Saturday, February 27, 2010

Punkie is 11 months old!

So for those of you who don't know, Madison Claire's main nickname these days is "punkie". It started with me calling her punkin, which Ryan turned into punkie brewster, which got shortened to just punkie. So cute.

Our punkie is 11 months old tomorrow - so hard to believe!! She still isn't walking yet - though she is very fast when she walks around holding things and has been standing up without assistance. She's working on some words - will finally say mamamama and has occasionally said bye-bye and "ook" which we think means "look" but nothing that is clear & really consistent.

She has been signing to communicate with us. She learned the sign for "all done" a few months ago and has been doing that one consistently for a while but she just recently started saying "more" and "milk". Next up is to teach her "eat", "please" & "thank you". We'll probably stop at those.

She's also learned to kiss and it is PRECIOUS!!! Talk about melting your heart...it is so sweet. I'm going to try to get a video of her doing it now because she is much better at it now, but here is one that Annie took a week ago. You can also see her showing off some of her signs.


I was out of town this last week for the whole week and just got back to Nashville late last night. By the time I got home it was a little after 10pm and I had missed Madison Claire so much that I went upstairs to snuggle her. When I opened the door, she had heard me coming and was on all fours peering through the crib. She was pretty much out of it but I still loved holding her and kissing her and thank goodness when I put her back down to sleep 10 minutes later she went back down. We are blessed!

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Dad & I still like Petunia!!!!!!!!!!!