June 03, 2008
Tabby - 11 months
Beautiful girl, you're almost one year old!
This month you have started to move around a little, developed more & more babble, increased your intake of solid food, decreased your intake of milk, had your first swim, learned to adore your Grandad, and suffered bad constipation and another ear infection. An eventful handful of weeks!
You're such a total daddys girl too, and you've started to say "Daddy" in the cutest slightly English accent. Harry didn't have an English accent at all so I'm really hoping that you do have one for a while! Also, if you could learn to say MUMMY that would be nice. I must say it to you 102938102931 times per day and you still won't repeat it!
You still really thrive on being out & about seeing different people and places, but as your ability to get around improves you're quite liking being at home too. You can't crawl yet but you can kind of shuffle around although not in the direction you want to go in! You've also started to pull yourself up to your knees.
With this movement comes the inevitable falls and OH, the DRAMA!! Your brothers were quite easy to calm after a fall but you are UPSET and you are going to make sure that we KNOW ABOUT IT!! I am fascinated by these differences that I see in you, the drama and the emotion, and try to relate them back to myself as a girl so that I can understand them. I do understand them too, I totally get them. I hope that I can always do this, my little drama queen.
I look at you now on the verge of being a toddler and leaving your babyhood behind. So sad that these days are going by so quickly, but also so excited to see the little girl that you are turning into. In some ways these days have been hard to sit back and relax and take in but mostly they've been this amazing roller coaster ride of joy and happiness to have this beautiful little girl in our lives.
I love you little girl,
Mama
xxx