11 months!!

This post is a bit late..but i'm hoping you all will cut me a break... been sort of a crazy monht!

we are officially moved out of our house and living with gma and gpa d. It's been super chaotic with all the packing and moving and coordinating and check writing!

and been very very very sad to leave.  I can't believe I said goodbye to the house this weekend.  was definately brutal for us. 

i keep getting a little choked up.  especially when i think of penn's room... i wish she understand what was going on - but she has been a champ!  last night was her first night in her new room and she did great... went tdown great and slept all night... i was soo proud of her.  she was a little confused at fist with her new place... but she got adjusted very quicly.  all her toys and stuff is in the new living room, she recognizes mom and daddy's new room, and we set up her bedroom as close as possible.

i tink she'll adjust better than us!  it's kind of sad that she wont remember the old house and where she spent her first year - but it sa good thing mommy has a ton of pictures to show her when she gets older.

well, in the midst of all this craziness, penelope has the gall to turn 11 months old!

it's crazy... in a few weeks she'll be one... and i'll of course be crying...

i dont even know how to begin with this update!

this child is changing sooo muich everyday!

eating habits:  we are actually just starting to switch to milk.  i'm at the end ofthe formual container adn think it's time for the little lady to go to real milk!  i introducte dthat last night - she's not sure... but we'll keep trying it!!!  other than that - penelope can eat anything now - expect peanuts/peanut butter! but she loves all fruit (still blueberries and bananas and oranges the best), loves yogurt, loves grilled cheese, anything from chef boyardee, chx nuggest, fries, broccoli, caulifflower and bread. she pretty much eats it all!!

sleeping: still a great sleeper - going down a bit later though - mor elike 7/7:30 instead of 6:45.  she gets up at 6:30sihs.. so about 11 hours at night.  and does one really good am nap - aout 2.5 hours and a shorter afternoon nap -about 1.5 hours... so overall - 15 hours a day.. i'm godo with htat... we have started to have a few nightime wake ups though - not sure if it's nightmares or what but she wakes up SCREAMING.. and it can take a LONG time to calm her back down.  Happens mabybe once a week now!

Words:  penelope is really starting to try and get some words out.. she can mouth "hi five", can say "book" if you ask a lot, can someitmes say "ball", still loves her version of "sock" and says mamamama and dadada all day.   a lot of it is still bayb talk.. but it's baby tlak with meaning lately. you can tell by her inflection and stopping and starting words/sounds (they dont all just flow together now), that she is trying ot say something, or give direction, or tell you a story. it's pretty adroable.  With this also seems to come the frustration piece orf not being to truly tell me what she wants!  it hink that will be around for a while.

walking: any day now! penelop can walk with pushing on something, cruising on the couch or holidng your hand (sometiems with just one).  she is jsut not sure about that first stop unassisted.  she can stand on our own and get up and down wihtout falling over... has the squat perfected...

she can aslo go up a step or 2.. but still wants to go down headfirst... we are working on teaching her how to go down on her belly - not interested...

she is just now learnign to "play" with toys as they are intended.

loves her ball popper and breaking much any toy that she can put the ball in something, loves her cookie shape sorter (can't do any shapes but circle yet), and really really loves her banger toy - where you but the balls in a tighter circle and bang them through... i lvoe watching her learn toys.. you can see the littel wheels in her head turning.

peneloe is alos quite the lovebug. still lvoes and hugs pink puppy, but also gives lots of love and hugs to blue puppy, white cat (this one is new), her froggie backpack, and even her bottle lunch bag.  LOVES to hug and kiss.

when she is "walking" along the couch or with a toy, she puts pink puppy in her mouth and holds its by the ears with her teeth, so that he can travel wiht her :)

pretty cute...

well - i still need to upload some photos, camera has been packed, but i'll get to to today!

next time i do a monthly post it'll be my last one!  a recap of her bday :)

god she is soo big.  i love my big girl :)

how much does she look like a toddler in this photo?  (where did my baby go??)