Wow!! How can it be that our little girl is 11 months old already!?!? We are 1 month away until 1 year old....It's crazy how fast time is going by (Gil has some theory about it a space/time continuum/ temporal siphon blah blah blah or something...ha ha), but I wouldn't change it for the world. It's amazing how much love you have for someone so little and watching her grow is my favorite thing to do...
Last month I forgot to mention how she plays with her paci and turns it around in circles when in her mouth... She will sometimes put her paci in our mouth....Also forgot to add that she is figuring out how to climb up onto things to reach (like her wipes container she steps up on to reach things on the coffee table), She had her 2nd cold, and is getting more and more sassy of a personality everyday (Gil says it's not his fault....yeah right!) and She's been recognizing her name more... She's been loving to grab the back of her hair and pull it sometimes, silly baby..... ;-)
This past month she is pulling herself up on everything and standing better alone.. Learning to climb up things. When she stands up she hangs onto things and walks she's such a fast walker that way... She took her first steps... We are trying to work on her more with walking but seems it has to be her idea.. She's also eating more foods. She's talking more and recognizing things like dogs, mommy and daddy, she recognizes people she knows... She loves dogs and tries saying dog and she also tries saying Mickey when she sees Mickey Mouse... She's still got her little attitude where she screams at us. We are working on her with telling her no when she does that.. She knows when she's not supposed to be doing something cuz she'll look right at us and smile and then keep going when we tell her no.. She's got her waving down and also clapping. She enjoys trying to make us clap too. We are working on her blowing kisses she kinda just puts her finger to her mouth and licks it.. Ha.. She's always loved being outside (just like her Daddy), so we try taking her out as often as we can when it's nice out whether it's to a park, going for a walk or just outside walking around the apartments. She loves dancing to songs. She loves her Mickey and Minnie still... definitely more and more of a sassy personality everyday and keeps us busy all the time.. She tries doing motions to the itsy bitsy spider song sometimes and patty cake too... We just started doing This little piggy song with her toes.. She learned how to drink from a straw her first time was when we went on a walk and stopped at 7/11 and got a Slurpee and Gil wanted to try to see if she'd drink it (Classic Gil...) she talked and laughed while it was in her mouth then realized she could suck it and boy did she learn quick. Ha. She's been sucking on the apple sauce containers too and loves those and the yogurt tubes.
We are working on planning her 1st B-day party in Wisconsin then another one here in Colorado... We are doing a Minnie Mouse theme for her and I'm so excited, I've got so many ideas I wanna make for it so i gotta get going with it here soon.. It's gonna come by so quickly... :-(
If you've been reading my blogs you know that we are on a search to purchase a home for us and try saving a little bit of money especially since we are paying about a thousand dollars for rent here... We've been looking at this town home in Wellington (10 miles North of us) and we really liked it. It basically fits our needs now and will be close enough while Gil is in school. So when we first started this journey we put an offer down and was accepted so we were trying to get our loan all set up and turns out the bank we were looking into wouldn't give us a loan because of a silly policy they just started in January about investors and how many properties they own in the area... So we started looking at other homes that were bigger with nice yards and would fit our needs and wants for a while, but with Gil not knowing where he will be getting a job after school we decided we don't need anything too big right now even though it would be nice... So we talked with our realtor and she said she found a way that we could get the town home if we still wanted it since it was still available.. So we decided even though it's a little further away from Gils work and closer to his school it would work out.. We put in our offer again and got accepted and got pre-approved for a USDA loan and now hoping everything goes smoothly and with the close date set at April 23rd, everything should continue to work out.. Keep us in your prayers as we make this new transition... ;-)
Gil got offered a new job position too, he will be working at a different hospital about 25 mins away, mostly highway drive from the town home we are trying to get.. He will be a supervisor for the phlebotomy department for that hospital and he starts the end of March. He's nervous about starting it but I know he will do a good job at it. He's still in school right now and he's on spring break this week so that's a nice break for him. We've just been busy with all this new stuff we are going through.. Gil says this is our year of first's that everyone goes through we just happen to be going through it in our 3rd year of marriage.. Our first birthday, our first home, Gil's first supervisor position.. He was given an Ipad along with the promotion and Elycia loves it especially the case to it, we downloaded a few things for her like sing-a-long songs like abc and 123's and she plays with it, but mostly the case she likes. silly baby...We Love her so much! ;-)
