11 Months

Happy Eleven Months, Mairin!

This kid is the best.  I had forgotten how much fun 1-year-olds can be and Mairin is definitely a fun one.  Lots of giggles, claps, smiles, jabbering, and wiggling around.  We will be driving in the car and you'll hear her in the back just laughing away to herself.  She's such a happy girl, it's infectious.  

It's hard to believe that this time last year we were only a couple weeks away from meeting her.  The past year has been a wonderful whirlwind that I would relive over and over again if I could.  At eleven months old, she is still on the same routine of two naps and about twelve hours of sleep at night.  She's such a good sleeper and eater.  Still drinking four bottles and eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Her favorites change pretty often but she currently prefers:  frozen peas, cheese, yogurt, toast, berries, watermelon, grapes, chicken, puffs, peanut butter crackers, cucumbers and tomatoes.

Mairin is a lot of fun to play with.  She likes to play peek-a-boo and if you are sitting on the floor she will walk around your back from side to side and try to scare you.  She screams with excitement when she thinks she super scary.  Mairin isn't walking on her own yet but zoom arounds with her walker and likes to push anything she can find around the house.  She has taken a few steps between Eric and I but hasn't ventured out to walk on her own.  She has the strength, she just needs to build the confidence and she will be off.  She has been spending a lot of days at the pool and loves the water but won't sit in a float.  She prefers to crawl around, eat and be held in the water.  It's a lot of work at the pool this summer but she has so much fun and a big fan club of older kids that love to see her.

This is one of her funny little faces to a tee.  So squishy and sweet.  

On to the first birthday!