Juliana – 11 Months

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We have less than a month to go until my littlest babe’s first birthday! Ah! Where did the time go?! There haven’t been too many huge changes since last month, but my little girl is definitely growing!

Juliana has started to pull up on just about everything. I can find her standing in her crib at the end of nap time everyday. She’s also a huge fan of pulling up on the window sill to watch her sisters playing outside. Her favorite thing to do, however, is to grab onto my legs when I’m busy working in the kitchen.

She’s been crawling like a pro for a while, but she’s finally using her knees now instead of her little army crawl. She’s actually pretty quick. Ju isn’t allowed to be in the bathroom or laundry room, and she knows it, so if we happen to leave either of those doors open, you can expect her to make a break for it! All with a devilish little grin on her face.

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At this point, we’re up to three teeth! The fourth is just shy of breaking through the skin. I expect it to make it’s debut in the next day or two. Even with the teeth, nursing is going exceptionally well. Except for when I see that sly little grin and I know a bite is coming. After we came back from our cruise, I was formula feeding her more often, but we’re back to mostly breastfed along with Baby Led Weaning.

I had hoped that a bottle of formula at bed time would get Ju to sleep through the night, but it didn’t. Regardless of breast milk or formula, I can pretty much guarantee that she’ll wake up at approximately 12:15am. At this point I bring her back to bed with me and she stays with us until morning.

Naps have decreased to pretty much just once a day, depending on the day. More often than not she’ll sleep for just a few hours around lunch time. Since we’ve had friends around, the schedule has been a bit disturbed. Today she napped for about half an hour as we drove. This led to her falling asleep mid-meal at dinner. Poor babe.

Party planning has been going well. We decided to try to move the party out of our house and are looking at a rental. Originally I had planned on going nuts with decor and food and all that, but I really don’t have the time to plan a Pinterest party. We’ll see how that all turns out.