Twelve months;

So I decided that Lilia is long overdue a development update. I pulled my camera out to take a photo to go with the update, but Lilia wouldn't put her quavers down. She did do her cheesy smile for the camera, but you can see the crisps in her mouth and on her face, ha ha. She's so cute!

Anyways, Lilia pretty much eats anything and everything. She is learning to feed herself, she can put the spoon to her mouth but she hasn't really grasped the 'neat' concept yet, ha ha. She can stand up and walk whilst holding onto either furniture or hands, she tried to stand by herself on occasion but hasn't quite got the balance yet. I love that she is trying though, she'll definitely get it soon. She can shake her head 'no' and nod her head 'yes', and she also raises both hands and drops them when we tell her "all gone!" She also says "gone", "iya", "mum", "dad", "ta", "ta-ta", and she babbles to herself an awful lot. She has also got a VERY healthy set of lungs on her! She loves to scream, ha ha. She also waves hello and goodbye.

She loves her books, especially her lift the flap ones. She loves to open the flaps and babble to herself, pretending to read. She loves her cuddly little monkey called Coconut, and she loves playing with balls too. She is so independent and will sit there and play quietly on her own. She is crawling, and if I leave the room she usually crawls behind me and follows me into whatever room I go into and then plays in there. We have a TV cabinet, and she loves opening the doors and hiding everything in there ha ha.

She is definitely a Daddy's Girl, and it upsets me in a way but it makes me smile so much to see how much she adores James. She can give lovely open mouthed kisses, sometimes she even generously sticks her tongue in, and afterwards she says "aaah". She also rests her head on us, or cuddles us with her arms, and says "aah". She's such a cutie.

You know when Lilia is naughty because she is quiet. If we look at her she will stick her tongue out and smile angelically. She also sticks her tongue out when she's planning her mischief. She hardly ever listens to me when I tell her no, but whenever James tells her off she will pull the biggest puppy dog face ever with her bottom lip like 5cms in front and then cry. She also has a TERRIBLE temper, and will have a hissy fit over almost anything when she doesn't get her own way.

She isn't in her own room yet because we haven't painted it, I know - shame on us! But she sleeps in her own cot and is really good at it considering we never used any method at all to enforce this rule on her. When she is awake in her cot, she will lie there until she goes to sleep (usually). Sometimes, she will peep above the cot bumper and spy on James and I, then look away when she realises we're looking. It's the sweetest thing ever, but it is hard not to play with her back.

She usually has one nap a day and that's around 11:30am, but she gets tired in the afternoons too. It's just she refuses to sleep and I won't let her after 4pm. She usually goes to bed around 7ish, though sometimes she will be naughty and stay downstairs a bit longer (it's not really her being naughty, it's us, but still, haha).

She loves looking at herself, she shouts "iya!" at her reflection in the mirror, in glass, on the laptop, and she loves it when I put my webcam on and she can see herself on the screen.

She has eight teeth. Four top, four bottom. Well, four top and three and a half bottom, the fourth is just cutting through the gum.

She is on cows milk and has two bottles a day, sometimes three depending on how tired she is or how much she has eaten.

She is such a polite baby, says 'ta' when someone gives her something and 'ta' when she gives someone else something, to tell them to say ta too. It's adorable. She claps her hands and dances whenever music comes on, even if it is an advert on the TV. She will clap her hands if someone says "cap 'ands" or "yay!" or "clever!", and will dance if someone says "dance" and jigs about with her.

She had an accident the other week, which lead to me realising just how much of a little monkey she is! She can now climb up the bottom step of my stairs. She hasn't got the balance to sit on the thin step yet though, that's what lead to her accident. I had no idea she could do this until she hurt herself.

I can't really think of much else, but if you have any questions on something then fire away :)