Happy 11 months birthday!

wow, you are 11 months old! only a month from now, you'll be a year old. that is kinda hard to believe.

to match your 11 months, now you have 11 teeth. the molar on the bottom right is poking through now. i think the canines are close behind. i guess one good thing about them all coming in at once is that you'll be done quicker.

i didn't get a chance to take any pictures today, but tomorrow i will take some and put them on this post. you are getting so pretty! you were always cute, but i think you're getting prettier and prettier. i really think you are going to look a lot like your grandma (daddy's mom). he looks like her, i think, so you will look like both of them!

you're getting a lot more self-aware lately. today you found your eyelashes. you were blinking your eyes and touching your lashes with your finger and trying to grab them. you discovered noses the other day (yours and other peoples' and also the animals in your books'). i ask you where my nose is, and you either stick your finger in my nose, or you try to pull it off, or you just stare at it. i have to put a barrette in your hair most days now, because your bangs are getting long. we're trying to avoid cutting them.

i also think you are saying some things. you have been working on the "B" sound for a while, but you say it really fervently and draw it out sometimes and wave while you're doing that. so i think that is "bye." i won't call it your official first word, since i'm not totally sure, but i think it is. you also say "Da!" and light up and wave at daddy sometimes when you see him.

the sleeping isn't getting a whole lot better. after a couple weeks of trying the baby whisperer method, we've gone back to the cry it out thing. i hate that, but i can see after only a couple days that it seems to be working a lot better and a lot faster. it is hard for all of us, but i feel like it's worth it. you need your sleep and so does mommy! i think we'll both be a lot happier and more rested after a week or so of this, because you are learning to go to sleep on your own. i'm hoping that will mean that you'll learn to go to sleep on your own at bedtime, as well as soothe yourself back to sleep when you wake up at other times in the night.

speaking of sleep, i better go get some of that.

love, mom