Months 10 and 11

Now that Sailor is a whooping 5 days away from her 1ST Birthday, and I am in full-blown party mode, I realized I'm like 2 months behind on my monthly updates!

I think after her 12 Month post, I'll transition to maybe only posting updates every 3 months or so, but in the meanwhile, I'd like to carve out some time to talk about topics like: Losing the baby weight, Exclusively Pumping, Postpartum-Anxiety, as well as fun things like: fashion for mommy and baby, and some of my favorite baby essentials! So, we'll see how that goes over the next few months. (Don't hold your breath.)

Anyway! Here are the last 2 months in pictures!

10 months!

 As you can see, monthly photo shoots no longer go as planned. We are VERY lucky to get just a couple "good" pictures. But she sure is funny!

Here is she eating her absolute favorite food, avocado. She will eat an entire one for dinner!

Just like her Momma during the height of Myspace a few years ago, Sailor loves a good "selfie."

 Constantly trying to break out of baby jail...by any means necessary!

 A montage dedicated to her first cheese puff!

Other notables about this month:

Baby LOVES her some Family Feud! (And yes, thanks to spell check JUST NOW, I realized I misspelled it on the chalkboard...oops!) We watch it every afternoon, and I can't quite figure out if it's Steve Harvey's voice, or the sound the game board makes, but either way, she is GLUED to the screen! We even have to turn it off if she needs to eat or take a bottle!

She loves most table foods, and hasn't been allergic to anything yet...knock on wood!

She's a true NOLA girl who loves to bust a move when music comes on. (Her signature move is a little bounce with one hand stretched out, and the other holding onto something for dear life....as seen in Instagram videos.)

And sleep truly went to the shitter this month...I don't know if it was more teeth cutting....or the fact that we finally threw out her beloved swing...(never again!) but it has been quite the ordeal. But we're working on it...her crib can currently be found in our room....(WOMP WOMP!)

Maybe I'll write an entire blog about what NOT to do if you're trying to get your baby to sleep through the night/in their own crib...because I feel like I did everything wrong! But it is slowly but surely getting better...more on that next time!

 11 Months!

I'll call this, "The Progression of an Unsuccessful Photo Shit...I mean SHOOT"...(Yes, that was a real typo I decided to keep...I swear!)

 Here is where we had the BRILLIANT idea that we would just capture the moment that she crawls past the chalkboard...that went well....

 Words can't express how glad I am that I wrote "climb" for this month! Perfection.

 Over it...

 Trouble...

 I have NO IDEA why, but for some reason, she kept making this open-mouthed face over and over and over again! She's a nut!

 So excited for her FIRST MARDI GRAS parade ever!

 The stuffed "Jester Bear" she got from said parade, and fell in love with! Don't worry, it was bathed in healthy dose of Lysol.

Other mentionables about my nearly 1 year old girl...

If you ever wonder what she may be doing at 3 am on any given night, rest assured it's NOT sleeping, more often than not, she literally trying to climb UP THE WALL from her crib! Let's all take a moment and pray that the novelty of this wears off soon!

Also, it should be noted that Sailor wants to do everything on her own time...not yours.

If you would like her to:Wave, hug, kiss, say Mama, Dada, Bye Bye, sign "More" or "Milk," or show you that she's one year old with her pointer finger, don't waste your time getting out the camera, Miss Independent does what she wants, which means she'll do it all, precisely, 3 hours later....when you've put up the camera, and the video camera, and hung up the phone, and ended the SKYPE sesh, and left the party.

 So theres that.

But  other than that, she's pretty much the best thing that ever happened to us, and I CAN'T BELIEVE she's nearly a year old!

Here's to hoping I'm not the blubbering idiot "ugly crying" in the corner of the party! Although,  I feel like it only gets worse if I hold it in...so maybe I'll just LET IT FLY!

Until next time my friends!