PaPaw and Grandma C have a fun place to play that KiKi discovered this weekend. She’s looked into these places before, but suddenly she decided she could actually enter! 
Notice that her sister is more interested in watching Bears football than following her. And no, we don’t let her watch this closely, just had to capture Kinlee’s adventures before we redirected Braska to her chair.
No it’s not that high, but still… I was doing dishes and her banging in the drawer got quiet. And there she was. I grabbed my phone and snapped the first pic, then she took a moment to figure out how to get in and up she popped. Like “See, I can do it!”
I’m afraid this will mean that we find her in all kinds of places now… any guesses on where might be next?
Holiday time is a fun time for mommies of little girls. There are so many cute things, and thankfully, Braska has a good stash to share with KiKi. I can’t find the old pics right now of Braska in this, but I hope to….someday. Or never. We’ll see.
And this one was an outfit that says “Baby’s first Christmas” on it that we picked up a few months ago at the resale shop we love. 
There’s one more, but I haven’t managed to get a picture yet. I’ll try to get to that soon since time’s running out, and it’s not cool to have a kid in “Christmas wear” post Christmas!
KiKi got to participate in the photo shoot of cute p-jammies yesterday that Braska and Jack had. She didn’t want to be involved as much as we had hoped, but that’s ok.
Toward the end, she sat in the chair and decided that was kind of fun.
As we put the hat on her, she had a similar face, but it was leaning toward the unhappy side, ending up in pure torture, if you ask her. (But don’t miss Jack’s face on the left side of the pic below. Priceless!)
And then this one is from tonight…she didn’t do her best performance, but she’s pretty good with mama, dada, and sis-sis, and usually belle-belle too.
Stats: 18 lbs 7.5 oz, 28 inches. She’s wearing mostly 12 months, especially for length, though she can swim in the room around her in a 12 month sleeper.
Highlights from this month: This kid is eating everything, and I’m continually amazed. She likes fish, she likes veggies of all kinds. She likes chicken and rice, stroganoff, tortillas, pasta, and a variety of fruits. She can eat a whole multi-grain/fruit bar for breakfast in no time at all. She much prefers to feed herself, but she’s been better lately about taking from a spoon as well. She can drink from a straw like a pro, and she does well with an open cup too.
She is walking with only one hand assistance, and she loves going around with the walking toy or anything else she can push and walk behind…laundry basket, Braska’s tricycle, empty boxes, etc.
She is mostly sleeping through the night, but still has fairly frequent nights of waking at least once, sometimes going to sleep again quickly, sometimes not so much. She’s got 8 teeth now and I think there might be some more on the way soon.
She misses her sister when she’s at school each morning, but she’s adjusting pretty well. They do really love to play together, and if KiKi would stop yanking Braska’s glasses off her face, things would be just about adorable when they interact.
Here’s to month 11! (More posts soon!!! So many pics to share!)
KiKi went with Rachel the other night for some errands and to play with her Uncle Patrick, and Rach snapped this with her super nifty Droid while they were out. It ranks as one of my fave pics so far.
These photo sessions are getting a bit more difficult. Before I could get the first shot, she had a letter in hand. (Don’t mind the diaper that’s a little too big… ran out of our normal kind.) 
Then Mommy took it away in an attempt to get a pretty shot. Yeah, that worked well. 
So I gave up and let her go at them. 
Highlights this month: She’s finally cruising. It seems she took a little break in her speedy development between pulling to stand and cruising. That’s ok with me, but now she’s on the move again. Several people are betting she’ll walk in the next 6 weeks… I’m not sure, but it wouldn’t surprise me. She loves to walk with two hands held, but she’s hesitant with just one.
She’s enjoying feeding herself, prefers it BY FAR to being fed with a spoon. She likes all kinds of veggies, bananas and apples, multigrain fruit bars, all kinds of crackers, breads, puffs and cereals. But as for *real* food, we’re struggling because we’re real-food challenged around here. We need to fix food she can eat, but that’s going to be a big change. It’s a process to eat less processed foods.
She’s working on teeth 5 and 6 right now, on either side of her lower front two. Here’s a peek at 5 of them. 
The uppers are through, one more than the other, and the 6th tooth is just finishing cutting through. How painful must teething be?!?
In the last couple days she’s decided she wants to clap, so that’s fun. At first I thought she was trying to sign more, but it’s evolved into a flat-handed clap, so we just chime in with “YAY!” whenever she starts a’clappin’. Here’s a few seconds of her showing her new skill, though a little dark.
