Aubrey is just about 11 months now. She is always showing her diva personality and loves to explore. In new situations she is a little shy at first and doesn't like people to crowd her. She needs a couple minutes to be comfortable before coming out of her shell. Once she is comfortable though, she is so friendly and outgoing and loves to be the center of attention!
Food: She loves to eat! She still drinks quite a bit of formula.. about 30oz a day and eats baby food for breakfast, lunch (x2 jars), snack, and dinner. She also eats "people food"! She is actually starting to refuse her baby food because she would rather have the real thing. At home and at her school we give her almost anything. Some of her favorites are sausage, bananas, bagels, pancakes and vanilla wafers! Kesar and I told each other that we HAVE to eat more healthy because she is now eating everything we are.
Sleep: At school she only naps once a day for about an hour and a half. There is just so much going on there she doesn't want to nap. She makes up on the weekends and naps 2x a day for about 4 hours total. Her lack of napping at her school drives me nuts but she is really learning SO much there is makes up for it. She goes to bed around 7:30 (sometimes 6:30 on the weekends) and wakes up at 6:00, regardless of what time she goes to sleep.
Milestones: Aubrey loves standing. She really loves cruising between and around furniture. We got her a walker/push toy thing and she LOVES walking while pushing it around the house. She looks so proud as she does it! Sometimes she even looks at your and waves, "baba". She loves climbing up the stairs and our built in bookshelves. I even caught her trying to hang on her jumperoo the other day! She waves "goodbye" and "hello" and has started to say "baba" (byebye) when waving goodbye. She also repeats EVERYTHING you say. She calls Kesar "Dada" but we still don't know is she actually knows what she is saying. She recently has started doing hi fives! If you hold your hand up she hits your hand and then starts laughing hysterically! She is starting to have her own words for objects. She consistently calls the ball "ba"and the dog "da". And I swear sometimes when you say "Hi" it sounds like she says "Hiii" right back!
We had her at the beach and pool and she loves both. She is defiantly a water baby! I finally got rid of her bathtub seat and she just flops like a fish all around the bathtub. She loves to lay on her stomach and kick her feet, she's always all over the place. People always comment on how "busy" she is.
This week my parents are moving down here. I am so excited for Aubrey to build a relationship with them. It's hard having a child and being so far away from family. Sometimes I feel bad because she won't have that "big family" experience. But then I remember the reasons why we moved down here and one of them is that we are able to give Aubrey everything and more.
