***Publishing a little late***
Oh my gosh. In one month, Brody will be O-N-E! How did this happen?! Let's not let time get away from us. Focus, Jessica. 11 months. Ahhhh, what a relief this month has been. Brody has been sleeping better, becoming a little comedian, and has just been an all around cutie patootie! I could seriously kiss him every second of the day and it not be enough. I am so so thankful to be this little boy's mama and to have such a good hubby/daddy to do it all with. After doing Brody's 10 monther, I realized that I left some stuff out that he has been doing. Oh well, I will just add to this one! How 'bout that? Here we go. At 11 (and 10...) months, you:
-Don’t have any teeth still. whatelseisnew?
-nap twice a day for about 2 hours each. You have always had at least one nap
every day, even if it was only 30 minutes long.
-are pulling yourself up and slowly cruising along
furniture. I don’t really think
you are anywhere near walking on your own. You can’t stand on your own for even 1 second. That’s okay. We still love ya!
-are still affectionate. You love to be held and hugged and played with. You don’t give kisses as much,
but you rub my arm and put your head on my shoulder and it’s the best feeling
ever.
-have only had diaper rash one time and it wasn’t as bad as
I heard it could be, and it lasted less than two days. I attribute it to cloth diapers and
being an avid diaper changer.
About every four hours, even if the diaper doesn’t seem that wet.
-are no longer swaddled. This is one that I have forgotten to mention before. We never really said, “Tonight we are
going to stop swaddling.” You
liked to be swaddled and it helped settle you to sleep and by morning you would
wake up completely undone on the other side of the bed. We never had to go through the
transition of keeping an arm out and then the other one where some parents
struggled with sleepless nights over it.
For the past couple months though, we have just laid a blanket on you
and you’re set. Also, since you
have been able to roll over you have decided that sleeping on your stomach is
most comfortable. Sometimes with
your butt sticking up in the air!
So funny baby.
-LOVE books.
You squeal with excitement when you see one and love helping me turn the
pages when I read to you. You can
be fussy in your car seat and I will hand you The Very Hungry Caterpillar
and your satiated for a long time.
-are waving hello and bye bye, sometimes even saying, “ba ba.” You clap and raise your hands up over
your head when you’re excited.
-shake your head no and nod your head yes. Sometimes you do it on purpose and
other times just to practice. You
usually do it when you are eating and when I am trying to give you kisses (say
‘no’).
-point to everything.
It helps let me know what you want. If you are ready for your nap and I take you in your room
and sign ‘sleep’ you will point to your crib and try to climb out of my arms to
get in bed. If not you point out
the door shaking your head ‘no.’
-are signing and understand my signing and it is so
cute. You sign all done, eat,
milk, and sleep. You also
understand stop and more. You
picked up sleep in one day and it really has made naptime much easier. Sometimes you will do it to let me know
or if you start rubbing your eyes and yawning, I take you to the crib, sign
‘sleep’ and you lay your head on my shoulder. I rub your back for a minute, lay you down and within 10
minutes I don’t hear a sound through the monitor.
-are saying mama and dada discriminately but randomly
too. You also say ba ba, gung
gung, doot, bpt, and have started rolling your tongue and saying lalala. You also make your mouth into a perfect
circle and say ‘ooo ooo ooo’ like
a monkey!
-DANCE! It is
the most precious and hilarious thing I’ve ever seen! As soon as you hear music, whether at home, in the car,
walking into a store, you start nodding your head up and down, waving yours
arms around and/or swaying your shoulders back and forth. You love music.
-are sharing.
It started with your pacifier but now you do it with everything. I give it to you, you give it to
me-back and forth. I am trying to
teach you the ‘thank you’ sign in the process.
-have slowed down your nursing a lot. You still nurse well in the morning,
some in the afternoon, and your bottle of pumped milk daddy gives you at night.
You don’t nurse for comfort
really, only if you are really hungry.
You love your solid food and would much rather have that!
------I have only pumped a couple times this month and it
has been so freeing!!!! You still
have quite a bit stockpiled, but hopefully you will use it because you…
-have started taking less and less during your nighttime
bottle feed. You used to drink 4-8
ounces, but now you only drink 1 or 2 before you get squirmy for bed. You might be dropping this
feeding. Daddy is sad. He used to hold you for about 20
minutes for bed and now it is sometimes 5 minutes or less.
-had your first experience at IHOP. You love their pancakes and eggs.
Thanks for being the best baby in the world and giving mama an easy job! Next post like this will be when you are a whole year old!! AHHHHH!
