Daniel: 11 months

 

11 months

 

Sleep:

He sleeps 11 -12 hours at night from 8:30 pm to 8 am. He looked to be starting to phase out his afternoon nap, but upon some advice we have been cutting the morning one short to keep the afternoon nap. 8 hours is too long to be awake in one stretch in baby land.

Clothes:

He is in 12 months shirts. Shoe size is 3. Size 3 diapers. We'll get updated physical stats at the one year *gulp* appointment next month. We've been clothes shopping since big brother's 12 month things were all winter items.

Food:
Daniel eats four times a day. He's transitioning to more table foods due to the 4 teeth he has now :-)  We cut up all the table food in to incredibly small soft portions. He doesn't use the baby bibs anymore, 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. He's prefers to feed himself rather than us feeding him. He's joined the rest of the family in brushing his teeth every morning with mommy or daddy.

Meal one- nursing with cut up cereal, and fruit
Meal two- Nursing with fruit pouch (he's really good at it!) , vegetables, gerber graduate crunchers and a protein
Meal three-Nursing with applesauce, stage 3 food and yogurt melts.
Meal four- whatever we are having for dinner followed by his nighttime nursing

Great fun photo session in the back yard this last month :-)

Socially:
Very curious about objects and still goes to anyone and will smile and laugh easily. Words: dada and mama, mumbles for an extended period of time as though he's holding his end of a conversation. Mimics lots of our sounds.

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.

He started clapping on his own 

Cruises the furniture pretty fast independently.
Big boy crawls anywhere he wants to go.
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.

Reaches out for the opposite parent to hold himworking still on signing all done and more for eating

 Inspired by this post entitled I know my child..... 

 I know my child has five different kinds of smiles...

 I know my child will push any object in sight for the opportunity to walk behind it

I know my child snorts when he laughs really hard

I know my child lights up when he sees daddy walk in the door

I know my child can't get enough of his big brother and is in personal space when ever possible

I know my child will barely move if I set him down in the grass

I know my child giggles for some reason when you hand him a tooth brush

Daniel highlight:
First Hair cut by mommy.