11 Months Old!

Oh Baby Leyton, where has the year gone?  You are so big and smart!  You give sweet baby kisses.  You play ball.  You've figured out how to blink and it is very funny to watch you practice.  You keep us busy and very entertained.  We love you silly kid!!

Daddy got off early one day this week, so we took a trip to the zoo, and this time you stayed awake.  You loved the animals!

Well.. most of the animals.  You were not too impressed with the rhinos.  They were making a strange noise and you were not a fan.

The giraffes were much more entertaining.

And the pandas can't be beat.

Not a real polar bear.

But this one is... boring...

Where's the monkey!

We took one of these monkeys home with us!

Daddy says you're a little young for lipstick.

Luckily it's just your raisin and prune yogurt.

You crawled in there by yourself and had a blast!

We tried taking some 11 month photos.  This one is just a camera trick!  

That's more like it.

Love that smile!

Always a lady.

A beautiful lady!

You are growing so fast, but you will ALWAYS be our baby!

Silly kids

So I was planning to download some pictures that we took yesterday at the park -which you will find at the end of this post- but first, let's see what Daddy and Leyton do during Daddy/Daughter time.

As you can see... I live with TWO silly kids!

 Now for the post that I planned on doing.  Leyton loves to go to the park near our house.  Her favorite game is to crawl away from Mommy and Daddy as fast as she can, grab a piece of grass, and put it in her mouth.

She also loves to be tossed in the air until Mommy has a heart attack.

Chillax Mom!

When she is at home, her new thing is to pull up on EVERYTHING.  She has been pulling up for several weeks, but not frequently, and she generally would get stuck and need help sitting back down.  Now she is all smiles!

(check out her new jeggings!)

We also may have her first 'word' other than MaMa and DaDa.  A few days ago she started with what sounds like "uh-Huh."  It is the same sound I make when she jabbers at me, and I answer 'yes' and 'uh-huh.'  Now she says it over and over again.  She also likes to honk your nose.  I will say, 'Where's Mommy's nose?" and she will point to my nose and then laughs when I say "Honk Honk."  She also knows what her ball is.  And when she points at things, we say the name of it and then she tries to say it back.  Of course she can't say the actual words, but she usually gets the syllables right.  So 'Sasha' and 'Panda' are 'DaDuh' and ball is 'Ba.'  The baby talk to coming right along!

I tried to get a picture of her with this on her head, but she was too fast for me.  She was playing peek-a-boo.  Silly kid!

Our Little Pumpkin

We did a little photoshoot to try and get a picture for Leyton's birthday invitation.  I am neither crafty nor creative, so I figured I should start the planning waaay ahead of time.  I already ordered the cake pan, so I can do lots of experiments prior to the big day!

Shout out to Auntie Sonya for the homemade headband flower!

Yep... she broke it...