11 Months

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Weight: 21.5lbs
Height: 27-28?in

Grady at 11 Months

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We cruise with purpose.  All around the table.  Not really between two objects (from coffee table to chair).  But he does cruise from the coffee table to the couch but those are so close together it hardly counts.  He waves occasionally, if he's interested.  He feeds himself.  He drinks from a cup.  He likes all manner of food though he can be picky about how he puts things in his mouth.  He does not like spoons.  He eats about three 3.5oz containers of mixed puree's a day.  Plus crackers, humus, chopped up fruit, some of whatever I'm eating, and four nursing sessions.  You'd think he'd gain weight.  But spinach, apple and mango doesn't really pack a lot of fat.  He has had milk and has not reacted to it.  As of this month he is "allowed" have cows milk rather than breast milk.  I'm in no hurry but I will do a better job of slowing introducing.  I will probably keep four feedings through this month, rather than what I did with G which was drop to three at 11 months, then to two at 11.5 months and to none by a year.

I'm not prolonging it because I want to prolong nursing, I just think that he will do better calorically if he's nursed longer.  G would have been better served if I'd been smarter.

None of the pictures I uploaded show his top two teeth.  Sheesh.  He has four teeth.  G keeps saying "he's got more teeth mama!"  As if it is big news for him to see his brother with teeth.

He is sleeping great.  I can lay him down awake and walk away.  Sometimes he cries for a while but he usually settles in.  I do rock him a bit longer than I did G, to try to make it easier on him.  I spoil my babies.

He wakes up sometimes and I let him cry, not ever for very long and not straight.  If he cries and then lays down, then gets up and cries again, I let him do that for quite a while.  If it goes on too long obviously something is going on that he can't get over.  (Usually he's gone to the bathroom).

In many ways he still seems like a complete baby to me.  While at the same age, G seemed like a growing toddler.  Not sure why this would be.  I do think I have a faulty memory.

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He is a cutie.  He is babbling more and more and I think I hear words every now and then.  I think I hear him say "again" or "yea" or "no."  Someone told me that their kids eyes got darker at 18mos so now I keep thinking his eyes are getting darker.  It will make no never mind to me.  Though I have loved his baby blues.

He was at home with Grandma today while G had a special outing with mom and dad and when we got home he made over G and just kept giving him kisses.  We really think he was trying to give him kisses.  It was very cute.

I do not think his hair is going to curls like G's did.

I can not believe he is almost a year old.  The one year mark just really marks the end of his infancy and it's a big deal for him and me.  We have almost survived.  He is darling.  And we love him.