Liberty Grace 11 Months

Liberty is 11 months old!! Someone please tell me WHERE the time goes.. and how do I make it STOP!?!?! I can't believe that in a month she will be ONE!! It makes me happy and sad all at the same time. It's fun to see her grow up, but I wish sometimes that she could just stay my sweet little baby forever.


Things She is Doing Now :
*She's eating puffs again! Well she still gags on them and pukes but it's getting less and less! Oh and she can pick them up one by one and feed herself! She also today on her 11month birthday, had a WHOLE jar of organic bananas! That now makes it TWO jars completely eaten by Libby!! She hasn't been eating well with her bottle lately, barely making 20 oz a day (UGH.. the feeding issues are never ending it seems) But they are switching her to a new formula that her Pediatrician had to sign a referral for since it's prescription only.. and we should be able to pick that up next week sometime. We're hoping she starts drinking more with this kind, and since it's a special formula for Preemies, we are hoping it will tailor to her needs more than the Alimentum :) Guess we will just have to wait and see.

*She has gotten bigger! Well we won't know officially until next week exactly how big she is, but I'm sure she weighs 18 lbs now!! We weighed her on our scale at home and it said she weighed 18.6 so YAY Libby! She is getting all these adorable rolls everywhere & she's finally getting a bum :) complete with a dimple or two.

*We got her a little walker and she loves that thing. She doesn't walk in it yet, but she does move forward a litle bit or backwards and when she does she screams with excitement and gets this huge proud smile on her face :)

*She loves bath time, and I've started to take them with her in the evenings since it's hard on my back and baby belly to lean over and hold her since we have all tile tubs and they are pretty deep ... She will sit on my lap and just kick and kick and laugh and laugh. She likes to just sit there and be held too, she really is the sweetest little girl we know. Her daddy plays with the bath toys with her and she will scream and growl at them.. She is such a character. She has figured out that they squirt water, and so she will squirt the water in her mouth, which we all know how I am with germs & sanitizer, it freaks me out, but Aaron keeps reassuring me that she will be fine. Oh & Yes, I admit, I STILL carry hand sanitizer around in my purse, have it in every room in the house.. the list goes on haha.

*She plays with all her toys much more now and will sit and babble at her violet dog. Most of all though her favorite thing if all is BOOks she LOVES books and is always wanting us to read to her. Her fab book is still Hop on Pop.. I need to get her reactions on video, because it's priceless. When pat goes to sit on the cactus she will scream at the top of her lungs and put her hands out on the page to stop him lol... She gets so into them and it's just amazing to sit and watch her loook at every page and listen to your every word. She may be delayed with gross motor skills and have feeding issues. But man is she smart!

*She has a love for tags and blankets, and is still sucking her thumb. I call her my little Linus because she reminds Aaron and I of Linus on Charlie brown with his blankey and thumb.

*She's definitely started to go through separation anxiety because if I leave her sight for even a moment, she freaks out. She gets shy when her therapists come during the week too and will always reach out for me and say Mama. She says mama and dada a lot more now, and Aaron and I are loving it!

My favorite things about her right now are:
*Her personality just keeps getting bigger everyday and her smile just lights up my life. I can be feeling so sick and in a bad mood and all she has to do is smile and it's better.

*All her new chunky little wrinkles and rolls. She loves to r tickled and just has the cutest sweetest little giggle that just turns into uncontrollable laughter that makes your heart melt. Oh and her chubby little cheeks, I just love them.

*Her sparkly blue eyes that dance when she laughs and I just love seeing them light up when she experiences something new.

Things she isn't doing..
Basically the same as the last update. She still can't go from laying down to sitting position, can't crawl, and obviously not walking yet either. She is getting a lot stronger though and were hoping this is the month that she will learn to crawl... All we know is that she will get there eventually & in the mean time we love her little immobile self :) I'm taking advantage of it and just holding her and cuddling with her as much as I can before she's on the move and too busy to cuddle with her mama.

She is such a sweetheart and will lay with her head on my chest and arms around my neck while we hang out and watch Elmos world or baby Einstein. We will ask for a kiss and she will smile and give a huge wet open mouth kiss complete with drool all over your face. She loves to touch our face and smile. For the most part, she is just as sweet as can be and always so happy and cuddly.