elevenses

Isn't it crazy that she'll be ONE in a month?

Some of her new tricks:

Scrunching up her face/wrinkling her nose and grinning big while she inhales/exhales really fast through her nose. The college kids at my work call it her "calia face". I must wrinkle my nose a lot!

She is lightning on all fours. Kinda lost interest in walking since she doesn't like to hold our hands and go where we want her to go when she can go somewhere else entirely, and much quicker when she's on her own. She seems to have forgotten how to crawl down the step in our house (she used to do it a lot--maybe she tumbled one too many times?), but today she climbed up onto our bed all by herself!

She has her first word: Gracias. She says it mostly with Ricardo, but also with me. It's usually when food is involved, but sometimes with other things--when we hand her something, or when she hands us something she'll repeat "graga" after we say gracias. She also says mamamamama or sometimes even mama and dadadadada or duh duh.

She eats pretty much everything still, except these weird yogurt melts that gerber makes. She'll put it in her mouth and then stick out her tongue when she realizes what it is, but they stick to her tongue! I think they taste kind of like space ice cream--that freeze dried stuff.

X has some favorites: cream cheese, (and regular cheese, and cheese flavored puffs, and quesadillas, and grilled cheese...) avocado, crackers, and anything that I happen to be eating that she thinks she wants. She's tried her first popsicle (lime juice bar), chicken, egg (scrambled yolk), and we've gone to tropical fruits--kiwi, mango, and coconut. Despite the fact that she's such a great eater, she still weighs in around 16-17 pounds.

She waves, claps, will give high fives and fist bumps, and we're working on blowing kisses. She smiles at nearly everyone and has yet to show any stranger anxiety. She had her first swim lesson last week, and her teacher commented on how NOT SHY she was about trying new things and leaving me to swim with him. I'll have to get a picture of her in her swimsuit up--too cute.

That's it for now, tomorrow is Easter, and I have to wake up at 4:30 to get to church to set up for the sunrise service. We wanted to make sure to celebrate and post the eleven months pictures though!