11 Months and Growing

Weight: 18 pounds (and she can use all of them)

We are one month away from the one year mark and we cannot be enjoying this time more. Camryn's personality has developed and unfortunately it appears as if she inherited both of her parents' stubborness (what Scott and I stubborn?? NEVER!!)

I thought she would be walking by now. She cruises around the furniture well and pushes her toys all over (well until they crash into a wall); however, the little sticker will pick her legs up off the ground if you try to put her down standing up. Oh well!! It will happen when it is supposed to happen. Occasionally, she will take a few steps toward something before lowering herself to her knees. Her daycare caregivers say she isn't going to walk but run.

The differences in her tempermant between daycare and home are amusing to say the least. At home, when she is in her high chair and eating, if she does not want a particular food item or her sippy cup she will put it in her right hand and drop it off the right hand side of her chair. Does she do this at daycare - - - Nooo! At least not until the other morning when I put her in her chair and gave her sippy and she dropped it off the side. The caregiver said, "Now that's the first time she has done that." Then, just today I picked her up just when her nap was over. Was she standing up in her crib? - yes - Was she crying bloody murder? - NO- They even say that she will play in her crib. (At daycare she does not have toys in her crib unlike here!!!) Oh well, I guess every parent's hope is that his/her child behaves better when away from his/her parents.

One thing Camryn is attempting to master is climbing. It started with conquering the stairs over Christmas. A few weeks ago she decided to crawl into her rocking chair and stand-up looking over the back of her chair. She tries to crawl into her toy basket. At daycare she pushes the little chairs by the table and attempts to crawl on the table. When she is on the couch with mom and dad she crawls over to the end table and tries to crawl over it and over the box on top of it. With all this attempted climbing she is lucky there has been limited to no injury.

I haven't posted a video in awhile and I promise I will do it soon because I do have a few to share.