11 months

I swear our genius child remembers what George on sofa and mama with the camera means because he would never just sit like this, especially with the full on pose! What a ham!

Daddy always makes him laugh!

Just had to show off the curls:)

Wow, 11 months....hard to believe. What lucky parents we are. As trying as the 10 month has been some days since Max has developed quite a little temper, we still just feel like the luckiest parents ever.

Max just seems smarter to us every day. He knows everything you're saying, things you would have no idea but he looks right to the right place (button, necklace, airplane, etc). He's walking with his push walker and all along furniture. The other day he stood for a few seconds before he realized. I'm sure he could walk if he wanted but he's a champion crawler and really just has no desire at this point. He's also become quite the climber these days too....we've started to call him a little monkey, the most random things he'll find to try to climb up or in to. Its a good thing we have the pac-n-play downstairs yet as a play pen because you really can't leave him too long, even in our "baby-proof" house! He's said dada a few times but besides mama, ball and book the rest of his speeches (which he gives very serious ones, waving his fingers and all) are pretty much jumble. But he can make any kind of spitting or lip movement noise imaginable! He's becoming more clingy and shy around strangers. He still loves his cars and trucks. He has a few riding toys but almost prefers just playing with them while sitting next to them rather than riding on them.

He's sleeping and napping well for the most part, two regular naps still and I don't see that ending any time soon because he's exhausted by 9:30am! He's eating well...... but we're still on baby food. The Dr. told us months ago we could eat what we eat but he has a texture issue. He'll eat any flavor baby food, fruit or crunchy thing but he won't eat any real people food otherwise. We've managed to get him to eat a few spoonfuls of scrambled egg (but again, has to be on a spoon because he won't pick it up or let you hand put it in his mouth) but he's still refused even mashed potatoes. So we just keep trying and realize that its just not something to get too worked up about and hopefully Gerber won't be in his lunch box when he starts school. The good thing is, besides his crunchy snacks, he's still eating all fruits and veggies and yogurt with some baby food mixtures of meats and pastas so he's a very healthy boy! (Just meaning we're not on the chicken nugget and hot dog diet I'm sure is to come.) He still takes 3 or 4 bottles a day but less and less in them so he'll be ready for milk when he turns 1.

So that's our 11 month update.... the next one is just too sad to even think about!

Max with his walker....he just loves this thing!

And of course, tada..... Max finally got some teeth! These bottom two came in together, his first and only so far. It seems like his next will be on the bottom towards the outside too.