Annabelle is 11 months old!

Well, I should hurry up and get this written before the child turns 1 on us! Annabelle at 11 months old is so much fun. She has such a sweet disposition - full of joy and so social. She talks and smiles to everyone she sees, even strangers, and they love to chat back with her. She is still super independent but loves to snuggle and will happily ride around on your hip for hours. She's my little buddy and it's so much fun watching her explore new things. She really loves to look at books and anything big sister likes, she likes it too. 

She's getting really close to walking - she pulls up on things immediately and walks around with one hand holding on. She's taken a couple of steps, but just from things short distances apart. She refuses to do it unless she's started the process on her own. If she stands up herself and decides to walk from the table to the couch, it's all good. But if mommy or daddy try to stand her up and get her to walk to the other one, all of a sudden she's got jelly legs and refuses to stand up. Such a stinker! 

She's starting to eat more and more table foods and less purées - she's got a thing about textures (so does mommy) and if something doesn't feel right in her mouth, she's quick to just take it right back out - and usually throw it on the floor :). Veggies are still her favorites by far and she also loves crackers - any kind will usually do but her favorites to munch on are ritz and graham crackers. 

She's staring to chatter to us even more and besides mama and dada, we've heard "hey!" And "hello!" You can tell she hears those pretty often. Once I got her to say "hi mama!" But it hasn't happened since. Here's the big, almost-one-year-old girl!