11 months old!!

Wow!! It has almost been one year since Jade was born. I remember this time last year being big and pregnant and anticipating what it would be like to have a baby in our home. Well, eleven months have now flown by and we are hanging onto each moment because they seem to fly by so fast! We shouldn’t have blinked because our once helpless little infant is now a speedy, independent crawling machine! Some of the milestones Jade has reached this month are:

• She weighs 23.5 lbs and is about 30 inches tall!

• Jade can crawl lightning fast and get to every room in the house. She can pull open drawers and cabinets and likes to stand up to furniture. She cannot stand on her own yet but sure likes to try, which usually ends in her falling, so we keep plenty of pillows around!

• She has her 2 bottom teeth and uses them well. It is funny because she no longer just gums food to death, but rather she is experimenting with those two teeth and gnaws and scrapes at foods with them. My favorite is when she scrapes off bits of apple, she loves it and it is so cute to watch her munch on things.

• She babbles all day, “Na, na, na ,na” and “ba, ba, ba” and “da da da” and “mom.”

• can blow spit bubbles in her mouth, she does this almost all day!

• eats almost everything but cow’s milk, honey, peanut butter, and chokable foods. Her favorites are watermelon, eggs, squash, spaghetti, basically anything with a lot of flavor she absolutely loves!

She is changing day by day into a little toddler, it makes me so sad but some of her baby fat is starting to disappear!


Jade has started making many new faces and basically won't smile much anymore because she prefers these faces!! She makes us laugh everyday!!!