11 months

Sleep:

He sleeps 12 hours at night from 7pm to 7 am For most of the month he was still taking 2 long naps averaging 1 and a half to 2 hours each. The last few days, he seems to be phasing out his morning nap himself. He's quiet in his crib for all of 15 to 20 minutes... so we get up play, eat and he's back down at about 11:30-12:00 pm for a couple of hours.

Clothes:
He is all in 12 months now. Shoe size is 4 wide. Size 3 diapers. The last stats are from his 9 month visit which can't still be the case. But they were weight 21.12 pounds (60th percentile) height 29.6 inches (90th percentile). Head circumference 18 1/2 inches. We'll see the dr next month and get updates. Just started wearing shoes really starting on Sunday mornings.

Food:
He eats four times a day. He's now on all table foods. We cut up all his food in to incredibly small soft portions. We changed to the plastic bibs with the pouch to catch all the food that he looses grip of on the way from the tray to his mouth. Prefers to feed himself rather than us feeding him. He still has four teeth- top two front and bottom teeth. Brushes his teeth every morning with mommy or daddy.

Meal one- 6 oz bottle with cut up blueberry muffin,or pancake
Meal two- 6 oz bottle with steamed broccoli and peas
Meal three-6 oz bottle with applesauce or yogurt melts.
Meal four- whatever we are having for dinner followed by his nighttime 8 oz bottle

Socially:
Very curious about objects but shy with new adults or those he didn't see regularly. He relaxes within about 10 minutes. When it's new children, he's fine right off the bat. Words: dada and dadee, mumbles for an extended period of time as though he's holding his end of a conversation.

Developmentally:

Crawling up the stairs.

He just started in the last couple of days to sit and try to scoot down the stairs. It's definitely a funny work in progress.

He will stand alone momentarily.

Rolls a ball (not necessarily back to us) when we roll it to him.

He started clapping on his own and he'll high five me
Cruises the furniture pretty fast independently.
Big boy crawls anywhere he wants to go. Pretty much permanent red knees these days
Successfully mimics our facial expression, sticking tongue out, especially the super cheesy grin
Still puts most new things in the mouth, maybe a little less than he used to.

Will give something up when asked to with out tears (yeaaa)
Constantly on the move, doesn't sit still long unless eating.
There is no doubt when he wants to be picked up now as he will crawl over to where we are standing and scale our calves.
He can get in to the bathroom/ kitchen drawers. Thankfully he's too short to actually get his hand up in to the them.

We are working on concepts like hot/ cold. Up/ down. Labeling things. Asking preferences.

Matthew highlight:
First Hair cut

Mommy/ Daddy Highlights:

Started our first small group with a mobile little guy with 6 other little ones, lots of fun!
Daddy went to a Promise Keepers event

Mommy started helping with Matthew's class during Bible Class time on Sunday mornings

In October we are looking forward to dressing up for trunk or treats and fall festivals, going to a pumpkin patch and Matthew's first birthday party :-)