11 Months Old

Oh my god girl, you are 11 months old today!!!

It feels like a lot has happened recently. You have done a lot of growing up.

Since you started cruising, your new sense of balance + desire to climb has seen safety gates go up and your cotbed get lowered. You are much more confident on your feet. You stand up, squat down, move between pieces of furniture, walk holding our hands, clamber on & over everything (including Dexter) and basically just go wherever you want!

Our weaning journey seems to have come on leaps & bounds in the last few weeks. Milk has been cut right down and you are a lot happier to try new things. The messier the better! And after so long refusing to entertain the idea water, you guzzle it like there is no tomorrow.

Although you started clapping aaaaaaages ago, no matter how hard we tried, you just refused to wave. However, a couple of weeks ago you finally waved for the first time.... and now we get hello's and bye-bye's all the time.

You chatter and babble in such adorable new ways.

And in addition to mama, dada, and uh-oh, we have a new word....

Dexter! (well, sort of)

I mean, it is a tough name to pronounce and it took ages before even he could say it clearly... but whenever you see your brother you call him dedah. The first time, I put it down to coincidence, but you do it all the time now. It's so sweet and Dexter praises you whenever he hears you say it <3

Lately, when I've been out & about and seen new mums pushing their babies around in their pushchairs, I wonder where the hell this time has gone. That was me only a few months ago. What happened?? I want to go back. I get slightly jealous knowing that it will never be me again. I aren't going to lie, the past 11 months haven't been without their difficult times, but I feel that your personality is really starting to emerge now... just in time for me going back to work and missing out on it all (although it's only part time right now so we still get more time together than apart.)

You never promised to make it easy for us, but you definitely make it worth it xx