Friday, July 2, 2010

11 Months

There are few things in life I love more than a chubby baby in a bikini! We were on vacation on June 27th this year and had to improvise with the picture this month, but I love to see all her rolls! I'm saddened to say that I was unable to locate the pause button, and in less than a month, Ally has turned into a full fledged walker. She now walks about 70% of the time. I'm upset that my baby has turned into a toddler, but man does she look adorable toddling! When she walks, she swings her hands above her head like a monkey, and it's ridiculously cute!
Ally's teeth are continuing to come in, bringing the grand total to six (2 bottom 4 top). At this point, Mama and Dada are the only words she uses consistently. She's developed some serious stranger anxiety, and we can't even leave her at the gym anymore without getting called because they can't get her to stop crying. We're hoping she outgrows this phase rapidly so we can get a little time to ourselves. She's also much more defiant than her big sister was at this age, and just before she does something naughty, she'll look us in the eye, shake her head "no," and quickly carry forth the forbidden behavior. So yeah....she's a little stinker!
She's a total water baby and loves to splash, splash, splash. For such a fair skinned kiddo, she seems to handle all the California sun pretty well.

And although she's trying her hardest to become a big kid, thankfully, she still has a lot of baby left too.