Almost 1!!!

I can't believe that Alana is turning 1 on Saturday! Wow, time really does fly. Alana is walking more & more everyday. She is probably about a 70% walker, 30% crawler. She is still so proud of herself when she walks, and loves to clap when she gets to her destination. There is never a dull moment with this child! She loves to laugh and loves it even more when she makes us laugh. She plays with everything and still loves her Pooh Bears. Her new love is "Melmo" (Elmo)....I hear she might be getting her very own Melmo doll for her bday. I can only imagine the fun and excitement this year will bring!!!

Big Mouth Baby!

Alana continues to be quite the loud mouth baby girl! Here are some pics of her laughing hysterically the other night. She was jumping up and down on her knees, tackling the pillows and screaming and laughing hysterically at the top of her lungs. Erik and I were dying of laughter, which, of course, only made her even more hilarious. Quite the character she is becoming!!!

A Few Halloween Leftovers...

Here are a few pics I did not post from the pre-Halloween festivities! Here is Alana with the pumpkin that Grandma carved for her...note the mouth says "Alana"! The pic below is from a Halloween event we went to on Damen with a petting zoo....Fun times!

More Halloween fun!

After our party at Bubbles Academy, we went and visited Dad at work. It was such a beautiful night, we spent it sitting outside on the stairs waiting for trick or treaters. Alana did some trick or treating of her own up and down the block. Poor girl did not get her candy, though! Auntie Alicia then came over and we grown-ups watched Prom Night 2008 (NOT very good).

Our little chickadee

Alana seemed to LOVE halloween. She was surprisingly compliant with her chubby chicken and her costume was pretty hilarious. We went to a Halloween party at Bubbles Academy with Liz and John Stucker. The kids seemed to have a great time and particularly loved the cookie decorating. We wisely skipped the painting session and spent a chunk of the time in the music room where they played. I never thought was going to fit through this tube in her chicken outfit!

What an exhausting day!

After our photo shoot in the onesie, I finally got her dressed and she looks like she is wiped out! Her feet look so huge in this pic!!!

More 11 month faces.

Ok, face overload pics from today, but the pics in the last 3 posts were all taken in a span of about 30 minutes. She is quite the character. The last couple pics look like she is mad!!

More crazy faces...

As I mentioned, Alana is quite silly girl and makes all sorts of crazy faces, here are just a few more I caught today with the camera.

Oh, and clearly we have not yet decided what to do about the hair! I am trying to train it to part to the side, but when she really gets moving, it usually looks like this:

11 months old today!

Poor little bugaboo has had quite a cold lately and is ringing in her 11th month today a bit under the weather! She is getting better, though, so hopefully we are on upswing of her cold!

At 11 months, Alana is saying Mama and Dada (sometimes...though she loves to tease her Dad by calling him Mama). She mimics Erik and the crazy noises he makes, points, claps and has some SERIOUS conversations with her Pooh Bears. She continues to be a VERY happy gal with a slightly short fuse! She still has her big gummy smile, though we are hoping some teeth poke through soon! Alana stands like a pro, will walk a few steps on her own, though she is still primarily a crawler when she is busy...which is often! She is a real comedian and makes all sorts of crazy faces. Here are just a few she made today....

Hard to believe our little baby will be a 1 year old in a short month!!!

Alana Hearts Pooh, cont.

Alana continues to LOVE her Pooh Bears. She loves to roll around on the floor with them and uses them as pillows, too. It is way too cute the way she will fly across the room to snuggle with them. We are trying to find her a large stuffed Pooh chair for her birthday, but so far, we are striking out! Oh well, maybe another Pooh doll so she can snuggle up to the Three Poohs.