11 month photos!

Finally, here are her 11 month photos!

It's getting harder and harder to have her look at the camera!

Of course, her monthly shoot won't be complete without her cupcake photo!

Fun facts @ 11 months:

* Elle now has 8 teeth! 4 at the top and 4 at the bottom.

* She now wears clothes for 12-18 months although some of her 9 month shirts still fit. Since she has long legs, she wears pants and footed pajamas for 18 months now.

* Still sleeps from 8 pm to 630 pm -700 am. Sometimes, she sleeps in on weekends and wakes up around 8:00 am or so. She has longer awake times now.  We think she's slowly transitioning to having only one nap a day.

*When she wakes up in the morning, she will quietly sit and wait for Daddy Jarbs to wake up and come inside her room.  A few times  we've heard her call "dadadada". Daddy Jarbs usually gives her first milk bottle in the morning so it's kinda funny that she knows to call for him instead of mommy.

* Attached to Mommy Jarbs. I am not sure if this is just a phase but she wants her mommy pretty much all the time, even if Daddy Jarbs is holding her! She cries when I leave her in the living room to play and calls "mum mum mum". On rare occasions that she wakes up at night, we can hear her say "mum mum mum". Of course, I couldn't help but come to her room.

* She is attached to her stuffed bunny who she sleeps with every night. She nibbles on the bunny's ears and hugs the bunny all night. I must admit, the bunny kinda stinks since she puts in her mouth lol. We do wash it but after a couple of days it stinks again lol.

* Climbs on the couch. Initially, she needs the help of a pillow to help prop her up but now, she can climb up on her own.

* Shows all her tricks (touching her "ulo"/head, touching her "ilong"/nose, clapping her hands and turning her head on one side) when she knows she's in trouble.

* Has figured her way out to escape from the baby gate in the living room.

* Shakes her head when she's done eating, done drinking her milk or when she does not want to eat. She pushes the food away too.

* Elle can stack and unstack her stacking cups and put her musical egg into the cup when you ask her to. 

* She likes picking up and flipping through her books.

* When we are busy doing something, she grabs our attention by putting her face right in front of our face and plants a kiss on our cheeks. Yeah, she's an attention hogger :).

* Can walk when you hold her in one hand. Sometimes she steps sideways (instead of going forward) and it's pretty funny.

* Her teacher at day care said she's very independent. She does not want to be held, rocked to sleep and be fed. She likes doing things on her own.

* When you say "bye", she puts her palm against her mouth and gives a flying kiss. 

* Is into throwing things! When she's on her high chair, crib or changing table, she throws all the stuff she can get a hold of and watch it fall down.

* Changing her diapers is getting to be quite a challenge. She wriggles free and want to sit up. I have to come up with different things to distract her.

* Can stand for more than a couple of seconds without holding unto anything. She has also taken a couple of steps and is on her way to full on walking!

* Can go up the stairs (with us right behind her)

* She still loves to feed herself. We have given her different kinds of food. Recently, she has tried tuna and a couple of scoops of ice cream.

* Her teachers at day care have commented a couple of times that she is very smart.

* Elle loves playing in the outdoor playground at day care. Her teacher told me that her and her bff Lucy cry when they take them back into the baby room.