Months 10 & 11

Weight: 20.4lbs  
Height: Still around 27 inches, she was too much of a wiggle worm
*We can't be positive about these, they were done at home by us so maybe a little user error *   
Clothing: She can still wear some of her 6-9 month clothes but mostly 9-12 months now
Diapers: Size 3's

10 Months

11 Months

  Feeding: B has been eating three meals of solids a day with a snack or two depending.  She still loves fruits and veggies but is starting to want more carbs and  cheese, I wonder where she gets that from.  She loves to eat whatever we are eating and most of the time half of our meals have been consumed by her, even with her three little teeth.  My milk supply is getting lower and lower so our pedi approved us starting to add in 1/4 whole milk with 3/4 pumped milk.  I am sad we didn't make it the full year on just nursing but so proud of how far we have come.  It does look like she will get breast milk through a year and for that I am grateful!
 
Sleep: It seems like she has been adding time to her overnight sleep schedule so that is playing with her naps now.  Before this little change she would wake up around 6:30am and go down for her first nap around 9:30am, sleep for about an hour and then be up until 2:30pm when she went down for another hour or so.  She would then go down for bed around 7:30pm and then sleep through the night, thankfully that part hasn't changed.  I am guessing she is going to start cutting out a nap but we will see.  

Updates: Big news here, we have a walker (as of 10/26/12) on our hands and sister can move!  She has been all over the place and loves her new independence.  We took her to the park a week or so ago and right when I got her out of her bike she took off running and face planted into the cement, her poor little nose had quite the scrape.  She just wants to go and walking just isn't fast enough anymore.  She is also a babbling machine, she chats and chats, she has three "words" so far: Momma, Dadda and HI (super shrill).  Grammy has been working on signs with her that we continue through the week so she can now sign: milk, more, eat and all done.  She has also been waving hi and bye for a while but she has added blowing kisses, so cute.  I love that she is understanding what we say and sign, it makes communication that much easier - although she has started getting frustrated when she wants something and can't let us know.

She is completely my daughter in her music regard, she loves it and dances anytime she hears it, even yesterday at the grocery store to the Christmas music.  She was quite the show for the other shoppers.  Brae also loves her books, she loves to sit and look at the picture board books we have.  She has the 100 first words and has been pointing to the dog when we ask, she also loves the kitty picture (a sign she recognizes) like her Grammy's Mya kitty.

We have been getting her used to the potty and so far she has gone in there about 5 times.  We try in the morning, if we aren't running out the door, and before bath time.  She knows that before the bath/shower she has to potty so when we get her nakey she goes straight to her potty, such a smartie pants!  Overall she is growing so much and learning all kinds of new things, we can't believe in just a few weeks she will be a big one year old (where oh where has the time gone).

9 Months

Weight: 19.4lbs  
Height: 27.8 inches
Clothing: 6-9 months
Diapers: Size 3's


 
Feeding: Bottle feeding pumped milk and nursing about every 3 hours during the day and goes around 10 hours at night, she still does 2 meals a day of solids.  We have added yogurt to the normal fruit, or toast and scrambled eggs.  She has tried all kinds of new foods and seriously LOVES food, sister can eat!  She loves her puffs but we found these "wagon wheels" that have a lot more texture and are easier for her to hold so she has loved those lately.  My milk is starting to get lower and it is really scaring me, I am not ready to give nursing up quite yet and it doesn't seem like she is either. 

Sleep: Teething has continued to be tough on our sleep schedule but little miss did get her two bottom front  teeth in, left one first!  For the most part the Natural Orajel and IB Prof. has taken the edge off the pain for her.  We still have a sleeping through the night baby and for that I am so grateful!  

Updates: We have some fairly big news, some things have changed with our personal life and we have decided for now I am only going to work p/t at the Dr's office.  I really love my job there and the staff is fantastic so being able to do p/t for now is perfect.  Over the next few months we will see how that goes and reevaluate then, for now Mommy is VERY happy!  
We have a cruiser on our hands!  For a little bit we thought she may skip crawling and go directly to walking but she decided she digs the crawling thing and has backed off a bit on walking - she knows she can get there quicker and on her own by crawling.  She loves to stand and walk around the furniture though so maybe she will decide to go back that way soon.  She has also started "talking" a lot more - she now says "Momma" for me and if she gets upset/tired, she likes to say "yea yea yea", she also understands more when we talk.  She laughs when we say "no" which is totally a Mommy trait we are hoping to break!  I cannot believe she has been "out" as long as she was "in" now!