"Mason-Man" or "Masaroni" is just getting too big. Where the heck did my baby go!? He is just too fun these days. He really is the happiest baby until food time rolls around. He loves to play with Calvin and crawls around looking for him so they can play chase. Speaking of.... Mason went from his army crawl to crawling normally pretty much overnight, just a few days after he turned 10 months.
As for the biggest news this month....HE HAS ONE TOOTH. That's right, just one. He got it about 2.5 weeks ago and we have yet to see any other teeth emerge. He loves that one tooth though; he smiles and smiles when I give him a piece of apple and he just chews it with that one tooth and smiles when he does it.
In other news, Mason dropped to one liquid feeding right before two days after he turned 10 months, and then about 5 days before he turned 11 months I stopped nursing him before bed and he just takes a bottle, half of my pumped milk we had in the freezer mixed with whole cows milk. He seems fine. I was training for a marathon and with traveling and such it was just easier to not have to pump for the one night feeding when I wasn't getting more than a few ounces anyway (I was getting 3-4 and he eats about 8)
Mason walks along furniture, crawls up the stairs, falls down the stairs, and can stand for a few seconds on his own. A few of his favorite activities are pulling out all the silverware from the dirty dishwasher as I am trying to load, eating crumbs off the floor and from his high chair and tipping over the garage can to see what scraps he can find in there. Needless to say, our kitchen needs a gate around it.
Mason loves going new places and trying to charm as many people as possible (with a 99% success rate). He can say "mama" "dada" and "more" and gets angry if I try to make him sign. He babbles his own made up language about 99.5% of the time. He is still a champion sleeper for nights and for naps (I can't remember the last time he woke up in the middle of the night).
During his eleventh month of life he had a lot of firsts: He went to S. California for the first time as well as Disneyland. He went on his first cross-country flight to visit Washington DC where Robert was doing a rotation and residency interviews. While in DC he went to his first zoo and we discovered this little guy is obsessed with animals. First time spending more than 24 hours away from Calvin and more than 2 days away from Robert.
