11 months

Wow, only one more month until Diem is a big one year old. We won't be able to call her baby Diem much longer... 1) because she is growing up. I swear every morning when I get her from her crib she has gotten bigger and just looks a older. and 2) she will have a new baby cousin on both sides of the family in the fall. Congrats Emily and Jessica we are super excited.

We went to Las Vegas and St. George during Bret's spring break. We stayed with Colin, Nancy, and Elliott. We had a great time, it was so nice of them to let us crash at their place and show us around town. Diem loved playing with Elliott, she followed her around everywhere. And Elliott entertained as usual. that girl is so dang funny. We glad she is coming for a visit soon.

St. George was a blast. Not quite as relaxing as we are used to, but still tons of fun and just the break we needed. Diem loved the pool and playing outside in the perfect weather.

Let's see new things Diem has done this month...

~She knows what a bear and a monkey say, and is working on her pig and elephant noises. She will sign "cookie" and "cheese".

~She loves cruising along furniture and just recently started scaling walls and standing up in her crib. She loves, loves, loves to crawl up stairs and loves trying to go head first back down them even more. She still doesn't crawl traditionally, I lovingly refer to her mode of transportation as dragging herself around like a cripple. It works for her, she gets where she needs to go..

~Climbing into cupboards and emptying the contents one by one. She also likes emptying things from baskets and purses.

~She loves to sleep and eat. Except when she has hand, foot, and mouth- thank goodness she got over that quickly. She is back to her old self, at Sunday dinner she was going around begging for people's dessert.

~She is not a fan of kisses, she is sometimes good for a hug, but she is always down for a good old head butt.

Diem is happy, independent, curious, calm/content, and shy. She is our little star.