11 months old, and hooraying is still her favourite thing to do!
Apparently so is ripping the sticker off her vest!
So we didn't really get too many pictures this time around!
but we did manage to capture her latest party trick - standing up!
and some of those giggles! She's still the happiest baby in town!
I still can't get over how grown up she looks now that she's standing all over the place!
She can now even get a little closer to her fave fishy friends at the garden centre, much to her delight.
If you're happy and you know it is still hands down her favourite song. We have a few different versions we listen to - and so the verses come in different orders, but she knows whichever one we are listening to when the hooray verse is coming up and she throws her arms up in anticipation before they've even said 'say hooray' it's so cute! and even cuter how excited she gets about doing it! She can also clap her hands, and slap her knees for the other verses.
I think if she could choose any activity or toy to play with then it would be a stack of books every time. She just can't get enough! and once we read a whole pile she will reach for the discard pile and want to start them all over again. This animal book is a fave, she loves to lift the flaps down and see what the different animal noises are. This was also a favourite of baby Ella's so I love that they love the same things! Flap books have also overtaken her love for touchy feely books at the moment.
Speaking of touchy feely, I saw this picture of Addi at nursery from the nursery Facebook page and it just melted my heart! Look at her doing sticking for the first time! She looks so into it!
I also celebrated my first Mother's Day as a mother of two! It was as dreamy as I imagined, and I just loved all the homemade cards and thoughtful gifts. Addi made me this card at nursery and it was so super sweet!
Addison also has found a new love of swings!
They are definitely her fave feature at the park.
She's still not so sure about the slide...
but is definitely sold on the swings!
There has been plenty of sister loving going on around here... matching dresses -and matching bows on Mother's Day!
and this was a happy co-incidence finding Addison had the same colour dress as Ella! There is nothing more that Ella loves than matching with her little sis!
She also feels extra lucky when she gets to hold Addi or give her a snuggle! She's forever trying to smother her with love...sometimes a little too much smothering!! but her heart is in the right place!
More matching bows and navy!
and a little book reading sesh at the library!
with some frolicking amongst the daffs one afternoon at Floors Castle.
How I love this little duo of beauts!
As well as pulling all the books out continuously in the playroom, another fave past time was pulling all the pictures and magnets off the freezer. So I gradually raised everything higher and higher until I thought it was out her reach...but apparently nothing was safe because she even managed to rip down the pictures at the highest level so we now just have a plain freezer much to Addi's disappointment.
She still has the best curls around!
Look at those two peeking out the front of her hat!!
She also got to take Rosco the bunny home one week from nursery and so he accompanied us on all our fun that week,
and then we did a little write up in the nursery scrapbook all about it!
Her last first of the month was her first bike ride! We were surprised at how much she seemed to enjoy it! The only way baby Ella would tolerate a cycle ride is if she was allowed her dummy! (and plenty of snacks as rewards!) Although her helmet did keep slipping down, and so we hadn't even realised that she had fallen asleep at the end! We've since got her a smaller helmet and so she's all set to be a cycling pro, just like her daddy!
11 months - you've been a fun one! I can't even believe next month we'll be celebrating a whole year of you in our lives!
