Emory - 11 months

Emory will be ONE in only four short days!  (So I better post this from when she turned 11 months! HA!)

• Height and Weight -  She weighs around 18 1/2 pounds...she's a pretty petite little thing...smaller than Brynn was at this age.  
• Wearing size 3 diapers and most clothes around 12 month.
• She has her two bottom teeth, but just in the last three or four days she's run a low-grade fever and I swear I see a "vampire" tooth and maybe her top two teeth about to poke through.  (And after I typed this several days ago...false alarm.  She had some kind of little fever virus for a couple of days...no new teeth yet.  But isn't it funny that I "swore" I could see those teeth?  HA!)
• She's a super crawler and super cruiser, but no steps by herself yet.  She can stand by herself for about one second.  =)
• She eats all table food and is getting really good at a sippy cup.
• She's nursing in the morning and at night, and that's pretty much it.  Occasionally it seems like she will try to nurse during the day but I'm trying to wean her (I don't think she will have a problem at all now) so I just kind of distract her and it's fine.  My supply is definitely going down, so I think it will be a pretty easy transition.  She won't take a bottle anymore, so at lunch and supper she just drinks from a sippy cup.
• She can wave, clap, and blow kisses.  
• She says "uh-oh", "da-da"...that's about it.  She occasionally babbles the "mama" sound but she doesn't really say it to me yet.  She makes this "dah" sound a LOT....like if she points to stuff or wants things.
• She's gotten a little more high-maintenance lately.  HA!  As she's gotten some teeth she has been a GRUMP and she isn't a huge fan of Brynn wrestling her all over the place and she now has the squeal to let her know.  =)  We call her "Miss Grumpy" at Nonna's.  
• But she does LOVE her sister and it is adorable to watch Emory watching Brynn and smiling and laughing.  She does put up with quite a bit from her big sister.
• She still puts a lot of stuff in her mouth...we can't leave anything around!
• We let her take about a 20-30 minute catnap in the morning and then she usually naps 2ish to 2 1/2 hours in the afternoon.  She sleeps from about 8:30-8:30...we are blessed with a GREAT sleeper!
• Something she's REALLY gotten attached to these past couple of months is her "minky" (a little blanket).  We call it "minky" because it's made out of that really soft "dot" fabric called "minky" fabric.  She LOVES her minky and sleeps with it every nap and at night.  She is pretty obsessed with rubbing it all over her face and cuddling  with it.

I can truthfully say these have been some of the BEST 11 months of my whole life!!!