{"id":1762,"date":"2009-06-12T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T01:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2009-07-08T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T02:18:08","slug":"eleven-months-old-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2009\/06\/eleven-months-old-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven Months Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Anna,<\/p>\n

One more month until the big first birthday!\u00a0 Time flies when you’re having fun!<\/p>\n

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\nYou haven’t tried too many new foods this month, let’s see…tuna fish, raspberries, yellow beans and sunbutter (like peanut butter, only made with sunflower seeds).\u00a0 But you’ve tried many new table food versions of things you’ve had before.\u00a0 You adore Grandma’s mini-meatball soup (aka Italian Wedding Soup).\u00a0 Actually, you adore anything I let you have in a suction-bottomed bowl with a spoon – you just think that’s the coolest thing.\u00a0 Especially when you eventually pry the bowl off of your tray!<\/p>\n

I think<\/em> your first official word is “book”.\u00a0 You say “boo-uh” and lunge towards the pile of books on the shelf next to the chair when we sit down to nurse in the morning and at bedtime.\u00a0 And you say it consistently enough that I think I’m going to declare it your first word.\u00a0 You also say “dis!” and “dat!” when it seems like “this” or “that” would be appropriate, so I’m wondering if you actually are saying those words too…?<\/p>\n

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\nYou’re not walking yet, but you are climbing – stairs, that is.\u00a0 And you know you’re not supposed to, because you look back at me with your stinker-pants face like “See, Mom?\u00a0 See what I’m doing?!?”\u00a0 You do that a lot, really, and one of your favorite games is to crawl away from me into a room you’re not really supposed to be in, look back to make sure I’m following, and then crawl as fast as your little hands and knees will go until I pick you up from behind and you squeal with glee.<\/p>\n

Speaking of squealing.\u00a0 Baby!\u00a0 You and your sister need to tone down the high-pitched shrieking!\u00a0 You would make most opera singers weep with jealousy – I’m shocked we haven’t actually had any broken glass yet.\u00a0 You know, everyone always waxes poetic about the pitter-patter of little feet, but nobody warns you about the high-pitched shrieking and squealing of little girls…<\/p>\n

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\nIn a few short weeks we’ll be celebrating the fact that we all made it to your first birthday – and I have to be honest, I think we kind of got off easy.\u00a0 You’ve been, so far, an extremely easy baby.\u00a0 You slipped into our lives and it wasn’t so long before it felt like you’d been here all along anyway.\u00a0 I’m sure we’ll have challenges and changes ahead, there always are, but this part where I’m your mama?\u00a0 That’s the easy bit.\u00a0 Thanks for choosing me to be your mama, thanks for choosing us to be your family.<\/p>\n

Love, Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Anna, One more month until the big first birthday!\u00a0 Time flies when you’re having fun! You haven’t tried too many new foods this month, let’s see…tuna fish, raspberries, yellow beans and sunbutter (like peanut butter, only made with sunflower<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anna-monthly-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}