Eleven Months

Our darling boy is now a month away from turning one and my heart breaks a little bit when I think about it. He is the goofiest little boy; he is starting to do things now just to make us giggle and he loves to laugh as well, mostly he laughs at himself.

He can say "mom" and "dad" more clearly now, but those are still his only words. His new trick that he learned a few days ago is pointing to his ears, nose or mouth when we ask him.When I ask him "where is your nose?" he will only ever point to my nose, never his. His signing vocabulary has grown to include "please" and "all done" along with his usual "more" and "food".

He loves to clap for himself whenever he hears "yay" or "good job", make the fish noise/mouth, point at EVERYTHING, scrunch his nose and walk around with his walker. I use the word walk loosely, he is either on his knees pushing it around, or sprinting with it while screaming a nice war cry.

He stands up on everything and is pretty good at standing up, until he realizes that he isn't holding anything and then he squats down. He also refuses to walk unless we are holding both of his fingers. We try and get him to walk between two people, but he just stands and then falls forwards without taking any steps. It's hilarious.

We definitely have a social butterfly on our hands. Meeting new people makes him happy happy happy; mostly when they play with him and tell him how adorable he is (he gets it...a lot. I think he knows it, too :) When we are at church or on airplanes he looks around and talks to people until they acknowledge him and interact with him and he gets mad if they don't!

He is getting into his "helping" stage and won't let me in the kitchen if he isn't there to help. Stirring on the stove, whisking eggs and flipping pancakes are his personal favorite cooking chores. He may have gotten curry all over my favorite white shorts and ruined them, but I have forgiven him :)

In the last week or so he has switched to 12-18 month clothing for about 90%, he still has a few 6-12/9-12 month things he can wear.  Calvin loves swimming and especially going to the beach at Lake Tahoe. He crawls like a bear all over the sand and especially loves to be buried in the sand. I don't know why, but it's hilarious.

 

He dropped another liquid feeding, so he is down to nursing/bottle to once a day, right before he goes to bed at 7:30. He was getting ready for breakfast about 20 minutes after he nursed when he woke up at 7 so I decided to try taking him straight to breakfast instead and he hasn't looked back!  His favorite breakfast foods are still eggs, pancakes and green smoothies. He LOVES any sort of berry, especially blueberries. Even though he still only has two bottom teeth he prefers to take bites out of food rather than us cut it up and put it on his tray. There are very few things he wont eat, but he definitely has preferences. Some dinners he gobbles it right up and others he takes forever to eat because he tries to pick around things.

We just love this crazy boy even more than last month and love seeing his personality come out!