Alex is Eleven Months Old!!!

GAH!  STOP IT!  Seriously how are we already here?  This year has been crazy.  It's happened too
 fast, where is my rewind button?  Unbelievable that in a month my baby will be one.  Time goes by way too fast.   I feel like I needed more time to enjoy all the things baby for the last time.  I mean I'm completely over some of the stuff don't get me wrong babies are all fun and joy, they are a mess of blow out diapers, never sleeping a solid night of sleep for the first year (oh, that's just my kids?  Sleep deprivation is real and also why I have zero bull shit tolerance these days.), and they bite the boob that feeds them.  Those things I'm over but the cuddly little baby stuff, oh how I could handle that forever.

Anyhow, Eleven Months!

I have no clue how much the little monster man weighs right now and no clue how long he is.  I won't have a good stat update until after his first birthday provided we don't have any sick doctor appointments.

What I do know is that he's quickly becoming a walking fool.  Trading his crawling for walking a lot of the time, but he still saves his speed crawl for when he's gotta get somewhere fast!!!

He's attempting more words but still is mostly a man of few I think.  I think he's got his version of "dog" down pretty well.  What he is REALY FRICKING GOOD at is screeching.  Wholly hell the boy can hit the high notes!!!  Ear piercing shrieking is just too much for me!  He also is doing more dexterity things like he's improved his wave, he high fives when he wants to and he pretty much never stops pointing at things.

He's still in 12 month clothing but I've also added in his 18 month stuff and he wears that just fine.  He still has big old fat feet and tears his socks off the first chance he gets.  Not uncommon to see him rockin' the one sock look.

Still eating anything and everything that you put in front of him.  Let hope he continues to not be a picky eater for the rest of his life.

While I'm slightly sad that he's almost one I cannot wait to quit the breast pump, as a matter of fact if I quit breast feeding all together I wouldn't mind that either.  I'm over it.  But so far we're hanging in there and he will get to 12 months on breast milk for sure at this point.

I'm trying to remember if we did anything exciting to remember this month but I'm drawing a big fat blank.  Because January's are for holiday recovery and when you live in Michigan - Hibernation.  That and I was rather busy with my photography business for the middle of the winter.

I'm debating on whether to join the Tula Momma's of Michigan (facebook group) in their trip to the new Aquarium in Auburn Hills at the beginning of March...I won't know a soul but it would be fun for the kids and I wanted to take them anyway!

Let the birthday party planning chaos take over!!

Alex is Ten Months Old!

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I’m totally late with the pictures and the update this month!  Time is flying by and I’m struggling to keep up!  Trying to get a head start on First birthday planning because I know as soon as I blink it’s going to be March 6^th! 

So Alex turned ten months old, we had his 9 month well baby visit just Friday.  He weighed in at 23lbs 13oz.  He is 29 ½ inches long and his melon is 18” around.  He definitely falls at the other side of the percentile chart as Addison did. 

Our pediatrician asked about what he eats and I told her “anything and everything that you offer him”.  She asked if I feed baby foods and I told her the only things he gets that are technically baby food since we started solids were the pureed food pouches and those were mostly just for convenience factor.  The rest of the time he eats what we eat.  She surprised me by saying “good, that’s how we should do it!”  So many pediatricians and their old ways suggesting baby cereal and things when it’s not necessary, I was glad to hear her say that.  BLW for the win!

Alex continues to have that “boy” appetite; he eats anything and everything that you put in front of him.  I made fish for the first time for him the other day and he devoured it like he hadn’t eaten in weeks.  Not a picky kid, at this point anyway!

Still in a size 4 diaper and officially moved on to his 12 month clothing, though he can definitely wear his 18 month clothing too at this point.  I kind of just put him in whatever of the two sizes.

This month was huge for Alex by way of developmental milestones.  He finally decided that he could clap and wave in the same day.  Once he figured out his hands worked how he wanted them to it was on! 

On New Year’s Eve with a full audience he decided that he would just take a few steps, he managed 4 before falling and then repeated it for me to get a video with just to steps.  After that he was so excited from all of our oohing and ahhhing that he couldn’t do much but hop and fall on his butt.  He hasn’t been excited about taking more than a step her or there since.  So not a full-fledged walker yet but he knows how to do it!

Alex is saying “da-da” and “Maaaam!” I’m pretty sure that he’s trying to say “yay!” when he claps; it sure sounds like it anyway.  He’s possibly trying to say “sissy” also though it’s hard to tell if that’s actually it from the “diss-dee” sound that comes out

Alex is still exclusively breastfed, outside of the real food that he eats.  He has cut back on how much milk he drinks though only nursing or taking a bottle of breast milk about 3 times during the day.  Which means I’ve cut down to only having to pump twice at work instead of three times, I think at 11 months I’ll try and cut back to just once a day.  As much as I am an advocate for breastfeeding I also cannot wait to break up with my breast pump and quit lugging my life back and forth to work every day!

Alex celebrated his first Christmas this month, nine months was a good age for a first Christmas.   Old enough to kind of rip apart some presents and big enough to actually play with some of them.  It was a good Christmas and both the kids were of course spoiled beyond belief.  Both kids went on their first Train ride when we did the “ride with Santa” in Coldwater this month.  Addison really enjoyed it, Alex was pretty indifferent J

Addison's 2014 Christmas Wish List

Lets be honest, 4 year olds, they want EVERYTHING that they see.  Every commercial, every toy, everything.

This year we really didn't know what to get her because, again, let's be honest here, she has EVERYTHING she could want and then some.  Two parents who buy them everything because we can.  The kids want for nothing.

But when we told her she had to come up with something to tell Santa when she saw him, these are a few of the things she mentioned along with a few other things she's told me she wants.

Ninja Turtle "STUFF"

Anna & Elsa Dolls

Puppy Surprise, The purple one.  Anyone remember these from what the 90's??