September 8
Lucas is still such a sweet, happy, content baby! He keeps our whole family smiling, and we can't wait to see what he is going to do next. We are having so much fun watching him grow and change. I would slow it down if I could, because this little baby brings us so much joy, I want to have time to soak it all in! Here are some things about our little 11 month old:
- He is very BUSY, and it is worth mentioning again that he is into EVERYTHING! He especially loves pulling things out of cupboards and drawers. He loves to bang on the things he takes out. It makes him so happy that I often just let him destroy and then put it back together for him to do again!
- He just learned to stand on his own. He can balance on his own for a few seconds. He will just stand and look around or shake the toy he's holding, then casually kneel down and crawl to where he wants to go. I think walking will come soon, but we aren't pushing it too much. He can walk along furniture a little bit, but he doesn't do it much.
- He climbs up and onto everything he can now.
- He shakes his head back and forth for yes and no. If he gets attention for it, he will just keep shaking it! He does this for strangers in the grocery store and gets some great reactions!
- He will play shy and put his chin down into his chest and lower his eyes at first when people talk to him.
- He is not as patient as he used to be. He gets mad if we do not get him what he wants IMMEDIATELY! Especially if it is food he wants!
- When we call him or tell him no we can often get him to come back or pay attention to us...more than we can from our girls most of the time! He might cry about being told no, but he will often stop doing it.
- He dances with head bops when he hears music. He'll start bopping when the radio is playing or when somebody starts singing.
- He loves his MOMMY very much! He will pull himself up on my leg and cry until I hold him if he doesn't think I am giving him enough attention. He will cry when I leave the room even if Daddy who he adores is holding him. He loves people in general and doesn't have any stranger danger, separation anxiety yet. He just prefers me to be everywhere too!
- He starts giggling and smiling when he hears Daddy come home from work each day.
- He LOVES his sisters and thinks they are both very funny. They can both be pretty rough with him, but are generally great helpers. They love to play with him and think he is very funny and adorable, but they do not like when he destroys their creations. We still call him "Babyzilla!"
- He is still liking baby food with meat in it, like turkey and mixed vegetables and chicken noodle soup, but he doesn't love very much of the basic baby food. He will still eat the baby oatmeal or rice cereal with breakfast though. He is eating more and more people food, and is very excited to try new things. He loves real peaches and watermelon.
- He is still nursing five or so times a day, and is still fast and pretty efficient. I usually go into my room to the rocking chair so there are less distractions.
- He takes a great morning nap, going down around 10 until 12 or so. His afternoon nap has been disrupted with the start of school and activities. He doesn't want to go down until 3:00 or so, but I have to keep him up if I have to get the kids from school for carpool or drive Emilyn to dance. Some days he will skip the afternoon nap now and just be cranky for the afternoon, and sometimes he goes down around 3:45 and takes an hour nap or so. That seems to work out well. He goes to bed around 7:30.
- He has been sleeping through the night most nights now. I am loving it! (Fast forward a few weeks to when I'm writing this and he's been waking up a couple of times a night again. I'm not sure why...hoping he will go back to the sleeping through the night soon!)
- He has gotten a couple more teeth this month. He is NOT happy when they are coming in. We have a much different baby when there are teeth. They seem to take their sweet time and he is pretty uncomfortable. He drools a lot, probably because of the teeth.
- He still loves blocks, little people animals, cars, things that make noise, anything he can find on the floor that he shouldn't have, and his VERY FAVORITE toys these days are BRUSHES!
- He still SCREAMS for no reason when we lay him down to change his diaper or his clothes. We can sometimes comfort him with a binky or a "toy" that he shouldn't have (he still loves to play with things that are not baby appropriate!), but often he just cries and we're not sure why. We're ready for him to be done with this phase. I guess I can't expect him to be perfect though!
- Even if he is cranky or fussy at home, he is usually especially good when we are out. He loves to look around at the people and the action going on around him. He likes to be outside and crawl around getting into trouble.
- He dives head first off of stuff even if he is high up.
- He loves crawling up the stairs. He cracks himself up by crawling as fast as he can over to them when the gate isn't up, turning to us with a big, mischievous smile, and heading upstairs laughing all the way. He really likes us to chase him up! He can also pull the gate down by himself (it isn't attached to anything) if he really wants to get up the stairs.
- His words so far are "ma ma," "da da," "hi," and "oh." He hardly ever says ma ma, but goes around saying da da all the time. He says oh anytime he looks at anything, and hi whenever I say hi to him! He'll say it over and over as I say it back. It's pretty cute. He babbles and chats to himself and to us quite a bit.
- We LOVE this BABY!!!
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