Standing up by myself: I can bend down and pick up blocks too 🙂

Miri loves her bike seat!

 

at Cousin Noah’s birthday party

 She ripped up the original “what I love” paper. It read “I love to wave. I like to play “pattycake” and to clap. I love playing with my cousins (and can’t wait to meet Aminah Rezzai). I like being outside. I like to drop food on the floor and watch others pick it up. I love being 11 months!”

Miriam is so close to eating birthday cake! Not too much longer….Mommy has been planning her birthday party for like 3 months now. Geez. The little girl is so active and wants to do right in the middle of everything. She’s moved to two naps during the day. She sleeps better at night (Mommy is going to credit that to the Lord, and to Miri’s new comforter from Ikea). Before she goes to sleep, she decides to be really sweet and laugh and engage in conversation, as if to say “there’s so much to do! I can’t go to sleep….” She will roll back and forth on the bed and think she’s hilarious. In Daddy’s words, “she’s the sweetest bear of all.”

She likes to try out her walking shoes. She is confident to balance herself, but still wants help walking. We make a big deal in this house whenever she does something and she will look at us like “is this ok?” and then start clapping. She trembles with joy at the sight of family, but especially her cousins. They love her too. The best thing is for Mommy and Daddy to watch her eyes when she experiences something new. She soaks it all up like a sponge and there is such wonder in her eyes. Yesterday, she sat in the shade while we gardened for 2-3 hours. She held an earthworm and talked to her blocks, and the grass, and the dog next door…

Miri has always been a little ball of joy, but it’s so fun to see her continue to develop her little personality. She loves to wave at everyone and it’s awesome to see complete strangers stop in their day and wave back. If you want your baby to recieve a lot of attention, go to any BabiesRUs. She’s becoming a little girl now, and although she will always be my baby, she’s not such a little baby anymore. Le sigh. (insert Mommy warm-fuzzy feelings here). Watch out world! Miri’s got places to see and things to do! In a month, she will be a year old and may be walking 🙂