Katy's 11mnth update!

As of yesterday, our girl is now 11 mnths old! As usual, I took Katy for a weigh-in at Good Sam on Tuesday... she is now 17lbs 1oz. Once again, this showed a pretty significant weight gain - 12 oz over the month. She is eating more and more table foods, since Katy won't have anything to do with pureed baby foods! She is most happy just eating bits of whatever we are having, although we are still mainly avoiding the major allergy foods, such as nuts, eggs, and most dairy. But as she approaches the one year mark, we're letting her try more & more things, and not worrying too much if it has perhaps a little milk or butter in the ingredients, for example... seeing as she hasn't had any bad food reactions, and she so loves REAL food!

Katy's still not crawling! Over the past day or so, she doesn't seem content to stay seated, so she is constantly going over onto all fours, but just can't quite get going yet. She ends up on her stomach moving backwards, until she runs into something! So I guess only time will tell if she is going to take after me, and just skip the crawling... or whether she will suddenly figure it out.

Probably the biggest new things this past month have been in Katy's language... both speaking and sign. On July 3rd, I was feeding Katy dinner and had the Giants game on in the background. A TV commercial came on, where there was a dog running around in circles. Katy peeked around her highchair to see him, and held up her hand and did a snapping fingers motion. The sign in ASL is a combined finger snap and a pat, which of course I've been showing Katy anytime we run into a dog. Who who have guessed this would be her 1st sign?? Since then, we've seen her repeat the sign for "dog", as well as the signs for "milk", "all done", and a couple of others we're not sure of, but could be "eat" and "more".

Katy talks up a storm, and every day it sounds more and more like she is really talking. For about 3 weeks now, her new and favourite sound/word has been "yah." At first I thought it was merely her newest sound, but soon realized she was responding "yah!" when asked a question. The funniest part of it is that she will answer "yah!" to any question posed to her. ie "Katy, do you want some more banana?" "Yah!" "Katy, do you want to go watch the fireworks?" "Yah!" "Katy, would you like some cockroach soup?" "Yah!" :) Since she always has a big smile for everyone, strangers will come up and start talking to her. So it's cute to hear a "yah!" after somebody says to her, "Aren't you a pretty little girl?!" It always surprises people to hear this petite little thing responding to them, especially as most people typically thing she is younger than Katy actually is.

So, we're moving on to Katy's final month of being 0! It looks to be a fun one. We have several 1-yr old birthday parties to attend, and of course, one to plan! And the first half of August will be filled with non-stop visitors. We'll first spend a few days up in Windsor (wine country, about 2 hrs north of here), with some of the Tittle extended family... Benji's Uncle Keith & Aunt Debbie are spending a week at their timeshare. So we'll see them, including their daughter Karalee. And the Floridian Tittles will be passing through at the same time, so we will also get to see Uncle Dick & Aunt Karalee, who have not seen Katy since we visited them in Florida in early December! Then my sister Lauren and nephew Jackson come into town to stay with us for a week, followed by Benji's parents. So Katy will not suffer from lack of attention! She is going to love it. The month is going to fly by, and suddenly it's going to be time for our little girl to blow out her birthday candle!