SO the BIG News is our little girl is now, WALKING!! 2 weeks before she turned 11 months, she took steps..and now its walking... her still major transportation is crawling.. but she enjoys walking and walks any chance she can get! To add to the walking, Addison also knows how to climb stairs! Not sure how she figured it out, considering we don't have stairs and our daycare has stairs in her basement - leading down to the family room, but that room is off limits to her daycare children. Somehow, though she figured it out and she will go up them over and over, obviously has not figured out how to go down steps, so you have to be with her at all times, but she is a master at them... WHO KNEW!! HAHA! Our OTHER BIG News is she cut her 2 bottom teeth! YUP! She finally now has teeth!
We have really started to notice Addison's personality this past month. She is a very happy child, however very SHY! It takes a good bit for her to open up, not that immediate smiles upon greeting NEW people, has to almost investigate you before she will open up and be friendly, but .. haha we have discovered that she likes boys/guys! Poor Dad, is not soo thrilled! She definitely has alot of Stephen in her when it comes to being shy and not willing to just go to anyone. She definitely is Strong willed though and unfortunately that comes from both of us!!
She has become so full of energy and exploring everything around her, recently discovering a toy, that was given to her by my parents at Christmas, MOVES! Yes, she has always played with it, but now she will push it up and down our hallways, laughing and yelling along her way, over and over. The only frustrating part for her and for us.. haha, is that she hasnt figured out how to turn it around, so when she gets to the end of the hallway or to the table, she ends up yelling until we turn her around. She is quite speedy at this and at times its almost hard for us to keep with her, before she gets to the end to turn around! HAHA, It has definitely added to making her legs stronger though, for walking!.
past and anything that she cant have seems to be what she wants! VERY STRONG WILLED, getting very upset when you take it away from her, she loves to pull everything off the nightstands or off the little table by the front door! OVER an OVER she does this... almost like its a game! Another thing we have noticed is her love to climb, not only steps, but anything
that she can, resulting in lowering her bed to the bottom position. Every time I turn around she is trying to climb something!! Crazy girl!! We have Also moved up to taking a bath in the bathtub, rather than her little bathtub- making the clean up easier, except that she wants to stand up in the tub, making Mommy very nervous! She also has discovered showers and LOVES them! Very fascinated by the water coming out..With Flowers in bloom we spend a lot of time out side, so Mommy can pull weeds haha, leave it to Addison to discover the Tan Bark... and apparently Tan Bark tastes very good!! What is is with everything always going into the mouth... yuck!
EATING!! Sometimes I think I could talk about eating and that would be my only BLOG! We have discovered that if you give Addison a bottle in the car or during our walk, there is no fight and she will drink it all on her own, so AM bottle is usually given during a morning stroll and dinner bottle is usually given on our ride home from daycare. No fight, is what I am all about. She has been eating 3 meals now for 2 months, however this last month, Addison decided that pureed food is beneath her! No JOKE! As you bring the spoon to her mouth, she will immediately move her head back and investigate what you have on the spoon and then decide from there if she wants it or not! If its a NO, she will immediately turn her head and purse her lips shut! This has made mealtime very interesting... we have tried LOTS of new FOODs this month or the foods that we pureed have turned into pieces she can pick up! I have found though, that if you give her solid foods first that she can pick up on her own, then she will sometimes take the pureed food out of the jar. I am finding though that solid foods and lack of taking pureed foods she is not filling up as much, she is not getting that full, causing her formula intake to recently increase in the last month. Soo.. funny that 2 months before she turns a year she has finally started to drink her formula and in larger quantities!! CRAZY!! (definitly leaves me a little worried about the transition to WHOLE milk and if it will be able to fill her the way formula does) I think the teeth have definitely helped in her desire to take solids and we have also noticed that if WE are eating something, SHE WANTS IT... haha.. or at least wants to TRY it!! This last month, we have tried, Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Corn, Watermelon, Toast, Cheerios, Animal Cracker, Pretzels, Pasta and Cottage Cheese.
All in all this last month was very exciting for us... such special memories, my very first Mothers Day.. never thought this day would happen to me! I received 2 beautiful cards.. that I will cherish ALWAYS!! Addison is walking, she cut some teeth and in 1 month we will Celebrate a YEAR!!! Soo truly BLESSED!!!!
