Another Journey...: 11 months

One year is coming too fast! My baby girl cannot be a year old already, this year has just flown by! The latest step count is 8 steps. She is just too chicken (and crawling is way faster) to walk much yet. She has great balance and can stand for a very long time, but once she realizes you aren't holding onto her anymore she practically just sits down. Chloe definitely says "daddy" and "ma ma" a lot and has recently added "uh oh" to her vocabulary. She says it a lot just beginning this weekend. She used to say "go" and "gog(dog)" quite a bit as well but not so much lately.
Chloe continues to love to play with Preston and he generally enjoys playing with her as long as she doesn't mind him snatching toys away from her. Chloe will just laugh and laugh at Preston, especially if he is playing with Daddy. Today they were playing tag for a bit and Chloe loved watching them run and "scare" each other.
Preston is becoming quite the little preschooler! He is trying to read and spell words. He can spell and read "go" for sure. He tries to spell "stop" just gets the letters out of order. Over the weekend we were reading nursery rhymes and AJ asked him what a word was in Hey Diddle, Diddle and he sounded out the word "dog"! Potty training is on an upswing right now. He seems to want to use the potty again for the most part. I'm just ready for him to be out of diapers but without forcing the issue!
Our weather has been up and down like crazy lately! Preston has been in the sprinkler in the past couple of weeks and also had to break out the light coat. Yesterday Joplin got hit with an EF4 tornado and have terrible destruction in almost the whole town. The tornado was 3/4 miles wide and went through a 6 mile stretch. A lot of the town is just completely leveled. We saw a sign of God's promise probably about the same time as the tornado was hitting them - a double rainbow.
Mother's Day was a fantastic day and we had a great time. We went to our friend's church to see their baby dedication and then went out to lunch. My present was a mother's bracelet and it is beautiful! I have worn it everyday since it was given to me. It has Preston and Chloe's names and their birthstones. It reminds me of them all day long at work (and that I would rather be with them!). I was trying to convince AJ today that since he gets 3 months off every year, I should only work 3 days a week - that only seems fair to me!
Well I have taken a lot of pictures in the past couple of weeks. Chloe is 11 months old and officially 49 weeks today. I cannot believe there are only 3 more weeks until she is 1....