Madelyn 11 months!

Eleven months, wait that is almost a year old! Holy cow my baby is almost one year! Here are some facts about her:
*Madelyn is such a joy, when she is content that it, if she is tired, doesn't get her way, or hungry she is a beast! She knows what she wants and is not afraid to tell you she wants it...NOW!
*When she is happy her smile is huge and she squeals with delight, and points at things she wants or is curious about.
*She is such a smarty, I was putting on my running shoes one morning before taking Rylan to school and she saw me and went into her room and got her shoes and gave them to me!
*She loves to be read to, she will grab a book and walk over to you then turn around and "back herself up" into your lap. If there is a food item in the book she will try and lick it.
*She has decided that me feeding her with a spoon is way to immature for her so I have to get a spoonful and hand it to her then she feeds herself and hands the spoon back to me.
*She loves baby dolls. She will pick them up and hug them and say, "ohh." We took her birthday present shopping for Rylan and she would smile and squeal when we went by a "girl isle" every time, but do nothing when we went by a boy isle!
*She has quite the vocabulary too, she says: Mama, dada if she hears the garage door open she starts yelling DADA!), uh-oh (she likes to drop things off her high chair just so she can say it) Ry-ry, cracker (sounds more like caka) more, nana (for banana) and baba for bottle. Although she has been known to mix up mama and baba and call her bottle a maba. Both things give her milk so hey that is understandable.
*She LOVES to be outside, I think I have said that before, but she just whines at the door for us to take her out there. We went camping last weekend and she was so happy! I think she licked and sucked on every rock that was in our campsite though, she even tried to eat some sand.
*She loves to randomly spit, she growls at people and smiles when meeting them. (her daddy does this to her when he chases her) so she thinks it is acceptable.
*She waves hi and bye, and claps when there is a song she likes on the radio.
*All day she follows me around and misplaces things, for instance...I find the remote on the stairs, a tupperware lid in the hallway, a book in the bathtub, her baby doll on my bedroom floor, and so on ALL OVER THE HOUSE! I have even found some toys in the toliet! We try to keep that door closed!
*She shakes her head no if you ask her something, but I don't think she really knows what it means yet, because she will shake her head if you ask her if she wants a cookie then she will reach for it!
*If you catch her doing something naughty and you say, "Maddy!" she gets a scared look on her face and runs the opposite direction, sometimes trying to hide what she has or sometimes she throws it down.

That is our dear sweet Madelyn.