Eliana - 11 months old!!!

Eliana you are 11 months old!!! 

This is what happens when we try to pose you for pictures.

-You are still wearing mostly 9-month clothes, but you can still wear some 6-12 months. I have put you 

in a few 12-month outfits recently. They’re a little long, but you can wear them.

- I have no idea what you weigh now. My guess is 20 lbs.

- I have no idea how long you are.

- Although on my last blog I said I was afraid to try giving you a regular sippy cup again, we did. I 

think you’re really starting to get the hang of it now! Although, you still prefer to take a sip and then 

throw your cup.

- You do a great job of eating solids! You have started doing a really funny thing though. Whenever I 

feed you, you do great and eat it with no problem. However, if I have been feeding you and then 

Daddy tries to give you a bite, you turn your head and fuss. Eventually you give in and take it from 

him. After that you are fine to eat from him until I give you another bite, and then the cycle repeats.

- You still love Cheerios!

-You like to “read” your books in the car. You sit in the backseat and just jabber away.

- You aren’t really standing by yourself, yet. Sometimes you do for a few seconds before 

you realize it and get scared. You started doing that on 1/7/13, but you don’t do it consistently.

- You are still giving me kisses more than anyone else, but you've given a few out recently. You've 

started attacking whomever you are kissing. It gets a little scary since you have teeth now!

- You are still sleeping through the night! You've even started waking up a little later than 6:30! Yay! 

It's usually somewhere between 7:30-8:30 now. I hope it stays that way!

- Naptime is actually getting better... FINALLY!!! 

You’re only taking about an hour nap right now, but it is much better than it was! 

Some days you don’t even cry now!!! Oh you have no idea how happy this makes me!

- You still try to get as much attention as possible when we are in public. You are so funny!

- You have gotten so many teeth in the last month! I know for sure that you have 4 on top 

now, and 2  more are coming through on the bottom, which will make 4 on the bottom. I can’t get a 

good enough look to see if there are any more.  At first we thought that you were going to have fangs 

because your top front teeth were not coming in first. Thankfully, they showed up only a few days 

later.

- You like to eat socks! You almost never have 2 socks on because you pull one off and crawl around 

with it in your mouth. You also like to crawl over to me and pick a piece of fuzz off of my socks to eat. 

Weird…I know.

- You’re still not a huge fan of playing in your pack-and-play or your exersaucer when I need to get 

something done. You’d much rather be crawling around. Your favorite places to play right now are in 

the kitchen and behind our loveseat. You love to mess with the boxes of soft drink cans, the dishtowel 

that hangs on the oven, and the mat. I also can't do any dishes when you are around because you like to  

climb on the dishwasher! You get really upset if you see me close it when you are crawling toward it. 

- You like to go behind the loveseat because our guitar cases are back there, and you like to play with 

them. You've also started standing at the back door.

*Note that not only are you climbing on the guitar cases, but you are also carrying a sock. 

- Still having temper tantrums, and I doubt if that will change anytime soon.

- Have I mentioned that you play with your own hair when you get sleepy? It’s really sweet.

- You can say, “Mama,” “Dada,” “ball,” “bye,” “yeah,” “that (which comes out as “dat” and it’s super 

cute!!!!),” and occasionally “cheese.”

- You have started nodding all of the time. It is precious! You are very adamant about your nod.

- You have gotten to play in the snow a couple of times now. Honestly, you're not a big fan.

                        

So maybe I dressed you in a few layers...

Sledding with Daddy. 

- You take baths in the "big girl bathtub" now. No more baby tub for you! You absolutely love it! You 

crawl all over the tub!

- You did something on 1/25/13 that we knew would happen one day, and we were surprised that it 

took this long…you pooped in the bathtub. Oh my, it was funny! Thankfully, you have a wonderful 

Daddy that cleaned it up! I could tell it was about to happen, but I couldn’t get the words out in time to 

warn your Daddy! That’s another one of those things you are going to hate me for publishing.

- You still love playing with tags. This picture is evidence to that.

- We’ve said “last bite” and “all gone” to you since you started eating solid foods. We usually clap 

when your food is “all gone” and do the sign for it. Recently you have started getting very excited 

when we say, “last bite.” You’ll put the bite in your mouth as quickly as possible, so you can clap for 

yourself. It’s adorable!!! We really need to get that on video. Tanner, if you read this, try to remember 

that. ;0)