Hadley updates

My Hadleybear is 11 months old! Actually, she's 11-1/2 months old...I'm just a bit late with the photos. Apparently, I was wrong in my earlier post about her nap schedule. She wasn't really ready to move to only having 1 nap a day - she still needs 2. I guess she had just been having a rough few days and I thought her difficulty napping meant that she was ready for only 1. I must admit that I'm pretty happy about that! She's been so cranky the last couple weeks so it's really wonderful to have my sweet girl back.

She hasn't started walking on her own yet, but she's very fast when she walks holding onto the coffee table or the couches, etc. She's also getting much better at walking when we hold onto her hands and lead her around the room. When we first tried that with her, she didn't realize that she needed to take steps forward, but she definitely gets that now!

So far, Hadley is a bit on the short side...she still wears 9 months sized clothes (particularly onesies and dresses - anything that depends on the length of her torso for fit) and even those still have more room for her to grow. She can wear t-shirts and shorts in the 12 month size, though. She talks quite a lot but I still can't make out any words except for 'mama' and 'dada' and she uses those words indiscriminantly. I'm really looking forward to when she knows that I am "Mama" and Rey is "Dada".

We are working on her ability to feed herself but there's still quite a way to go. She's great with feeding herself small, dry things (cherrios, gerber puffs cereal, animal crackers, etc.) but she still has some trouble with slippery foods - at least half of it ends up on the floor. She's still only got two teeth so maybe it will help when she grows a few more. She also has a long way to go with the sippy cup. She hasn't figured out yet that you have to suck on it to get the water out...she puts the cup to her mouth and when nothing comes out, she gives up. We'll try a few different kinds with her and see if she does any better with those.