When did our sweet little girl stop being a baby and become the cute toddler she is today? If you ask Astrid, it was around 11 months old.

When we’re looking at old photos, sometimes she correctly identifies herself and sometimes all she sees is a baby. I was curious when the shift from “baby” to “Astrid” happened. So I devised an experiment.

I took 50 photos in an album and asked Astrid to identify who was in them. 25 photos were of Astrid and 25 photos were of animals, relatives, and other babies.

The photos were in a random order but here are the sorted results:

Astrid – 1 month	Baby – 2 months	Baby – 3 months	Baby – 4 months	Baby – 5 months
Baby – 6 months	Baby – 7 months	Baby – 7.5 months	Baby – 8 months	Astrid – 9 months
Baby – 10 months	Astrid – 11 months	Baby – 12 months	Astrid – 13 months	Astrid – 14 months
Baby – 15 months	Astrid – 16 months	Astrid – 17 months	Astrid – 18 months	Astrid – 19 months
Astrid – 20 months	Astrid – 21 months	Astrid – 22 months	Astrid – 23 months	Astrid – 24 months

So, around 9-11 months old she gets pretty good at identifying herself. I’d have to agree this is the point where she looks more like a child and less like a baby. I’m not sure how she identified the 1 month old photo of herself (luck I guess).

It was fun going through the photos with her. In the 2-month and 5-month photos she recognized her bunny and spoon and seemed surprised that some other baby had them. The only false positive was this photo which she thought was herself but is actually me at 18 months old.

Full album: