Eleven Months

11 Things about 11 month old Penny

1. She's walking! Walking is now her preferred mode of travel. She is getting steadier and faster every day. We're babyproofing more and more every day.
2. She's very proud of herself. Whenever she does something good, she claps for herself! It's adorable.
3. She's starting to try to repeat words when we talk to her. It's time to pay attention to the words that are coming out of our mouths, to the sounds coming out of the tv and the lyrics coming out of the radio. The other night, she said "teeth" while we were brushing our teeth :) She calls my glasses "dasses" and she tries to say "duck" every night in the tub. Her favorite words are still hi and dada/daddy/dad.
4. She's already mocking me. I say "mama" to her and she smiles and says "dada". Try as I might, I can not get her to call me "mama".
5. She's graduated to napping on a big girl mat at daycare.
6. She hates to wear socks. She pulls them off and swings them around with a big smile on her face.
7. She loves Elmo. Aunt Megan got her an Elmo that talks for Christmas and she loves to play with him. We'll occasionally watch video clips on the Sesame Street website and she cheers when she sees Elmo.
8. She loves to dance. Whenever we hear music, she starts to shake her little bum and swing her little hips.
9. She loves her new play room. We turned our living room into Penny-land. She's free to roam and she has a great time moving between her blocks, her rocking horse, her laugh and learn table, her books and everywhere in between. She is one lucky girl!
10. Her favorite foods are cheese, yogurt, canned pears cut into small chunks and crackers. She is a somewhat picky eater and a drama queen when you feed her something she doesn't like. One day she will love her veggies and the next she'll refuse them. Over Christmas break, she had a piece of a Chick-fil-a chicken tender and some pizza...of course she loved them! We're trying to integrate more solids and adult food into her diet. My goal for 2011 is to start to cook more food for Penny on the weekends. I'd like to be feeding her more whole/fresh foods, as opposed to Gerber.
11. She's starting to become more interested in books. She still loves to read Little Duck and Farm Peek-A-Boo most days, but she's branching out every day. Her favorite books continue to be books with fuzzy animals and books with pages that flip up or pull out,

She's growing and learning new things every day. She'll be one before we know it. The past eleven months have flown by. She makes us smile every day and we can't wait to see what she'll do next.