11 Months

My beautiful baby girl is 11 months old today! Wow, how these months have flown by, and we've enjoyed her so much! She's been learning to "sign" a bit in just the past few weeks. She:

• waves "bye, bye"
• does "so big"
• signs "more" and "all done", but I don't think she's grasped the concept
• claps
• plays peek-a-boo
  

She'll also try and mimic things Henri & Johnny do like putting their hands on the sides of their face. Cosette crawls in many different ways--mostly using the normal crawl, but also changes to a bear crawl and occasionally does the "Ava" crawl (scootching one leg underneath her on smooth floors). She pulls to stand on anything she can pull up on, and cruises just slightly--a step here, a turn there--before falling to the ground.

Cosette babbles a lot, but doesn't say words. Though we can get her to say specific consonants now and then like "da, da, da, da" and "ma, ma, ma, ma." Mostly her babbling is a mixture of many sounds.

Cosette's favorite place to be is under the dining table eating any scraps of food she can find. Seriously, as soon as she's set down, she crawls straight for the table.

She's afraid of the vacuum cleaner and of dogs.

Cosette loves her brother and lights up every time she sees Henri. They like to laugh together. But like any baby sister with a 3-year old brother, her laughs often turn to tears or cries of protest when she gets knocked over, a toy taken away, or hugged too hard.

We're all loving this girl: her smiles, her laughs, and her general babyhood. Plus God gave her to us. We love her. We love God. Thank you Lord Jesus for Cosette Abrielle.