Lily is now 11 months old. She does something new and amazing every day. She now sits up like a champ. Sits from a laying down position. She gets on her knees and even gets in a push-up position but she can't seem to consistently master the crawling technique. She crawled about 4 feet for Grandpa last week but hasn't done it again since. She can pull herself up to her knees and can stand once we get her upright while holding our hands or the couch.
She LOVES bath time and splashing with her rubber duckies. That is the ONLY time that she doesn't jump with excitement when I reach my arms out to her. She just loves her splash splash time. She also loves to sit at Daddy's feet and play with his shoe strings.
She waves hello and good-bye and just in the past few days has started clapping her hands to music and, some times, just when I scream YAY to her. It's so cute. She squeals and babbles and loves the sound of her voice. She also loves to look at herself in the mirror and she loves to look at pictures of herself on the computer or on my phone. I let her play with my phone and she has deleted icons on it also. It took me about 10 minutes to find my text messaging icon. I just can't help it though because I can just turn the camera on and make it so that she can see herself in the screen and she just giggles with delight. It is so adorable. 
She loves to watch Nick, Jr. and especially to watch The Fresh Beat Band with Grandpa. I think it's cause he dances with her. She loves Miss Spider's Sunny Patch and Olivia the pig. I have caught Jeff zoning out to it when he doesn't know I'm looking. 
Our little one now has 5 teeth, 2 on the top and 3 on the bottom. This hasn't given her a better appetite though. She still is eating formula with rice cereal and stage 2 and 2.5 baby food. She LOVES green beans and will eat the whole jar. Some of her other faves are chicken and rice, peas and just plain thickened rice cereal. She doesn't eat solids or "puffs" and we are anxious for the time when she will eat real food with us. She just hasn't gotten the hang of that yet and makes the worst face when we pop a puff in her mouth. 
Her favorite toy is her laptop. She has a pink and purple one at home and a blue and yellow one at Grandma and Grandpa's. She also likes her stacking toys and loves to take the rings and just bang them against things. She still loves her woobies too and chews them until they put her to sleep. We know she is tired when we hear the sounds of wooby chewing. She really likes anything with buttons and plays with the remote controls all the time. She can switch the light switch off with prompting and gives high-fives. She wants to touch and hold everything and cries when she doesn't get her way. I'm afraid we have spoiled her rotten. It's so hard not to. She gives me the biggest open mouth smooches and tight squeezes...it warms my heart every time. I never thought I would have a child to love like this and who would love me so unconditionally. It brings me to tears almost daily.
The only real problem we continue to have is sleeping. It has gotten better but we still have a ways to go. She will surprise me and sleep the whole night through and then the next night be up every 30 minutes. Last night she slept from 8:30pm to 1am and then she woke up and would absolutely not sleep unless she was plastered to my chest. I am very sleep deprived but have definitely adjusted to survival on very little rest. The one thing that has truly suffered has been my diet and exercise. I have gained quite a bit of weight since we've been home and it pains me to look at myself. Blah. I am determined to get this under control though. Wish me luck. I need to stay healthy for myself and for Lily so I can be active with her as she grows. So there goes...a bunch of Lily babbling. I am just so amazed by her and some days I am in disbelief that this is the same child we met on May 15th who couldn't hold up her head, had no interest in toys and weighed 11 lbs. She is growing so fast and I just want to enjoy every single second with her.
