11 Months

It's amazing how many pictures you can take of two small children and not get a single good one.  (More from the 'photo shoot' here.)  Adara at 11 months is increasingly mobile; crawls like a champ and loves to walk around holding onto our fingers.  Still shows those two bottom teeth when she smiles, but hiding 4 more up top.  She's a pretty good eater, but seems to be getting a little more picky, and is frustratingly determined to feed herself (or us) everything but still terrible at getting a spoon to her mouth.  Points to things she's interested in.  Anything she's been told not to touch, or isn't sure about, or she doesn't like, she points to and says "no" sharply and shakes her head.   She's also increasingly interactive.  First thing in the morning she can be found standing in her crib 'talking'to Emily.  She's become interested in books, and still loves to play peekaboo.  She puts her hands on her face and says something like "yaya dada" (where's adara) until we respond.  She also has a new favorite game... when I nurse her before bed I sit on Emily's bed, and she will stop eating and crawl as fast as she can, giggling, to the far side of the bed.  When I hold out my hands for her to come back, she laughs and crawls away again.