This is Hayden Jane.
~ 9 months to 11 months ~
December 2020
Waving on command! So cute.
Dec 17-20 Slinger Family tour (Madison and Faribault) -- see blog post! Included below with cousin Elsie and Lena.
Dec 20 … 7 steps!! Longest stretch to date
More and more "open water crossings" walking
Is it a hat? (Putting everything on top of her head)
12.22.20 All about walking now!
12.24.20 and 12.25.20 First Christmas Eve & Christmas Day!
~~ Christmas Eve 2020 ~~
Braver every day with walking
"Dadadadada!"
Mom's bloody lip and Hayden's bloody nose (2nd to last picture in Dec)
12.31.20 First ear infection :( found at 9 month checkup
January 2021
1.1.21 Safety locks installed on cabinet doors!
Outdoor fun with a few friends (Sam Rammel, Hannah Kufhaul)
1.2.21 Sam: "Hayden Jane you're a tiny, little booger
If you were in the pantry, you would be the sugar"
LOVES “running” (Mom/Dad hold hand(s) and walk really fast)
Banging anything onto everything
Mmmmmmming while eating
Likes: ground beef, noodles, cheese, "ice cream" (frozen fruit and veggies blends)
1.5.21 Such BIG smiles these days!!
Getting her strider bike ready for action….
Audible giggler! Way cute
Morning cuddles and kisses with Canyon
1.6.21 Strider rocker! First bike day. New boots day.
Pointing!
Helps turn book pages
Brings us books to read (favorite="I look up to… RBG")
Grandparents weekend
1.9.21 Visit to Grinny and Bopa's
1.10.21 Surprise visit from Grandma Elsie and Grandpa Ron visit to celebrate mom's bday!
First lime :)
1.10.21 Putting treats on top of her water/sippie cups and eating them?
Bringing books to Dad/Mom to sit and read 🤗
Carrying Comet the Bear (aka "Mar Bear") all over the house
Loves clementines, strawberries, noodles, cheese
1.15.21 Dad and Hayden made cupcakes for Mom's birthday -- and bought beautiful flowers!
-- TEN MONTHS --
Picks up as many letters of her "HAYDEN" puzzle board as she can
1.20.21 She claps!! 👏 👏
Working on Peekaboo (covers various parts of her face, forehead and top of head)
Getting better at walking in shoes; practicing on the really cold days of winter 👟 👠
Fast walker! Wants to run
1.25.21 Blowing kisses!!!
Carries her dirty laundry (mostly polka dot pants) all over the house
Playing under the kitchen table, even though she's too tall and bumps her head the whole time
1.31.21 Starting to take steps in her snow boots outside; she has been hesitant to do so. They are def too big.
Video dinner chats with mom at work :)
February 2021
Always has her left foot up when eating in her chair on the island
"Slinger Perpetual Motion machine"
Shows us "all done" and "milk" hand signs
On demand: blow a kiss 💋, wave good-bye 👋
Chasing Canyon around with tufts of his hair from the carpet….
Waves, says "bye" (kinda)
Runs. Everywhere.
2.7.21 Puts our phones up to her ear! Crazy. And other objects and toys!
2.8.21 Playing catch/roll the ball back and forth
2.11.21 Climbing onto and sitting on her Strider bike! Bouncing and a little rocking on the bike
Climbing everything! Jungle couch for more surface area to climb and walk and explore
Still not loving her boots outside in the snow
Silly, "wobble" walk
2.16.21 Sam: "11 months old, thinks "no no no" is the funniest shit ever."
Blowing kisses ALL day, with smacking of her lips!
Little sponge is mimicking us and will copy what we do -- really cool!
More dinner chats with mom at work
-- ELEVEN MONTHS --
