11 Months

11 months old!   This baby is growing like a weed but she is becoming a beautiful flower.  We love Charlotte so much.  She is so fun but also so ornery!  She definitely has an attitude that girl. But we'll keep her anyway.  Just look at that cutie:

Isn't she the funniest little baby making all those faces?  I was kind of being a slacker mom on her 11 month photos because I couldn't decide on an outfit but then I thought, "Why have an outfit? Why not capture all this chunky goodness in naked baby photos!"  Anyway she loves baths so it was really easy to get her to smile and have fun.  She is definitely a chunky baby.  She is already wearing Emily's old 18 month clothes and some of the clothes Emily wore when she was 2!   

Look at that face!  One minute she is a sweet little innocent baby giving hugs and blowing kisses, and the next minute she is making huge messes.  Oh well we love her anyway.  Charlotte loves to eat and will eat anything we give her.  She especially loves chocolate as you can tell.

Though she is not walking yet, that does not stop her from getting around.  She crawls all over the place and she is super fast at crawling too.  Recently she has started pulling herself up to a standing position and will cruise around the furniture:

Just because she can't walk does not mean she can't get into everything.  Here she is "helping" with the dishes.  For some reason she loves to play in the dishwasher.  Anytime I am loading or unloading the dishes, Charlotte is right there ready to "help" (aka make a mess).  She even thinks sitting in the dishwasher is pretty fun.  Charlotte has also discovered the Tupperware drawer and thinks it is so much fun to take everything out of that drawer and throw it on the ground....

Charlotte is discovering that one great thing about being the youngest is that your older siblings will do all sorts of crazy things to you.  For example, put funny things on your head:

Even though the other kids give her a hard time, she can hold her own.  Charlotte sure loves her older brothers and sister though and she misses them when they are gone to school.  They make her laugh and mad all at the same time.  We love you Charlotte!