Beatrice Babies: 11 Months Old

On Oct. 22, Eileen turned 11 months old! We are now counting down the days until her first birthday. Time has flown!

Aunt Patti & Mamaw trying to get Eileen to walk

Eileen rang in 11 months with a cold and an ear infection. Poor baby! She was 22 lb., 2 oz. when we took her to the doctor. Eileen is still a very tall girl. She is wearing size 18-24 month clothes (size 18 month clothes are too short; size 24 month clothes are way too big) and size 3 diapers (though we will be moving up to size 4 any day now). She is very, very tall. We can't wait to get an official height at her 12 month appointment on Dec. 8.

Eileen is a chatty cathy! I'm not quite sure what she's saying, but the girl LOVES to talk.

Four Generations: My mom, me, Eileen, and Sittie (my mom's mom)

Aunt Patti and Eileen, the world's longest baby

She is eating anything and everything. She loves to pick food up and feed herself.

My mom bought Eileen several cute outfits. Eileen was much more interested in the tissue paper in which it was wrapped.

Eileen has been pulling things (toys, diapers, magazines) out of containers for a while now. She's finally learned to put things back into containers. It's become a bit of an obsession.

Eileen loved Aunt Teri's hair.

Eileen can walk. She takes a few steps at a time. And then she decides that it's faster to do her signature scoot. While in Tennessee, we took Eileen to the Stride Rite store to get her fitted for some adorable white leather high top shoes.

Eileen had a special celebration for her 11 month birthday- she got to spend it with lots of family in Tennessee! We were at my parents' house and Mamaw, Aunt Patti, Aunt Amy, Sittie, and Aunt Teri all came to visit. Eileen LOVED the attention and she loved on everyone (even though we later found out that she likely had an ear infection all weekend).

We tried several times to take a four generation picture of my mom, me, Eileen, and my mom's mom (Sittie):