Audrey: 11 Months

One month until Audrey is a year old. Whoa.

This month Audrey has been busy working on her balance, walking, and all terrain crawling.

Her balance is getting pretty darn good. She can squat down to pick something up and stand back up without falling. I think that is more than many adults can say. Good work doots.

Audrey has also started taking a few steps here and there, as I mentioned before here. She is both getting better at walking and at cruising around the furniture. Baby girl moves around those couches fast. I finally got to see her take more than one step today. She took at least 5 while we were at mom and baby group, it was a wonderful site to see. She'll be walking in no time. Hopefully I will have a video soon!

All terrain crawling is one of Audrey's favorite pastimes. She loves to crawl over your legs, or torso, or head. She also enjoys crawling through furniture, think coffee and end tables, and over anything else that may be in her way. It is actually quite impressive that she has enough arm strength to get her legs back to the floor from a higher surface without bashing her head as she has not yet figured out how to go off things backwards. So, she goes forward and uses those pipes. Sometimes she bonks her head, but usually she does well.

One of Audrey's favorite games is chase. If you get down on your hands and knees and take off after her she crawls away as fast as she can and starts laughing so hard she falls on her belly. It is adorable and so fun that you keep crawling around on your knees even though it sucks, crawling on your hands and knees as a grown person hurts.

She is becoming more of a toddler every day. The little lady is eating so much food. Seriously she eats so much right now. She will also eat almost anything you give her. Seriously almost anything. She eats what we eat a day later cause I can't get dinner ready before bedtime. Today she had butternut squash and kale curry (not spicy curry I'm not mean) with rice, earlier this week she had quinoa and eggplant salad. I'm not counting on this adventurous palate sticking around forever, but it is nice while it lasts.

She loves to wave goodbye. Loves it. I drop her at daycare and she starts waving as soon as I hand her off. It is wonderful that she loves daycare so much, but I wouldn't mind if she missed me a little bit. She even waves to animals at the zoo.

She has also learned to clap and dance to music. She loves singing songs, reading books, dancing to music, and watching sesame street. She is actually fun to play with these days, that is a sure sign she is growing up.

She is my favorite and she will be a big kid in no time. So fun, but a little sad too.

Now the lists
Things Audrey LOVES right now

• Food
• Crawling everywhere and playing chase
• Cats and dogs
• Waving goodbye
• Clapping
• Dancing
• Being tossed, zoomed, rocked - any quick movement through the air is fun for her.
• Swings and slides
• The remote
• Books
• Apple cores (we let her chew on them when we are done and she gets really, really pissed if you take too long to eat the apple).
• Sleeping

Things Audrey HATES right now

•  When you take the remote, apple core, etc. from her.
• Being hungry
• Being tired
• Bumping her head and face
• Not getting enough attention
• Snuggling, she wants attention just not physical attention. She is a complex creature.
• Lemons

Audrey is super happy and fun right now. Everyday is a joy with her, for real. Everyday when JT picks her up from daycare our provider says she was great. Usually I think she must be lying at least some of the time, no kid is great all the time. But right now, theses past few weeks I believe her. That baby has been so happy and so fun.

She is a seriously happy baby who is almost a toddler.