Our sweet baby turned 13 months old on July 20 (I know, almost a month ago already…I am behind in the posting!) Here was the picture I took of her on that day. What a sweetie pie. She is wearing one of my shirts from when I was her age…I snagged it from my Mom’s stash of my clothes while we were visiting Kansas for 4th of July (another back-post to come!)

In month 13 Linden has really solidified her running skills and her verbal skills are taking off! some of her new/favorite words include: bye-bye, kitty cat, go, and shoes. Speaking of shoes. Linden is a girl after my own heart and loves shoes! She likes to put hers on and look at them, take people their shoes, show me which shoes I should wear (she always brings me a beaded pair of heels that I wore in a wedding once) and take Daddy his shoes after he changes his clothes after work so that they can go get the mail together.

She is eating all table foods with us and we are slowly but surely becoming done with bottles and only drinking whole milk, eventually only from her cup.

She has gotten very good at sharing toys with her friends when they play together and she loves to be taken swimming! I think she has 4 bathing suites right now and she gets very excited and starts clapping when we ask her if she wants to go swimming.

Her other favorite thing this month has been books. She will bring Ryan and I books constantly when we are at home and just wants to sit next to us on the couch, or on our laps on the floor, while we read books to her. It is very sweet and I know Ryan has especially enjoyed their special reading time together.

Here are some special pictures I took of Linden this month. They are special because….at one of my baby showers I recieved a particular onesie in 2 different sizes – newborn and 12-18 months, from 2 different ladies, that also had a matching headband. I had taken pictures of Linden in this onsie and headband when she was 1 month old and then I did the same this month. Here is the difference a year makes!

Oh, but the sitting still did not last long at 13 months…

I’ve got places to go Mom…

Ok, I’ll sit for you one more time. This is my model pose where I am showing off the wonderfully long legs that I did NOT get from my Mommy.