Lillian is 11 Months!

Eleven Months! Our little girl is so big and advanced. She toddles all over the place and has been saying 'puh' for up for a couple months. She says it with intention, only says it when she wants up and gets pissed if you ignore her. We've talked about it and decided that we are going to call it her first word. The decision was prompted by the emergence of her second word - dog. Strangers can tell she's saying it and, again, she only says it when she sees a dog (or when she sees a squirrel which apparently looks like a dog to her - not a lion like Simon always thought).

She can easily reach the door knob. 

Here is a snapshot of Lillian right now:

1. Toddling/Walking more often instead of crawling. She is getting pretty sturdy on her feet and will walk all around while holding onto things. Definitely we've graduated into a toddler phase. She still will crawl or hands-and-feet-crawl if she wants to get someplace quickly but more and more often is choosing to walk instead of crawl. 
2. Sleep schedule: Bed at 5:45pm, sleeps until 6ish in the morning (I think she would sleep until 7 but we usually have a loud 3 year old who wakes her up). Naps 9a-11a and rarely takes an afternoon nap. We're going to transition her to 1 nap soon I think.
3. She is always settling herself to sleep now. If she is super tired and you're holding her near her crib she will wiggle and try to get down so she can just go to sleep already - skip the song! 
4. Eating: She still takes bottles of formula regularly throughout the day, nurses first thing when waking up and just before going to sleep, and eats a ton of solids as well. Most of her solids are finger foods at this point, though she will occasionally eat purees still. 
5. She eats everything. We haven't found anything that she dislikes yet. If given chicken and broccoli and cheerios she eats them in that order. All her food is seasoned and pretty much off our plate - so, for example, she eats scrambled eggs with pepper, cheese and Tabasco just like we do.
6. She still loves her brother, but has realized that she also loves EVERYONE. She is waves constantly as we walk down the street - at every man, woman and child, at every dog and sometimes at trees too. 
7. Lillian loves climbing. She goes up on a kid sized chair and back down with no issues and has for months, she climbs up stairs (we don't let her try going down so I don't know if she can do that, but I have faith she'd figure it out quickly). She climbs up and over all obstacles in her way - parent's legs or parent's faces it makes no difference! 
8. She loves music and when she hears it she bops her head and rocks her body to the beat. 
9. She is really trying to talk. Says 'puh' for up and says 'og' for dog. Both are now words that strangers are thinking are intention to talk, so they count! Word page in the other tab is started as of now! 
10. Signs: She is really into this signing thing. She has more, down and milk solidly, and will occasionally say hungry (more a shoved hand against her mouth) or drink (which is about the same). She waves hello/goodbye, will high five, has started blowing kisses. We've been doing change diaper, bird, all-done, book and a few others that she watches closely and is trying to do and I think she'll have in the next few weeks.
11. She has a great disposition. She is usually super happy and chatty and loves to smile and laugh. She loves strangers and will wave frantically at them. If they smile or wave back she usually has to pause and consider them a bit more before she returns to waving. Pretty reliably we can count on her only fussing when there's a problem (she's hungry or tired). 
12. She loves the tickle bug and to be tickled. We take a few minutes every night to do some laughing together before nursing and bed time and it's always her crawling laughing and me either tickle bug tickling her or flipping her over to tickle her neck. She laughs hysterically for both. 
13. She is still putting everything into her mouth. EVERYTHING.
14. She sleeps with piglet and a purple little hippo-blanket and two pacifiers. 
15. She plays with cars, balls, and laughs with joy when presented with a baby doll. She loves it when stuffed animals wave at her. Regardless of what she's doing, if Simon appears to want to play with her she will drop everything to play with him.
16. Simon and Lillian play a few games together. She will chase him a little and he runs away laughing. They play peek-a-boo pretty often together and will also play 'Where's Simon'. She's quite good at finding him. 

Lots more pictures after the jump.