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My Sweet Baby

…is about to outgrow babyhood. Now 11 months old, Cecilia will be turning 1 in three very short weeks. When did this happen?

All of a sudden she’s cruising the furniture like she owns it. She’s become a baby human vacuum–crayons and chalk have been her favorite things to sneak in her mouth. Just last month right before and during our vacation she cut three more teeth. She’s has her central and lateral incisors on top and her central incisors and left lateral on bottom. Her favorite thing to chew on….

…her thumb. She’s been my only thumb-sucker.  And that’s her all time favorite pose. She reminds me of Prince John in the old Disney Robin Hood animated movie. Speaking of things to chew on, she loves to eat. I’m convinced she has a hollow leg. I think she actually eats more than Muffin. She has joined the other kids in her love of pesto pasta. She graciously eats everything I give her and claps when she wants more.

She loves the swimming pool and the last few weeks has enjoyed playing catch with one of our splash balls. I would toss it into her baby floaty and she’d pick it up and place it outside of the floaty. I’d clap. She’d clap and squeal in delight. We’d play this game for a good half hour. She also loves when Fulton jumps into the water toward her and splashes her. She’d laugh and kick in excitement.

She is still the joy of all her siblings and her parents. The kids speaking in their high pitched baby talk hasn’t worn off yet. And they have all kinds of nicknames for her that I quite frankly refuse to repeat….but they are so silly that they are still worth mentioning if only for the sake of posterity.

• The Baby Beets Towel (really where did they come up with this??)
• Chachumfetas (and this? that’s not even a word in another language!)
• Pose (at least this one rhymes with one of her names–Rose.)

Shortly after we returned from vacation I ran out of milk and had to ween her. She transitioned smoothly and we still have plenty of cuddle time. I love to carry her around in our Ergo. What did I ever do without it?! We recently moved her out of our room and up to the guest room until she’s ready to transition into the girls’ room. Weening her and moving her out was very sad for me, but in moving her out, I slept a consecutive 8 hours for the first time in over a year. That, at least, has been enjoyable. Finally she enjoyed her first time without Adam or I last week when the Andersons babysat the kids. She didn’t even miss us. That’s okay. She was so excited to see me the next morning to start another day of growing, learning and loving.

Thank you, Cecilia Rose, for being such a blessing to our family! We love you!