiest-baby-ever Emilie Mae is eleven months old.  Other than charming and smiling, here's what she spends her days doing.   

* She has four teeth, and more popping through.  What a trooper.  She got them all at once.  

* She is cruising all over the place and really doesn't like to sit down.  The girl wants to walk to badly, but isn't quite confident enough yet to let go.  I think it will be a few more months.  

* She is starting to assert herself a little bit more.  When Marin takes away her toy, she puts up a fight.  Most of the time Marin is good about asking her, "May I please have this Emilie?"  But since Emilie can't say,  "No", Marin assumes the answer is always "Of course, please take my one toy that was making me happy!" :)  We'll see how this shakes down when they want to share clothes one day.  

* She is making a little "eh! eh!" sound when she wants something.  We're continuing to work on her sign language to help her communicate.  I have to say, "eh! eh! eh!" wears on my pretty quickly. 

*Emilie loves storytime and she loves to wave and clap! She loves to read books and sing songs and "socialize" with the other children in her class.

* Emilie loves to dance.  She bops up and down and shakes her right little leg.  She and her sister have the moves, man!  

*She's obsessed with phones.  She wants to push every button and pretend to make a call.  

* Emilie is getting better at eating people food.  I stuck my neck out there and gave her bites big enough that she can actually taste, and she seems to be doing a little better.  We're still doing baby food, but introducing more and more "real" food too.  She loves black beans, bananas and quinoa.  By far her favorite!

* She's still sleeping like a champ.  When she wakes up in the morning she's standing up in her crib waiting for us to come and get her.   Marin loves to go wake her up as well, and Emilie always reaches for her with a giant smile.  The two of them are thick as thieves.   

Emilie is a sweet little snuggler and my little love bug.  Her smile warms our hearts instantly, and when she leans in for an open mouthed kiss, it's the very best!  I can't believe that she's going to be one.  That is just insane to me.  Wasn't she just born?!  She's a true joy and I'm loving ever second with her.