eleven months

bennett, you are eleven months old!!

• you weigh 20 lbs.
• you are 29 inches long.
• you are in a size 3 diaper.
• you are in mostly 12 month clothes except for pants. all pants are too big for you in the waist, and no long enough in the legs. :( you just moved up to 18 month pajamas.  they are big on you, but the 12 months were getting really tight.
• you are in a size 2 shoe.

• you have 2 teeth on the bottom! still no more, but i keep thinking any day that you will have more.
• you are walking really really good behind push toys, and along the furniture holding on.
• you have started eating a lot more solid food.
• you take 2 naps a day. one around 10:30, and the other around 2:30.
• you are still breastfeeding morning and night, even though i'm not sure that you are getting much. but, it's routine, and i think we will both be ready to kiss nursing goodbye in a month.

• you take about 3 or 4 formula bottles a day, and sometimes 1 during the night.
• you have been doing much better with your sleeping at night. you usually only get up once now, if at all.
• you go to bed around 8 or 8:30pm, and get up around 7:30am.
• you are still very much in love with balls and tractors. you have a car that you like to push around too.
• you are crawling all over the house. you go from one end to the other in no time flat!

• you finally started waving bye bye and clapping. you like to shake things a lot, and you like pat-a-cake.
• you love love love your sister, and she loves you just as much. you both play so well together, and she looks after you like a little mama. she tries her best to take care of you.
• you are very much a mama's boy right now.  you love your daddy too, and like to play with him, but you hug and love on me like no other.  you are the sweetest baby ever!

• you have gotten to where you toss and turn in our arms, so we give you a bottle, and then put you to bed.  you cry for less than 5 minutes, and then you go right to sleep.  nap times too.
• your favorite place to play is in your sister's room. i find you back there a lot.
• you are doing much better riding in the car.  you hardly ever cry anymore, unless you have been in your seat for a really long time.

bennett & austin at 11 months.