11 Months Old

Claire is 11 months old today.  Time has been just flying by!  She is such a fun little baby.  Claire likes to talk.  She can say Uh-oh, Abby (but it sounds like Avvy), Daddy, and a lot of other loud words that get interpreted differently each time.    I love that Claire has 7 teeth.  She cut her first 3 bottom teeth together, then her poor gums suffered while her 4 top teeth came in.  And she's been standing pat there for a while. That 4th bottom tooth has no desire to join her others (I only had 3 bottom teeth too for a while).
Just last night she started to stand by herself.  She pulls up on something, then gets busy doing other things and doesn't realize she's not holding on anymore.  She figures it out when she gets all wobbly.  Its pretty cute to see such a little peanut be such a big girl.
Claire is still the joy of the whole family and even our ward. The kids fight over who gets to hold her at church and the YW fight over who gets to try to steal her and take her to class.  We have to veto it, cause she's kinda a distraction.
 I also love that she likes to share. Just say Aaahh, and she'll give you her pacifier, bottle, cheerios, spoon, anything, and it cracks her up.
Also, I learned last night that she doesn't like olives.  How do I know?  Well, I found every single olive slice under her high chair after dinner.  Then today when I tried again, she just smiled, flashed her dimples, but kept her lips tightly closed.
But my very very favorite thing about my little ClayBay is that no matter what she's doing, if I come lay on the floor anywhere in the same room, she'll light up and do a crawling sprint for me.  Then she climbs all over me and is about as content as can be.  I love you little Claire!