I had to leave my computer in Columbus the weekend after Easter so my niece could get her ipod back up and running, so I have fallen behind on my blogging. I still don't have the pictures from that weekend on my computer yet, but I was so ready to make a post, so those pics will come later. I have been wanting to post about Audrey Grace being 11 months old, but nowthat I finally have my computer back, she is almost 12 months old! I really cannot believe our sweet little Audrey Grace is going to be 1 next week. I am so happy she is growing and healthy and happy, but I am not ready for her to "grow up too fast"! I have been so emotional about this. I look thru pictures and cry, I walk in her room while she is sleeping and just stare at her and tears come to my eyes. I am now cherishing those 7 months I was at home with her a little more than before. Ok, enough of that right now. We are at the beach and I don't want to cry on vacation about this. I will cry enough on Monday and Tuesday I am sure and then again at her party on Saturday.
I wanted to make a post about what all she has accomplished from 10 months to 12 months.
She is still not walking, but pulling up and walking around things. She will walk behind her push toys but she would rather sit down and crawl in front of them to play with them. She is waving bye bye, she added the word dog and no to her vocabulary (which now consists of 4 words), sometimes she will say things after you like bye bye and Nannie for Annie. I have tried really hard to not say no all the time. I try to switch it up and say stop it or we don't do that or just divert her attention, but she has still managed to say the word no. It is really funny because she shakes her head no too! She actually started doing this about 2 weeks before saying the word. If she is finished eating or doesn't want something she closes her eyes and shakes her head no! She also babbles in her own little language all the time. She will sit and talk to her toys for 30 minutes. We are down to 1 night time bottle a day and sippy cups the rest. I am afraid the night time bottle will be hard to get away from. Her eyes light up when she sees it coming! She is clapping her hands (finally), playing pat a cake and "rolling it up", still sleeps like a champ! She is transitioning to 1 nap a day for about 2-3 hours. She is eating much better. She still has a texture issue but is learning to eat different stuff. She eats a lot of ravioli, mac-n-cheese, gerber graduate cerel bars, fruit cups, ritz crackers, bananas and graham crackers. Not all the most healthy stuff, but she won't always eat veggies very well. She hates rice.
Audrey Grace will move up on Monday to the 1 year old classroom! I am excited about this because I hear the teacher is great. They do all kind of arts and crafts, have reading time and she will get to go on the playground. They have been transitioning her for about 2 weeks. She goes in thier room for a couple of hours a day and I think she cries the entire time! The teacher, Ms Ally, is so sweet and tells me, its fine, she will be fine, just give her 2 solid weeks in here. It is going to kill me Monday when I take her and she screams because Ms Linda isn't taking her from me. She absolutly loves Ms Linda, her babyroom teacher. This is just one of the many many stepping stones we will have. I will keep you updated on how the transition goes.
