Eleven Months

So this is a little early for Kimberly's 11 month post, but oh well.

I thought Kimberly was going to be my shy, reserved and observant little girl. That's how she has been so far. But recently she has started coming out of her shell. And it turns out she is a little ham.

She has learned how to please the crowds. Her best tricks are hiding her face in my shoulder when someone says hi to her. Then she glances at them with a big grin until they ooh and aah at her. She does patty cake on demand. Every. Single. Time. When she gets in trouble for pulling the clean laundry out of the basket (or any number of things like that) she sticks out her bottom lip and bats her eyes. When that gets a laugh out of me, she smiles and claps. (What a stinker!)

And the trick that gets the best response from her sisters is when she sticks out her tongue and pants like a puppy. They LOVE THAT!! Probably because they have always thought she was their little puppy anyway.

No walking yet, (Hallelujah!) but she pulls up to furniture and walks along it.

She shakes her head for "no" and grunts for "yes." She says three words: "Mama", "Dada," and "nana" for everything else.

Her favorite game to play is hide and seek. She lifts up the cushion on the rocking chair, shoves her toys underneath, and puts it back down. Then when she lifts the cushion again, she is pleasantly surprised to find her toy still there. Maybe that's peek a boo, not hide and seek. Whatever you call it, she loves it.

Kimberly is such a light in our lives. We love her and can't wait to celebrate her first birthday next month!

A note about this picture: Kimberly has never been a fan of the pacifier. I tried several different brands and styles with her, but it just wasn't her thing. When she was just a few months old, she started sucking the middle and ring fingers of her right hand. Always her right hand. Always those two fingers. That was how she learned to sooth herself at night when she would wake up. But the problem was that as soon as she fell asleep, her fingers would fall out of her mouth and she would be awake again. So she started using her left hand to hold her fingers in her mouth. What a silly girl!