Ella is 11 months!!!

I really can not even believe that Ella is almost one year old.  It just doesn't seem possible that I'm sitting here working on plans for her birthday party!  Where did the time go?  Did I take it all in?  Did I take enough pictures?  Who knows?!!!  I've decided not to worry about what I maybe didn't do and focus on what really matters!  My baby girl is 11 months old and such a bright spot in all of our lives!  In this past months she has changed sooo much!  I feel like she has turned into a big girl right before our eyes.  She is talking more and more and interacting with Adda while she plays.  She has started to pretend play with Adda when she plays in her kitchen and with the baby dolls.  She crawls like a champ but thinks we are crazy if we try to get her to walk more than four or five steps at a time.  Adda was the same way!  She had croup over the Christmas break and had three molars all coming in at the same time.  Poor thing was a mess for about a week.  This morning I tried to have a little photo shoot outside because it was so beautiful out! 

 A little sad that I'm making her work too hard standing next to that tree.  She didn't really like the way the bark felt!

 Watching her sister!  She spends most of the day watching everything Adda does!

 All those pictures and standing wore her out!

      Some of her milestones this month:

•  She started using "more" and "all finished" in sign language!
• Words: Mama, Dada, Adda (only a few times), Papa, Hi, Wawa (water), and a few others when we ask her to say them.  These are the words she is saying in context. 
• Starting to take steps around things when she is standing.  
• Has 6 teeth right now and two more molars that are just about to come through.  
• Eats almost anything we are eating, or at least want to try it.  I would have never done that with Adda but with Ella I am much more laid back about what she tries.  
• Got to taste a French Breakfast Puff on Christmas morning!  Now I think she has a little sweet tooth! 
• Favorite Food: bananas, grapes, Annie's brand Cheddar Bunnies (she is over Cheerios because her sister gave her a taste of the Cheddar Bunny), sweet potatoes, apples, and peas!  We gave her some spaghetti the other night and she was not too sure about the pasta.