11 Months Old!

Allie is 11 months old now.  This also means I have gone another whole month without blogging.  I am officially the worst blogger I know.  The good news is, I can only go up from here.   Anyway...back to the topic at hand.  Allie is 11 months old, she is way too big, and I am bordering on clinical depression feeling that my last baby isn't a baby anymore!

Allie is busy, busy, busy these these days.  She also has very little tolerance for this picture taking with the bear.  We had only a couple shots to choose from this month and this was the best. Between grabbing the bear or the paper or simply rolling away to do other things, it is almost impossible to get this shot.  Here are a couple of our other choices this month...

In the last couple of weeks Allie has started experimenting with standing on her own.  She gets herself to standing next to some object and then she lets go and balances as long as she can before she flops back down to her butt. She has also started waving hi and goodbye.  She is so proud of herself and pleased with herself when she does it.  Come visit her soon and get a big Allie wave! She has also pretty much stopped spitting up this last month.  Sometimes the absence of some behavior can be hard to notice right away, but this last week it occurred to me that she is not spitting up every day, all over the floor.  That has been a welcome change.  I think we also had what I would call her first time of sleeping completely through the night last week.  She hasn't repeated that again yet, but her night time activities and wakings are trending in the right direction.  Hooray for the possibility of sleep in my future!

In the last week or so we have become very aware of our need for many more baby gates around this house.  We have so many different stairs and it is so hard to contain Allie to wherever I am. She is certainly not to be trusted on her own! Here is how I found her helping clean the tupperware cabinet the other day...

She was having quite a good time emptying everything out from the inside of the cabinet.

Allie is still such a joy.  She is smiling from the moment she wakes up and is usually laughing and smiling as I put her down in bed. We love this little girl and the joy she brings to our family.  I will leave you with just a couple more shots from the Crazy Train household this month...