ava mae: 11 months

our big girl is 11 months old! (sob!!) actually, she's 11 months and 10 days old...the bigger she gets, the harder it is to find time to blog.

ava is wearing size 12M-18M clothes, but 18M fits better, and wearing a size 4 diaper.  i don't know what she weighs or her length right now, but we have her 1 year appt soon and they will give us the updates then.  if i had to guess on weight, i would say close to 22-23 lbs?  and she's really tall too!

she is such a busy, active girl. she's been crawling since about 9 months, but now she's LIGHTNING fast and pulling up on everything. she's cruising along furniture and can go from a sit to a squat without help.  she's still not quite standing without help, but i feel like that will come any day now.  she dances anytime there is a good beat, and its so cute to see her bobbing her head along to the music.

she's just recently getting in more teeth.  she only had her bottom two for the longest time, but the tooth fairy opened the flood gates, and literally in the past couple weeks she's gotten in her top tooth on the right, the one next to that, and then also a bottom tooth.  she's cutting them left and right and its crazy how quickly they are all coming in!

she's eating mainly table foods, and she especially enjoys spaghetti-os, strawberries, watermelon, and peas are still a fav.  she eats three solid meals a day with a couple of snacks (puffs, yogurt bites) thrown in.  i am not pumping at work anymore, and she nurses about once a day, sometimes twice, but her main source of milk is formula at this point.  it was a hard transition for me, but i am so happy to not be pumping anymore and so proud that she got mainly breast milk for over 10 months.

she's sleeping pretty well, all things considered.  of course the teething throws things off, but on a  typical night she goes down at about 7PM, sleeps til about 10 and wants another bottle or to nurse, and then sleeps til about 6:30-7am.  on a bad night she's still only up one additional time, which i don't mind.  i usually give her some teething tablets and a bottle/nurse, and she's back asleep in 15-20 minutes.

she can clap, wave, and i am pretty sure her first word was "bye-bye"!!  she kind if mimics you when you say that, but only when she feels like it.  its pretty sporadic, but i am counting that as her first word.  other than that, she says "oh" (not sure if she knows the meaning) BABABABA is a favorite, and she still babbles/screams a lot.

she's very smart and can figure things out quickly. she has a lunchbox toy that she will open and take out her red apple---every.single.time.  she also has a bouncy ball toy which has multiple colored balls, and she always, without fail, picks out the red one.  she loves that color!  she loves to sing songs with momma, and a favorite is the ABCs and itsy bitsy spider.

we love our sweet, active girl and cannot believe she's going to be ONE YEAR in just a few short weeks!