11 Month Pictures

Wow… 11 months. Did you know that is just one month away from 12 months? Jeff and I feel like Clara has changed so much just in this last month. We are really starting to see her personality. She loves to laugh and interact with us. She is a very happy baby. She seems to really enjoy music and singing and has even started to dance to music. We often go to baby story time at the library, and the songs, interactions, and bubbles are a huge hit. We also frequent the children’s museum just to play and to go to classes about math, Spanish, etc. It’s amazing what is offered! Clara still loves to read, and her current favorite books are the ones where you lift the flap. She is able to do this on her own but we have had several flap casualties already.

Clara has started pointing in the last month and will usually point to the correct item when asked, “where’s your bunny?” or “where’s the fan?” Speaking of fans… she is fascinated by them, and we have several at our house. When she is sitting in her seat for meals, she can see at least three different fans. One day, she pointed to the one in the kitchen, then to the one she could see through the window on the back porch, and then turned around to point to the one in the den. This has now become a fairly regular thing to point to all of the fans that she sees. Can you imagine the fun we have in Home Depot on the fan aisle? If only they kept them running… Clara is now saying “mama” and “dada” regularly for us and approximates other words. She does the sign for “all done.” Although this still is used to mean a lot of things right now, she consistently does the sign when she is finished eating.

You can see 4 teeth now, 2 on the top and 2 on the bottom, with another starting to come through on the top. And… Clara is taking several steps at a time now. She has been increasingly walking longer distances between furniture but will now take off on her own and can take up to 5 or 6 steps before stopping. She also enjoys sticking out her tongue these days and touching yours when you stick it out too.

Mississippi State went to the college World Series in Omaha. This was a huge deal for our school. Sadly, we ended up in second place but Clara enjoyed hanging out with her daddy during the games.