We've been so busy lately that we haven't managed to put together a post for Emily's 11 month birthday until today. We are honestly enjoying every minute with her and have found that this time in her development is a lot of fun. She is still growing, happy, eating well, and smiling a lot.
- One of the first things to happen right after our last blog post was that Emily had a big fall at daycare. She tried to stand up while pulling up on a folding chair which fell down and hit her on the forehead right between the eyes. She had a very big bruise and lump on her forehead for a couple weeks and now, 6 weeks later, you can still see a slight bump if you look at her profile.
- We've had lots of visitors in February, starting with Aunt Rachel, Aunt Julia, and Grandpa Joe coming to visit the first weekend in February. She had the most fun playing with Grandpa Joe's mustache and making noise with Aunt Rachel's water bottle.
- Then Emily got sick with some sort of cold virus that gave her a fever and a runny nose. She had it for several days, passed it to Mommy and to Daddy. Then it either just went away for a couple days or Emmy and Mommy got a second virus, but it seems like we were sick for at least two weeks! No fun!
- Granny Jan and Grandpa Tom came to visit in mid-February and got to see Emmy pulling up on everything and scaling the stairs every chance she got.
- She seems to be losing some weight from her constant movement and crawling. She walks along the couch and from one piece of furniture to another. She can walk really well if we hold both of her hands, but hasn't tried to take a step on her own yet. She can bend down to pick things up while standing and holding on to something, she does lots of "squats." She will probably be in 18 month size clothing for awhile.
- Speaking of constant movement, at the end of the month we flew to and from Arizona to visit Nana Ellen and Grandpa Lee. On the plane rides Emily didn't sleep but for 45 minutes on the way there while in Megan's arms. She was very interested in all of the people, lights, buttons, and especially the magazines in the seatbacks. Even with that disruption, she slept and and adjusted well in Arizona.
- In Arizona, Emily spent a lot of time outside and played on a playground, went for walks with the family, and especially liked the orange tree in the back yard.
- She got her bottom two teeth in the first week of February and her top two teeth in the end of February. Now that she has these four teeth this week she has been grinding them together a bit. The sound is awful, so we really hope it's just temporary since they are so new. She still sucks her thumb when she first go to sleep for a nap or at night.
- We mistakenly thought her new teeth were causing her to have a fever but after a trip to the doctor we found out that she had a virus that affected her for about a week...until she got another cold/virus for a second week.
- She is increasingly interested in our food and has small bites of soft foods each day at daycare. We are feeding her pureed meat at dinner every night and give her things like fruits, vegetables, and pastas when we can. She's also starting to take some of her formula in her sippy cup and we hope to start to transition to regular milk in the next few weeks.
- Emily has become much more vocal after a short period when she didn't say much. It seems like she's now trying to put sounds and "words" together. She intentionally says "dada" to Tom. And she loves to just babble to herself constantly.
- She also points at everything. She does it in coordination with her sounds. For example, every time we are in her bedroom she points up to her stuffed animals that hang in a net in the corner while saying "da". Thanks to all of our friends and family who provided those for her.
- Her naps haven't changed much but she has proven that she can have shorter naps or even go without her morning nap and make it through the day pretty well. But on a normal day she still will nap for around 3 hours total between the two naps and sleep for 12 hours at night.
- We like going on walks at the "dead mall" in town on Sundays and are happy that spring is coming, we have taken a few walks outside already.
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