-- On July 25th she sprouted her first tooth! A few days later, tooth #2 broke through!

-- She is cruising on furniture, walls, people-- you name it.

-- Stood by herself yesterday without holding on to anything for support.

-- loves to clap her hands and mimic things that we do. Her current favorite thing to mimic is the Indian Call where she says "ahhhhhhh" and pats her mouth with her hand at the same time.

-- she finally ditched dragging herself everywhere for the full-blown coordinated crawl. I honestly didn't think she would abandon her signature one-legged drag, but she did.

-- walks steadily while we hold her hands

-- realized shortly after my 9 month post that she can indeed pull up on her crib rails, so we've lowered the crib for a 2nd time.

-- Not only changes the channel with the remote, but magically found us some new channels on our TV.

-- Gives "hugs" and waves "hi" and "bye"

-- Tries to steal whatever snack mommy and daddy might be munching on

-- Started whole milk this month. She randomly stopped liking her formula so I just gave up trying to force her to drink it and started with whole milk. She isn't crazy about it but she drinks it. It's funny because she likes water more than anything else. She'll drink an entire sippy cup of water with no problem!

-- We are down to 2 or 3 bottles a day now, which is fabulous for mommy and daddy. She prefers to drink from her sippy cup but she won't drink as much as she needs if we go that route so we're sticking to bottles for the next 2 months.

-- Added to her vocabulary with "Ba Ba." I've also heard her make the "mmmhh" and "geee" sound but she doesn't do it on a consistent basis.

-- Signs "all done"

-- 2 naps a day: 11-12:30, and 3:30 to 5:30. Bedtime is 8:30-9. Waketime is 8:30am.

-- Favorite foods: baby goldfish, cheerios, yogurt, and graham crackers

-- Weighs 22 lbs, 30+ inches tall, 12 months clothes, size 3 diapers, size 4 shoe.

Such a big girl standing up next to her toy basket!

She has an obsession with paper...

She also loves to play in the kitchen-- she likes looking at her reflection in the appliances...haha

taking a bath in the sink at a friend's house

testing out the new carrier i bought-- it's an Ergo and we love it!

Greenlee and Daddy at Chick-Fil-A

Happy 4th of July!

Greenlee and Lilly

Greenlee with her cousin Lilly Claire, who is 2 years old

-- pulling up on things (but she still has no idea she can pull up on her crib rails-- thank you Lord!)

-- taking steps when we hold her hands.

-- still doing the half crawl/drag thing after a whole month of being on the move. Since she gets around anywhere she wants to go with her drag/crawl we don't think she'll ever do the normal coordinated crawl. I think she will go straight to walking.

-- She loves to do planks and headstands all day long

-- Today she drank out of a straw for the first time.

-- signs "more" and "water"...we are working on "all done", "mama", and "dada"

-- eating finger foods...she is getting really good at feeding herself puffs, cheerios, etc.

-- after a week of vacation she reverted back to 3 naps per day...so we are still working on getting her back to her old nap routine

-- getting better at not waking up at night (we started letting her cry herself back to sleep when she wakes up at night and it has helped tremendously)

-- she can put her paci back in her mouth...YAY! this was huge for us. now we know we don't need to run upstairs in the middle of the night or during a nap to put her paci back in when she loses it. as long as she can find it she can get it in. i've waited for this day for a VERY long time!

-- talking up a storm and socializing. she babbles constantly and makes verbal expressions with just about everything she does throughout the day. she also LOVES other kids. she is so aware of other babies and children and wants to be right up in their space touching them and talking to them.

-- size 3 diapers, size 12-18 month clothes, size 3-4 shoe

Trying to pull up on things

hanging out with Daddy :)

this was a few weeks ago at the beginning stages of learning to crawl

Currently she takes 3 naps per day. They range anywhere from 20min to 1.5hr in length. She recently started staying awake 2.5-3hrs at a time. Literally it happened in a week's time. One week she could only stay awake 2 hrs at a time, then the next week she was all the sudden staying awake 3 hours! We have tried for 7 months to "make" her into a good sleeper, but we have found that it is pointless-- she just doesn't require a lot of sleep. I have tried every Babywise trick in the book but it doesn't work for Greenlee. She will wake up after 20min of sleep and be as happy as a lark. I can leave her in her crib for 2 hours and she won't go back to sleep. So, I've pretty much stopped trying to force something that isn't going to happen. We figure her thyroid condition has a lot to do with it. The medication affects eating and sleeping patterns. Honestly, as long as she is happy when she wakes up it isn't a big deal. She is one of those babies that rarely ever cries. Some days she will only nap an hour total and she is still SO happy. It's crazy! At night she sleeps pretty well but I'd say she still only gets about 10 or 11 hours total. Many times we will hear her in the monitor at 3 or 4am talking to herself for up to an hour. Sometimes if we put her to bed earlier, she will sleep longer/later. If we put her to bed later, she wakes up earlier. It's very strange!