Eleven Months

Oh, my sweet boy. How can you be one month away from turning one?! The months have flown by, and here we are, you're eleven months and growing fast!

 

You are a handsome little fella. You do this adorable eyebrow raise sometimes and it always cracks me up. Sometimes it's almost in a sarcastic way, other times it's almost as if you're motioning 'hey, what's up!' when you are doing something you know you shouldn't be...hitting the tv, getting into the dog bowls...

You are a fast crawler still, and will walk with our hands but not much before you go back to what you know best in crawling.

You babble and babble and I love it. It's the cutest sound to me when you're 'talking'.

You barely sat still, and when you did you just gave me that ornery smile!

 

You get completely over zealous towards light fixtures, but especially fans. Or almost anything that spins. You'll stick your arms and legs out straight and start to kick/shake them in excitement. It is the funniest thing ever and everyone gets a good laugh out of your silly reaction.

You are a little lover. You'll get excited to see people, and it's adorable, but you also get overly excited and kind of hit in the moment of it all. Like multiple times-tap, tap, tap on the persons head or body as you start to shrill or smile real big.

You kind of bite, but luckily not really biting down-just another thing you do in excitement. Always puts a good amount of fear in a person though when you go in for a hug with those two sharp teeth involved!

You absolutely love your brother. He adores you, but also thinks you're bigger than you are so usually the two of you playing alone doesn't last too long before we here you fuss. But, not always, and he is the best at getting you to give out good laughs.

Cuteness, and a funny showing big bro's enthusiasm and you're hesitation towards it:)

 

You have a routine of waking up between four and five in the morning for a bottle, then returning to sleep for a short while. Not sure how ending bottles soon will go with that, and what will happen in that whole new transition.

You love to mooch, or at least try to, but don't take as well to solid food. When we had a pre-thanksgiving when Jacob and his family was in town you loved the mashed potatoes, gravy and tiny bits of turkey together, but other than that-you only sometimes do well with baby food. You like the snack baby food, but it just depends. I'm assuming once you get more teeth that may change.

You are recently getting over a cold, which turned up to be a crappy hand/foot/mouth virus. Didn't take you in for it, because it wasn't until day six or seven of the runny nose crud that blisters showed up on your hands and some breakout around the mouth. There's nothing they can do for it, and you were still acting like a good trooper, so just praying that time brings you healing and you feel better soon.

You are the best. You love to laugh, you never want to miss a moment, you are very curious and always on the go. We love you to pieces little man. You are the best little brother and son we could have and we're so excited to see you continue to grow!

Praying God protects and guides you, buddy. We love you so much! xoxo