11 months

Kinley turned 11 months old yesterday. It's bittersweet because in just one short month, which I know will fly by, she will be 1 year old... Absolutely crazy!

 

She has started to try to let go of things when she's standing and she can balance for a while now before she falls. She can also slowly stand up from a squat position and stand on her own for a while before she falls down. She's always got skinned up knees and scratches from crawling and getting into everything. She's starting to use her knees to try to climb on things now too... or she'll just go head first over me or the dogs to get what she wants!

By my scale at home yesterday she weighed 21.6 lbs. She graduated to size 4 diapers just a couple weeks ago. She could still wear size 3, but we were starting to have too many accidents so we went up. She wears mostly 18 month clothes. She can still wear a few 12 months but not too much. She even has a couple of 24 month old tops now. Her sandals that she wears are a size 2. We bought her her first pair of Nike's the other day, and while the size 3 would've probably fit her perfect, Colt made me get the size 4 so they would last longer. They fit her with a little room to grow.

She now has 4 teeth that are completely in. Her top right came in at the end of April and three days later, I noticed that the top left was in as well. I think she's starting to work on another one up top too. She eats pretty much everything unless I think it may be too spicy. She LOVES food. She also loves juice. I usually only let her have juice once a day and it's usually first thing in the morning. As soon as she sees me get it out of the fridge, she gets so excited and starts kicking her feet back and forth while she's sitting on the ground. Just this past week, we started trying to give her regular milk to see if she could handle it. Of course she loves it and guzzles it down! So far, we haven't noticed any reactions so we'll keep giving it to her a little and I may try to start replacing a feeding with it soon.

She's pretty much 100% in her crib now unless we just have a bad night. She's been doing pretty good lately. I've been only having to get up once or so a night and every once in a while NOT ANY!! She'll wake up and I'll let her cry and she'll go right back down by herself in a few minutes. I wouldn't call it a routine quite yet  though because just the other night, we had one of the worst nights we've had in a while and were up all night long again! However, we were at Colt's mom's that night and she was out of her routine and her normal sleeping spot. She naps two times a day. Usually she'll take a nap around 11 or so and then she'll nap again around 4 or so. She naps in her crib. Here lately she's been napping at least an hour, sometimes two that first nap. Then her afternoon nap is usually about an hour most days. I say that.... but then sometimes she'll still wake up as soon as I put her down and not go back to sleep unless I sit there and hold her! Most days we are good about napping on our own though!

She still is saying dada. She is waving and saying "hey" and "hi." She has the cutest voice when she says either one. We haven't gotten her to say "bye" yet. It's always "hey" or "hi." She says what we think is her version of mama, but it's more like "ma, ma, ma, ma." She never just does the "ma" two times. She jabbers all the time, especially in the mornings or when she has a full tummy.

Here are a few more tidbits:

• She still loves to have her tummy tickled by your face.
• She still loves the house alarm and getting water out of the fridge.
• She loves the WATER. We've had her in a hot tub I guess three times now, and she LOVES it along with still loving her baths. She bathes with me a lot of the time now. Since she kept climbing in anyways, I just let her play at my feet while I shower, then I wash her.
• She loves watching the dogs out of the back door. She also loves touching either one of them when they will let her. She got a kick out of playing with Alex's tail the other night.
• Her new thing is playing with the blinds in the living room and opening and closing them. It's something Colt started with her so whenever she's on the couch with you, she thinks she has to do it.
• She still loves "Peek a Boo" and "Where's Kinley?" She has started to raise a toy or blanket herself and hide behind it, then pull it off. She's also started to peek around you or furniture to play peek a boo on her own.
• She still has an obsession with trying to get to the dog bowls in the laundry room. She still loves the Tupperware drawer. Just this last week, Colt put childlocks on all of our cabinets. The morning after he put them on, she tried to open the cabinet and got SO MAD when she couldn't get it open. It was one of her first little fits.
• She got a little temper and threw a fit with her dad this past week too! She grabbed his phone and put it in her mouth. When he told her no and took it from her, she cried. He gave it back and she put it in her mouth again so he told her no and took it back. When he was letting her have it back, she yanked it out of his hand and went "ugh." It was so funny. You try not to laugh, but she was definitely showing some attitude. When he took it back that time though, she cried uncontrollably. You could tell that he had hurt her feelings.
• A lot of the times when she wakes up in the morning, she'll just sit in her crib for a while and play (most of the time she's actually pooping). Those mornings when she doesn't wake up crying, she gets so excited when she sees me walk in the door and immediately wants to be picked up.
• She LOVES brushing her teeth. Colt thought it would wear off, but so far she STILL loves it. If she even sees the toothbrush, she's all smiles! After I do the initial brush though, she definitely wants to do it herself.
• She has started to lick at the water in the tub or dip her hands in and drink it. She's also taken her rinse cup and turned it up a few times to drink while in the tub.
• She loves playing with my earrings. I usually wear little studs, and she will put her hand on my face and turn my head to look for them. She turned Dede's face the other day to look for her earrings too.
• She definitely know what "No" or "No, ma'am" means. While she usually stops, she will get a big grin whenever she hears no and see how much she can get away with. 
• She also loves taking laundry out of the washer or dryer for me and throwing it on the floor. Along those same lines, she likes to open and clean out drawers in her room and our room. Her favorites are her drawer with wash rags in it, her drawer with all her bottoms and my sock or pajama drawer.
• She had started to really like drinking out of our cups and she does a pretty good job!

She is definitely a full-time job, but she is just getting cuter and even more fun. Her personality is the best (most days)!!