Chloe is 11 months old

Chloe turned 11 months old on thanksgiving weekend. She was up at Nini and Poppy's house with her cousins...Grace made chloe's 11 month old sign for her and helped mommy take her pictures. Its getting really hard now cause chloe doesn't really like to sit still. Chloe has had a pretty active month. She went to london and had a lot of fun and had thanksgiving holiday. Chloe's top teeth have cut through and have been causing a little pain for her but she is as always so good about it..Chloe has been trying to walk a lot more now. She can take a few more steps but is still not that steady on her own yet. She loves to crawl around with her head down and charge like a bull. She doesn't look up and then bumps into things. She also loves to sing to her self. we will find her just humming to herself and talking all the time. She is so aware of whats going on around her and is understanding more and more. If I ask her to have some water or if she wants some she looks or grabs her water bottle. She also likes to fling her bottle in the floor if she doesn't want it. She is starting to want to feed herself and is always grabbing the spoon from us. Or she spits out the food we just fed her so she can feed it back to herself. pretty gross but at least she is trying to be independent. She is still sleeping great. Day light savings screwed us up for a little while but she got back on track pretty quickly. She is such a content and happy little baby.. she really just goes with the flow and adapts to whatever situation we are in. There are times she can get a little frustrated and we can see her little temper but overall she is the best baby in the world and mommy and daddy can't believe she is going to be 1 in a month.. 

chloe's 11 month photo shoot

chloe wants to color with her cousins

chloe and her buddy brendan

chloe and conner playing with the tunnel

chloe going through the tunnel

chloe trying to hide behind the couch

she didn't succeed

Chloe's First Thanksgiving

Chloe had a great first thanksgiving. We started the day at Papa Sal and Mimi's House. Chloe had so much fun playing with her cousins Sal and Isabella. She loved the turkey and mashed potatoes  that Mimi made and the stuffing that Judy made was amazing. Chloe isn't old enough yet for desert so she had Auntie Jen's applesauce which she loved so much.. After spending the day there we drove up to Massachusetts to spend 2 nights at Nini and Poppy's. We stopped at cousin kara's house for desert and chloe had round 2 of turkey and stuffing.. She got to see all her cousin and had so much fun. She was pretty tired from the London trip but she was such a trooper and after she had a little while to adjust to all the people she started playing and having fun with everyone. Chloe is really lucky to have so much family to love her..

chloe and izzy having a chat

chloe having fun with her cousins

chloe and daddy on thanksgiving

chloe and mommy on thanksgiving

chloe wearing isabella's hair clip

chloe posing for pictures

chloe trying to see whats above her

chloe's shocked face

look at those cheeks

chloe trying to walk

chloe and nini hanging out

Chloe Goes to London

Chloe had her first trip overseas. Mommy had a business trip in London so Daddy and Chloe came along. She did great.. It was a long plane ride but she was such a trooper and made it really easy for mommy and daddy. At the end of the flight chloe finally fell asleep and daddy joined her.. The time is 5 hours ahead in london so it made it really great for mommy and daddy. We were all able to go out to dinner and do stuff at night and chloe wasn't tired till about 10pm. Mommy and daddy even got to go out on a date one night. Mommy's co-worker Lucy stayed and watched chloe for a couple hours. We did a lot while we were there. While mommy worked daddy and chloe explored the city and did lots of walking around. Mommy had the weekend off so we got to do a lot of stuff as a family. Chloe went to her first real football match (soccer back home). She had so much fun. We got to go VIP so it made it really fun and the seats were awesome. By the end of the match chloe fell asleep while mommy held her. We did tons of walking too.  We even went to mommy's college and old pub and chloe had her first fish and chips.. We all went to lots of pubs and daddy and chloe got to spend lots of quality time wandering around london. We went on a boat ride down the thames river and got another great view of the city. It was pretty cold while we were in london but it didn't really rain till the day we left so we were pretty lucky.. It was a really great trip and we can't wait to go back when chloe is walking so we can go to all the great parks and she can run around and play...

chloe and daddy sleeping on plane. we are almost in london

On the River Thames

Big Ben With Mommy

Big Ben With Daddy

Chloe at Buckingham Palace

Near Trafalga Square

At the Queens Park Rangers Game

Daddy and Chloe at the Game

Family Shot

Chloe in her seat watching the game

Chloe finally fell asleep. It was a big day at the game

Natural History Museum

London Eye with Mommy

London Eye with Daddy

Chloe hanging in her stroller as we walked all over London

Mommy's Pub when she was in College in London

mommy's school

Kensington Gardens with Daddy

Mommy and Chloe in Hyde Park

Chloe's First Fish and Chips. She loved it...

At the pub.. A little pit stop on a long walk. Needed to warm up

Chloe all snuggly 

Mom and Chloe in Hyde Park across from Princess Diana Memorial

Reading at the pub

Outside the Pub by our hotel

Chloe is over it all and ready to go home...