Dearest Leah,
YOU are Eleven Months now! This past month has been beyond
amazing because you have made so many huge accomplishments – your dad and I consider
our minds Officially. Blown.
Early in the month you began waving hello and good bye.
Which is obscenely adorable because it’s more like a flap, than a wave. But it
was so cool to see the first time you really understood what it meant. You were
waving bye-bye as Daddy drove away in his truck! And yes, I cried.
Sitting up in the shopping cart like a big girl!
Halloween was a hoot. We gathered a few of your future BFF's and we partied hardy until 6:30pm! Which was a little passed your bed time, but you did just fine. Until Day Light Savings started and that totally screwed with your sweet little mind. For a week straight you were up at 5am. NOT A HAPPY MOMMA. So we pushed your schedule back an hour and you adapted quite well. Now you stay up till 7pm, right after the Seinfeld reruns are over! (not that either of us get to watch them)
We also celebrated your very first Thanksgiving! The thankfulness took place at your Great Grandma Marjorie's house. Great Grandpa was there of course, too. It was so much fun to watch you with the entire family. You played hard, and then ate dinner with everyone. Not too much of your food ended up on the carpet...
Can't decide if you look more like Silvio Dante or Robert De Niro here...
(not exactly the perfect background but the sentiment is there)
Pulling yourself up onto furniture peeked your curiosity and
quickly lead to you being brave enough to move along the furniture, and figure out how to lower yourself down to retrieve the items you’ve flung off of
whatever surface you have pulled yourself up to. And you can crawl faster than the speed of
light! I think what cracks us up is how you’ve gotten the concept of “chase”. Except
for when we start to chase you. As soon as you realize you are being chased you
squeal and roll over on to your back and start giggling uncontrollably. Which
makes us giggle uncontrollably. Game Over.
Speaking of giggling. There is one particular phrase that
makes you absolutely lose your mind. And we have no idea why. But you literally
get this guttural laugh that makes me almost pee my pants. You laugh so hard
that you eventually go silent and just shake with hilarity. The phrase is “bless
you”. I said it one time after you sneezed, and you got this huge smile on your
face. So I kept doing it. And it still works now at any time. It’s almost like instead of 'Bless You' I said “ You are sooooo good looking!" And you totally got it.
Because you are your mother's daughter.
You are starting to babble quite a bit more. Making "mehm-mehm-mehm" sounds and "geh-geh-geh" (Giggidy, anyone?) Of course I am praying to hear a MA-MA, but realize it doesn't mean anything until YOU actually know what it means. P.S. Since I started writing this you have now added "Dah-dah-dah" "Buh-buh-buh" to your repertoire.
Every single day with you is more amazing than the last. I love watching you play, and sleep, and crawl. I love the way you look exactly like your daddy when you first wake up in the morning. Every time you laugh it's almost as magical as hearing your heartbeat for the first time. You are our world. And we love you so very much.
Can't wait to see what the next month brings!
Love,
Momma
