11 Months

I can't believe in one month we will be celebrating your first birthday! 

This month was definitely the month of the teeth!  At the start of the month you had two teeth and at the end you had 6 total!  It seemed like overnight that you got 4 upper teeth and you are never happy when we try to look at them.  You have also been constantly on the move.   You have gotten much better at balancing yourself as you are cruising around everywhere.  You have also stood by yourself for seconds at a time and I think in your mind you are wanting to walk.. It is only a matter of time before we will be chasing you everywhere.

In family news, we sold and closed on our house in Columbus on November 8.  We all drove up to Columbus one last time to pack up our final belongings and say goodbye to the place.  Of course, I started crying as we left because of all the memories we had in that house.  I know you will never remember your first home but I definitely will because  it was the house that we brought you home for the first time as a family of three. 

In terms of home, we are still living with Grandma and Grandpa Lucas until we close on our house on December 31.  If that date sounds familiar it because it is your first birthday!! What a great birthday present you will have, a new house for all of us.

In other news, you were Student of the Month at daycare, so I sent in several pictures of your first 10 months of life and your information was hung on the door for everyone to read about the entire month.  Speaking of daycare, you are really settling in there and are loving the new environment.  I am so happy we found a place that you like!!

Overall Health

November started out as a healthy and happy month for you, but towards the end of the month, on November 18 to be exact, you woke up with your eyes COMPLETELY COVERED in goop.  It was almost as if your eyes had massive boogers in them.  You were not happy, and I didn't like it either because it seemed like  you were in pain.  So, Dad took you by himself to the new pediatrician in Cincinnati.  She gave you some antibiotics and your eyes cleared up within a day.   You still have a cough that has stuck around though, but we have all been sick over the past couple weeks so that is probably why it is staying around.  One funny thing to note is that you have a rather large head ( in the 90th percentile)  When the doctor saw you for the first time she said, "Wow, he has a really big head.  We will need to monitor that".  Why I think your large head was inherited through me, there is nothing wrong with it.  It just makes it tough to put on shirts sometimes. :)

Clothes

It has definitely been feeling A LOT colder here this past month.  We had our first significant snowfall of the year, which means you have been wearing your sweaters/sweatpants/long sleeved onesies mostly.  You are finally fitting nicely in your 12 month clothes (and some 18 month onesies here and there), and your nine month pants are starting to look like capris on you!

Diet

You still looove food and cannot get enough of it.  This month you started eating the lunch at daycare and they also echo the thought that you love your food and are a good eater.  You even ate peanut butter (through a peanut butter cracker) and there were no issues with that.  With your growing amount of teeth you are starting to chew things more (including cheerios).  In the liquid department, this month we started you on some formula and some breastmilk.  You are slowly starting to not want your bottles anymore and since you mastered the straw sippy cup I want to try and get you to wean off of it relatively soon after turning one.

Milestones

This month you continued to "talk" a lot with your various sounds.  You also love to mimic others when making their sounds.  You also started giving kisses to us on November 12 and it is the cutest (and sloppiest) thing ever.  You open your mouth wide and give us a big slobbery smooch.  Another thing you do (which is also cute),  is whenever I say, "aww, baby" you lay your head down on my shoulder like you are going to go to sleep but don't . 

In the motor skills department, you are standing on your own and wanting to take a step but haven't done one yet.  I'm not sure if you will be walking by your first birthday but I'm not really worried since you have mastered the art of getting around the house by crawling and cruising across furniture.  And, you are still a dancing fool that dances to pretty much everything that plays music.   

Statistics

You went to the doctor's this month because of your cough and you weighed 21.5 lbs.  She did say that you have a very large head just by looking at you, so that was funny.  They didn't take your height measurement so I guess we will wait on that until your one year appointment.   

Here is an overview of the past month in pictures.