One of the biggest changes is in the eating department, where Madeleine's diet has diversified a great deal. In addition to the organic veggies that Mommy has been preparing for a few months now, Madeleine is also eating string cheese, Cheerios and MEAT (mostly ground chicken and ground turkey mixed with applesauce or other sweet things to make them tastier). Her appetite has definitely grown more and more now that she's a full blown carnivore. She's also beginning to use a sippy cup.
Madeleine continues to be a very active little girl -- doing activities ranging from swim classes to music class to yoga. Here she is in another pair of her kung fu PJs.
Madeleine has also kept up a very busy social calendar. She loves being around other babies. Here, she's attending her first birthday party for her new friend Tess.
Madeleine loves spending time in her exersaucer. It was a little freaky to see her standing upright in it for the first time, but she loves playing with the different toys and turning herself a complete 360 degrees around.
Of course, at this age, just about anything can become a fun toy.
This weekend, Madeleine began to celebrate her first fall by accompanying her friend Isabel (and her parents) to a pumpkin patch on a local farm. Madeleine thought the pumpkins were OK but she mostly wanted to eat the straw. She loved her first hayride and her first trip to Goat Village.
She is making more and more noises that are getting closer and closer to being intelligible. We both heard her utter something that sounded a lot like "Dada" three times this weekend, including twice while looking right at her Daddy. Not sure if it would stand up in a court of law, but it was pretty exciting to hear!
She's not crawling yet but she does a movement that is very similar to the old 1980s dance called the Worm. When she gets tired of trying to figure out crawling, she likes to roll over to where she's trying to go - like a beer barrel.
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