Tricks

A kid is 1,000,000 times more fun than having a pet monkey or parrot. I assume. Here is a little video of baby torture as I ask Liberty to do a bunch of her tricks.

From Videos 11 month old

Fun in the Kitchen

I thought I should capture this "cruising" stage where Liberty moves throughout the house via the walls/furniture and gets into the kitchen cabinets. She is particularly enamored with the egg beaters and could care less for strainers and pots. She gravitates towards all things breakable, loud and with pointy ends - and the martini shaker - gotta love a martini shaker. I'll try to find that video which I think is on my phone. I realize some of the videos are boring but as mom I cannot push delete. Liberty is also into feeding herself with a spoon, she puts a kernel of food on it and often gets it to her mouth. Oh, and THIS bib is the best $5 we ever spent.

11 months old!!

11 months old and nothing but a joyful little girl. Loves her kitty, her mommy and daddy, her baby doll and walking. Life is good. Here is my little update for our records.

Very into POINTING
Can point out any cats or dogs in a book. Or any hair or eyes or shoes.
Snorty face, indian song, clears throat, tips head back for tickles.
Says "Up"
Says "Meow" by squeaking.
Taps her head when she wants you to sing "Head, shoulders, knees and toes"
Is wearing 18 month size clothes! Tall like dad.
Has a fondness for pickles
Has broken 2 sippy cups from throwing them from the highchair
Morning 6oz bottle, milk sippy cup with lunch and dinner and bedtime 6oz bottle (20oz daily total)
2 naps both 1.5 hours long
1 more tooth, so that makes 7.

First Steps!! WALKING!!!

One night before bedtime Liberty took her first steps!! We couldn't wait to wake her the next morning and film THIS!!!!!!! 2 days before 11 months old and she's can waddle like a penguin!!

Ducky Love

Since Liberty never took to a binky, or a blanket, we were wondering if she'd ever find a "lovey" besides her thumb. Well, I think she is starting to fall in love with a certain duck stuffed animal that was a gift while I was pregnant (even before we knew we were having a girl!). Each day I catch her giving this particular duck extra love.

These video's are not the best since I took them on the camera rather than the FlipVideo, but it's too hard to get the Flip videos of her ducky love on the blog.

1:44 min video of her loving on her ducky:

From 10 months old (hair, bath, duckie)

2 min video of her wrestling around on the floor with ducky:

From Videos of Dancing and Slap Happy

HAIR!

Her first Mohawk *tear

Liberty's hair is finally long enough to hold a clip! Hip Hip HOORAY! Isn't she the cutest little red head you ever did see?

She is quite interested in hair. She can't point out any body parts yet - but she CAN show you where her hair is and she insist on brushing it herself when we take her out of the bath.

10 months old

She is such a good baby!! There is nothing else to say!! So on to our notes for the baby book:

• Her hair is growing a lot!
• Spits, clears her throat, snorts - if you do it first of course:)
• Waves hi and bye
• 6 teeth!!! 4 popped through in within 1 week!!
• Gives KISSES! (even to her baby doll!)
• Says "MMMmmmm" when eating something yummy
• Continues to signs "more" constantly
• Signs "all done"
• Only wants to eat real finger foods and not baby food.
• Get's slap happy before bedtime and rolls around and wrestles with us and stuffed animals. I have a video of this but you may think my child needs to be sent to the loony bin - she is so wild and cracking herself up.
• Walks with the help of holding our hands - no independent steps yet.
• Hates anything but water in her sippy cup (any solution ideas, leave a comment!)
• 2 naps (1.25 hours long)
• Here are pictures of her in her Wilma the Wildcat onesie! UofA!

From Wilma Wildcat

I want to ride my bicycle...

Liberty is so crazy about her Trike that Santa gave her that she even wanted to ride during the surprise cold weather we had. So we put on a hat Aunt Kelly made her and we were off!

Turn up your speakers - Liberty's first music video!

(click the YOUTUBE button to watch it bigger and in youtube)

Playing with Cheetah's Toys

If it's a cat toy - it's one of Liberty's top 5 toys of all time. The rattly ball (with feathers removed of course), the fish on a string (under supervision), the fabric mouse, the scratch post and now this. I used to feel ashamed I was letting her play with these toys, but now it's commonplace at our house. Cheetah never played with them anyway! Cheetah only plays with hair-clips - go figure. I took these pictures right after Christmas - I was unpacking and Liberty was fascinated with Cheetah's toy (a trapped moving ball in a plastic circle tube) - it kept her attention for a loooong time.

CLICK THE PICTURE TO VIEW IT BIGGER.

From Playing with Cheetah's Toy

Walking with Push Wagon + wave

I keep telling myself to make a better video of Liberty's skills with her push wagon, but we haven't gotten around to it. So here is an okay video of her when we were home sick a couple weeks ago. She does a little waving in this video too! She waves about 80% of the time you ask her to.

From January Random (baptism, desert garden, push wagon)

Superstition Farm

All week we had been practicing "What does a cow say?" "Mooo!" - to no avail. But I couldn't help it - I was so excited to take Liberty to a local dairy farm 9 minutes from our house. Superstition Farms is a family owned, hands on, fun farm. We skipped the hay ride/dairy tour and the "milk bar" samples to instead focus on the petting zoo. My girlfriend Chelsea (supermom with Ella and baby Jack) came too and we fed baby goats, a sheep, cows and a horse. There was also chickens, roosters and a donkey. Liberty and I liked the bunny and the baby cows the best. A calf was born when we were there but we didn't take the hayride out to see it (next time!). Even though hand feeding farm animals is not my cup of tea, I enjoyed having lunch there and watching Liberty squeal with delight and want to touch every animal. We'll go back.