Eleven Months

Emma is eleven months old as of yesterday!

As you can kind of see in her pictures, last month was the month of teeth. She has six teeth now with another one or two almost through. She shows them off with her new scrunched face smile.

She is starting to act like a little toddler these days. Her new favorite activity is climbing. Once she successfully climbs on top of whatever she's trying to scale, she beams with pride and excitedly bounces around.

She also really likes to dance. She dances by bouncing and/or moving her arm up and down whenever she hears music. Natalie figured out today that she even dances on command. This afternoon Natalie said, "Dance Emma!" and Emma immediately turned on her smiles and bounces.

She is really starting to communicate with us by reaching and grunting for what she wants. She is also starting to get a bit of a toddler attitude when what she wants is not what she gets.

As always, she loves to play with the big kids. She especially loves to wrestle and tickle them. She and Max have started to play together more lately which is fun to see since they will be the only ones home during the day next year when Natalie is in Kindergarten.

I can't believe that next month I'll be posting about her birthday! She is growing so fast, and we're loving every minute of it!