Maddox Gets ' Cheesy'

Hi all. Sorry so long since I updated. Time just gets away from me. Maddox turned 11 months old a week ago. Can't believe she will be a year old in just a few short weeks. Looking forward to seeing everyone at her party. She has been REALLY super good these last couple of weeks. So happy and giggly. She has started makin' what I call this 'cheesy' grin. She scrunches up her eyes and wrinkles her nose and definitely makes Eric and I laugh, which I'm sure makes her do it even more. I got a pretty good picture of it sitting in her high chair above. She has been a furniture explorin' fool. She loves to crawl in, under, and around the dining room table and in and over the end tables. She still loves to wrestle with us on the ground...crawlin' over and then back over us again gigglin' the whole time. She is really starting to learn words. She doesn't say them yet, but she definitely knows them....ball, sit up, stand up, sit down, NO, book, banana. She LOVES to stand up in the bathtub, so she quickly learned the phrase 'sit down' which she normally will follow after the first command but then how quickly she forgets and then wants to stand up about 30 seconds later. She is eatin' really well. You can see from the pictures I took yesterday her little cheeks are filling out....and we can tell. She is definitely getting heavier. I am no longer pumping any breast milk....so she is actually getting a combo of formula and a little whole milk here and there. No issues with the whole milk but we thought we'd wait till closer to 12 months before we go 100 percent to whole milk. She is eating a lot of regular food....green beans, peaches, bananas ( her favorite), gold fish crackers, acorn squash, hmmmm what else...pretty much anything that is soft I try to give her. As you can see from the pictures she definitely is primarily using her right hand to eat. Most of the time she keeps the left one CLEAN under the tray. She has really figured out the sippy cup. She knows how to get it to her mouth and even now she can tip it up on her own without us helping her. She has started taking her bottles by herself. I just prop her up on one of the pink pillows and hand her the bottle and she does well. Only a little messier without my attention. But, no big deal. She has become really inquisitive.....getting into anything that Eric and I leave laying around. I always have a stack of paper/magazines laying on the end of the bench behind our love seat and I don't know how many times I have picked it all up in the last 72 hours...hmmmm maybe I should put it all away! She loves to tear it down and especially look at the babies in the magazines that I have. She really almost talks to them, like they are talkin' to her. She is getting faster and faster with crawling and is a champ now at pulling herself up on furniture. Still not cruising a lot along the furniture but last night she let go of my hands and stood by herself for a split second. She totally initiated it herself....trying it out! Won't be long. NO more teeth yet, still just have the 2 bottom ones. And as happy as she has been lately, don't look for anymore to come in anytime soon. She is so fun!! Nothing much gets done around here ( laundry, cleaning etc...). But,hey we sure are having a good time being a family...!