Dear Laurel,<\/p>\n
Today you turned 11 months old and the countdown has begun to your first birthday.\u00a0 You are growing so fast and it seems like new things are happening each day.\u00a0 You are pulling up on everything and moving around pretty well.\u00a0 You are standing on your own for several seconds before losing your balance and have even taken a few steps!!\u00a0 There have only been 3 or 4 occasions where you have taken some steps, usually 3or 4 before you fall, but of course you refuse to walk once we grab the camera or video camera.\u00a0 It definitely seems like you will start walking by your first birthday.\u00a0 It’s very exciting to see you take your first steps, but it means you will be walking everywhere and getting into EVERYTHING!\u00a0 You already crawl your way into trouble now.\u00a0 You still love water bottles and have learned the location of the recycling bin, which has become a toy chest for you full or bottles and cardboard to play with.\u00a0 Your eyes light up like you have discovered gold when you start pulling out the contents.\u00a0 It’s quite hilarious.<\/p>\n
You are beginning to discover table foods and you seem to like most foods.\u00a0 Your favorite by far are Mum Mums, which are specifically made for babies your age.\u00a0 They are rice rusks and taste like rice cakes or rice krispy treats (minus the sugar).\u00a0 It’s a healthy snack, so I am glad you enjoy them so much.\u00a0 You start going crazy for them at the sight of the package.\u00a0 You start smacking your lips and raise your hands with excitement.\u00a0 Even the people at daycare are surprised how much you enjoy them.\u00a0 Just this past week we introduced Cheerios and you seem to really enjoy those also.\u00a0 You are still learning to appreciate textures, but little by little have started tasting more foods.<\/p>\n
Your personality is starting to come out a little bit more now.\u00a0 You seem to be quite the comedian.\u00a0 You are often laughing and smiling and you love people watching just like mommy.\u00a0 You do not seem as quiet\u00a0 as your daddy, but I guess that’s ok.\u00a0 You enjoy music and often clap and bounce when you hear it.\u00a0 You are a bit mischievous and pretend not to understand the word “no” when you are doing something you are not supposed to do like pulling on the blinds or messing with the tv components. When daddy or I say “no” in our stern voices and stern faces, you just smile and keep going.\u00a0 I hope you understand no soon!<\/p>\n
You have one more week until you get your Doc band off and we are very excited about that.\u00a0 The only thing I am not excited about is you hitting your head on everything no that you don’t have anything to “protect” you from getting hurt, but I am sure you will quickly learn.\u00a0 I just hope there are not too many bumps and bruises along the way.<\/p>\n
You have not really starting saying any new words yet, but you are starting to vocalize more.\u00a0 You definitely understand your name also, which is very cool.<\/p>\n
So as I mentioned, the countdown begins to your first birthday.\u00a0 We plan to have a small gathering at home with family and a few friends, but it will definitely be a memorable event.\u00a0\u00a0 Can’t wait to celebrate with you!!<\/p>\n
Love you dearly!<\/p>\n
Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Laurel, Today you turned 11 months old and the countdown has begun to your first birthday.\u00a0 You are growing so fast and it seems like new things are happening each day.\u00a0 You are pulling up on everything and moving around pretty well.\u00a0 You are standing on your own for several seconds before losing your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kids"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-rM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}