Happy 11 Months!

Wow, 11 months? That means I only have one month left of my "I can't do that, I just had a baby" excuses. "I can't wash dishes, I just gave birth," or "I can't cook because I just had a baby a few months ago," etc... (Just kidding! I DO NOT do this, but it would be nice if we were allowed a full year to recover, right?)

Anyways, it's so sad to think that my little boy is almost a year old. Boo hoo hoo. It's crazy to think back to a year ago. I was waddling to and from my office at work, eating every half hour, sitting in meetings trying not to squeal when a little foot would kick me in the ribs, trying to hide the kicking feet or hiccups that noticeably made my stomach jump up and down, and listening to everyone's encouraging words ("Wow, you're huge. Are you sure it's not twins?" or "You're never going to make it to your due date," and other complimentary remarks). Such sweet memories, but not as sweet as the memories that we've made over the last 11 months.

Enough of the emotional rambling (I'll save that nonsense for the 12 month post).

Look at those long legs!

Beckett, what have you been up to?

Well, we can officially call you a "walker." You took your first real step on Valentine's Day, to Daddy, right before he left to go out of town. You really made his day. Then, you took a day off from trying and then took about 4 consecutive steps the next day. The rest is history, and you've been walking every day since. *Note: Your mother started walking at 10 months, too, so I'm sure that's where you inherited your genius genes * You've got a little toy walker that you use to sprint around the house with. It's amazing how fast you can run with that thing, especially when you push it on the kitchen tile.

A few days later, you learned to go from sitting to a standing position. You stick your bottom straight up in the air and place a hand on the floor to balance, identical to a football center's position.

Eating has become a little more of a hassle. You still love to eat and are a huge eater, but you still won't eat anything slimy. Hopefully this is just a stage that you'll grow out of.

You still love Curious George and Sid the Science Kid, but Thomas & Friends and Elmo are both growing on you. I haven't really figured out why you like Thomas because I find him quite boring, but I'm happy if you're happy. We also watch Dinosaur Train together sometimes, probably due to your mother's childhood dream of becoming a paleontologist.

You are a big talker and very expressive when you tell stories. When you get really into it, your little blonde eyebrows go up and down, depending on the seriousness of the conversation. You love to tell stories, although you don't use any recognizeable words yet, other than mama and dada. For some reason every time we go into Target, you feel the need to loudly repeat "dad...dad...dad..." the entire time. I continuously repeat "Daddy's at work, honey." Your new word is "gog" which I'm trying to make you associate with the dog. You like to play patty-cake and will even try to say it along with me.  

You have enough hair for a bad hair day now! Yay! We sent you off to Grandma's for the weekend and you came back with hair. It came in all of a sudden, but can really only be seen in the sunlight.

Bed head

You love to play with basketballs and soccer balls. You've gained many free mini basketballs from the ORU games. Sometimes I let you go pick out a toy from your toy box. Although you always have at least 4 or 5 balls in the living room to play with, out of all of the different toys in your toy box, you always choose another ball. You've learned to throw them pretty well, so you will throw them around the house and then chase them. You also have a little basketball goal that you've gotten pretty good at.


You are obsessed with the opening the kitchen cabinets and with unrolling the toilet paper roll (obviously your lazy mother has not completely baby proofed the house yet, but it's coming soon).

When we leave the house, you like to give the dog her treat and close the door to the cage. Believe it or not, you've only tried to eat the dog treat once. You've almost figured out how to open the cage, and Karsten is really hoping that you learn to do that soon.

You have 5 teeth (3 on the bottom and 2 on the top). It looks like you have two more coming in on the bottom, so hopefully those will make a painless appearance soon.

You still like to be the center of attention everywhere you go. You love to fake laugh and will get in these moods where you laugh at anything or for no reason at all. You do this mostly when you are showing off for a crowd.

Fake laugh/showing off for the camera.