Mia is 11 months old

My dearest Mia,
You are 11 months old today - I can hardly believe it. You are truly becoming a little girl now.
You started pulling up and now you pull up on anything and everything - even smooth walls. You can cruise along a table but you haven’t shown much interest in letting go, you will squat and get on your butt if things aren’t close enough or if you want to sit, you don’t let yourself hit the floor, you do it really slowly which is really cute. We might even see you take a few steps, but I’m not pushing you on that one - it’s hard enough to keep track of you with crawling. And I’m positive more teeth will come in since you have been sick for the last couple of days.
You point at things when you want something, you say yes with your head if you want your bottle or food when we show them to you and you say no with your head if you don’t want something anymore. You say “hi daddy” very clearly now; And you have really long conversations even though we can’t understand you.
You had you first Valentine’s day and you were really happy with the gifts that you got:
A Dora and boots balloon, two cards, a dog and a bag of heart lollipops.
I can’t believe you’ll be one in a month. And its bittersweet - I love to see you grow and learn new things, but I will miss my tiny tiny baby as well.

Love,
Mom