I know that bragging about yourself is frowned upon, but bragging about your kids is okay, right?  Because Addelyn is sooo smart and beautiful and talented and strong, she just amazes me every day...

Between walking so well and signing (and speaking) a LOT, Addelyn seems like she's grown up so quickly!  Every day she seems more like a little kid and less like a baby.  Here's a list of all of the things that Addelyn can sign (The ones with the stars by them are ones she's not very consistent with yet):

Animals:
Puppy, Owl, Bunny, Monkey, Bear, Elephant*, Kitty
Food:
Banana, Cheese, Milk, Eat, Apple*
Other:
Aunt Becki, Flower*, Bye-bye/Hi, Fan, Light, Ball, Yay, Up, Car*, Bath, All Done, Night-Night*, Baby, Binkie, Airplane (sort-of...):

She can also find her toes, fingers, eyes*, ears, mouth, nose*, head, belly*, and hair (as well as all of those things on me); and she can point to a picture of a kitty, puppy, lion, tiger, bear, girraffe, zebra, rabbit, owl, and pig if asked, as well as all of the things that she can sign and more!

Addelyn understands so much of what I say...I try to challenge her with new commands every day (like telling her to put a ball on her head or to wash her belly during bath time...or even incorporating new words and concepts into known commands or vice versa like "show baby the shoe" (where show is a new verb for her))  and, to my astonishment, Addelyn almost always succeeds in doing the right thing!

Addelyn has started to do a few new cute things this month - She gives me a big cheesy grin if I ask her to, blows bubbles with her mouth, and she loves to hide behind the door frame just outside of a room and then jump out and scare me :-)

Ok...that's probably enough of me going on about how smart she is...now you can see for yourself how cute she is :-)

I loved this outfit so much we just had to do a photo shoot with it...and she did so well!  she just sat there and smiled :-)

just sitting and reading a book - she is her father's daughter!

Addelyn loves to flip the pages of chapter books.

To be honest, I totally just sat there and let her do that...she was having so much fun!

My big helper!

Beautiful girl!

Action shot!  Running across the room...

Addelyn loves to play the piano

Big Smiles!

Too cool in her new shades

She's such a rockstar!

Another big cheesy smile!  That's her new thing...

mmm...ice cream!

Another recent development - Addelyn realized that she can blow bubbles with her mouth!

It's finally getting warm enough out to swing!

way up high!

Kicking mommy is her favorite thing to do in the swing...

Stats:

Age: 10.5 months

Weight: 22 lbs

Length:  29ish inches

Drinks:  about 3-4 8oz bottles of milk per day (all of which is formula) one before each of 2 naps, and one before she goes to bed.

Eats: yogurt, and a fruit for breakfast; puffs, a veggie, and a cheese stick for lunch; and a fruit, and either a meat or noodles or something for dinner.  We just discovered that she likes peas!

Sleeps: 11-12 hours/night - 9pm-9am (most nights...sometimes she still wakes up in the middle)

Naps: 2-3 hours per day - one nap is 3 hours after she wakes up for the day and one is usually somewhere between 4 and 7:00 - but we're trying to phase that second one out.

Awake for: 2.5-5 hours at a time during the day.

Clothes size:  mostly 18 month, some 12 month

Motor skills: WALKING, dancing (in time no less), crawling well on hands and knees, standing standing alone well, pulling herself up to standing without any support, self feeding several things (as long as it's not too slippery)

other skills: putting balls into her toy (then the balls fall out and roll away and you do it all over again), clapping, waving, playing peekaboo (very well with a blanket, and she just started with her hands on February 4), Does hand actions to songs like itsy bitsy spider and little bunny foo foo.
words:  mama, up, dada, nana (banana), "Aye" (light), "Bah" (ball), and "Ba (bath)" "ah duh" (all done), "buh buh" (puppy), I've also heard hi a time or two, and I'm not even going to try to list all of the words that she tries to say, but doesn't say regularly.

signs: see above