11 Months Old!!

Helen is just getting so much personality and is so much fun! She crawls like the wind and gets into everything. She is so close to walking we can't believe it! She stands unassisted for a few seconds and cruises all around the room holding on to the furniture. She is very dare devilish and leaps out to things not quite in her reach just to give me heart attacks!

Helen is still loving her bottles, she has 3 or 4 a day and drinks 6 to 8 ounces at a time. She goes to bed around 8 pm. She still wakes up most nights for a bottle, around 4 am, but then she will go back to sleep until 8 or 9 am. I hope she doesn't starve to death when we have to cut out the formula! She cut her top 2 teeth this month, so now she has 4 teeth! She loves to eat puffs, teething biscuits, and fruit juice popsicles. She has tasted ice cream and cake icing and finds them both to be quite satisfactory! She eats most baby food, but still doesn't like a lot of texture and only wants a few bites at a time. She is wearing mostly 9 month clothes and some 12 month sizes. She wears a size 3 diaper. She weighs about 18 pounds and is getting so tall! She can reach alot of things we wish she couldn't! Helen got to swim for the first time this month at our cousin's pool. She had the best time! She loved the float. We can't believe that Helen is almost one!