She's 11 months old

Ahhh.... my sweet PJ. I can't believe she's 11 months old!

Let's see... we video taped her taking something like 8 steps on her 11 month day... but I can't figure out how to make a video to post here as we used our video camera, and not a digital camera. Steve will have to figure it out. But it was super cute! She is standing up all the time, and will walk a couple of steps to us or to Morgan before she sits down, but she hasn't just let go and walked anywhere. I don't know if I'm ready for that anyway. She's already fast enough!

She has her two front teeth starting to poke through. So now she has 4 on top and the two on the bottom. She can finally chew! That's great, because she hasn't let Mama feed her any baby food in quite a while. She's an independent girl and likes to feed herself, so it's been a challenge finding things for her to eat on her own, that are in small enough chunks, and that fill her up enough.

She seems little to me, compared to her big sister. I'll have to get out that pink jumper that Mom made Morgan and put it on her to compare. I have pictures of Morgan in December of 2004, which is her at 11 months. I do think she was bigger, though. So the sizes might be a tad off and I'll have to get some new clothes for PJ for the summertime. That's fine, because I don't want her to have to wear ONLY Morgan's hand-me-downs. She hasn't, because at this young age, the clothes get easily stained, especially Morgan's because she did still allow me to feed her baby food, and some guy thought it was a good idea to dye it all permanent yellow, so when it gets on clothes it's a booger to get out.

Payton isn't talking yet, but she still gets her point across. She also LOVES her daddy, and I love to see that. Morgan was such a mommy's girl, it's nice to see the kids love on their daddy too. He isn't complaining....

She's a cuddler too. Morgan never cuddled like she does. I LOVE that. LOVE the cuddling. I'll be sad if she ever stops cuddling.

Payton loves the Gloworm that Papa got her, loves to poke out baby doll eyes, and loves to read too. She'll just sit and actually look at pictures, but her favorite part is changing the pages. She loves to change the pages.

My sweet girl is NOT sleeping through the night. You'd think she could have a bottle and go to bed around 7:30 and sleep through, but nope, she gets up and I feed her sometimes 2 more bottles before morning time. I think it's becoming a habit. I can only let her cry it out for so long before it starts waking Morgan up.... last night I did have a little breakthrough, and only gave her one bottle. She woke up more than once, but I was able to give her back her binkie and settle her back down, and she went back to sleep. So maybe we are working our way towards a full night's rest. I know I'd certainly appreciate it!