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| Of course the only smiling photo is the one with her hand in her mouth. |
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| 11 months! |
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| I have to post the photo with the bow in her hair. Of course she promptly removed it right after I snapped the photo. I wish she would keep it in! |
11 month facts:
- At the beginning of this month I would say to Claire "can you clap?" or "can you wave?" and she would do the actions I was asking about. I didn't even know she knew what they were called without seeing the action. It really surprised me!
- She also understands "hi" and "bye". If you tell her to say "hi" or "bye" she will wave.
- Speaking of waving, Claire loves to wave! Especially at kids (like every kid at church). She always waves at Dan if we are walking out of a room and he is still in the room we are leaving. It's super cute. She also knows to wave when Dan leaves for work.
- One other thing about waving, whenever I'm on the phone Claire will usually wave. I think she gets confused because we often FaceTime different family members, so she thinks whoever I am talking to can see her.
- When we tell her to give kisses she smacks her lips.
- Sometimes when we pray Claire will clasp her hands together during the prayer (mostly at dinner).
- She is pretty much over baby food and just wants to eat what we are eating.
- She loves bread, bananas, turkey, beans, and avocado.
- She loves reading the Very Hungry Caterpillar book because it has little holes she likes to stick her fingers in. She's also found the holes in her nose and puts her fingers in those too :).
- This past month Claire got 2 more teeth! Making a total of 4 teeth. I thought she would get her 2 upper middle teeth, but she actually got the ones on each side of the middle.
- During Christmas she really loved looking at Christmas lights. We took her to one house where you tune your radio to a certain station and their lights flicker to the music and she loved it. It kept her attention for a good 10 minutes!
- She likes toys that she can open and close.
- Claire loves to pull items out of containers. One of her favorite activities is pulling everything out of the diaper bag. She also loves to pull all of her toys out of their bins and throw them all over her room. She does the same thing with her laundry too. And every time I put my makeup on she has to take all of my makeup out of my makeup bag.
- She has 2 toy phones and puts them up to her ear.
- Claire really likes other kids. Even kids bigger and older than her. She is always crawling over to them to see what they are doing and wants to be right in the middle of it all.
- She did not like Santa and cried when she met him.
- She knows the words "hair" and "nose" and will usually point to them.
- Claire has started to pull out her books and look at them by herself, it's adorable. She loves flipping through them. She is also getting better at playing with toys by herself.
- We have some play food in our basement and I was pretending to cut it and eat it and Claire copied me! She made eating noises and all. It was so funny. She is getting pretty good at imitating.
- A couple of times she has said "ba ba" for "bye bye". She also says "pup" for "up".
- Claire had her very first Christmas and got a walker, new clothes, textured balls, a big stuffed dog, books, and a lady bug ball popper.
- The worst part of the month was when Claire got the stomach flu. It was a sad few days.
Claire is learning so much! She is always surprising me with what she knows. I really can't say it enough how much we love this sweet girl and are so grateful to have her in our family!
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