March 6, 2018
August is 11 months old!
At 11 months, August:
Weighs/Measures: Checkup next month
Teeth: 4 (2 bottom, 2 top)
Loves:
- Peekaboo/playing under blankets
- Looking at pictures of other babies
- Pointing to everything
- Laughing at sissy
- Interactive books such as Peek-a-Who, Good Morning Goodnight, Dear Zoo, Where’s Spot, etc
- Burying his head and snuggling mama
- Drinking from his sippy cup (and stealing drinks from sissy’s)
- Crawling out of the room and waiting for someone to come “find him”
- Throwing balls
- Playing with cars in the hallway with sissy
- “Feeding” mama his food
- Touching faces
Dislikes:
- When sissy takes toys away from him
- Getting dressed
- Being tired/hungry
- Hyper/aggressive dogs (had a dog jump up & scratch him a bit so now is apprehensive of new dogs)
What’s New:
- Crawling on hands and knees
- Climbing up mama when tired, hungry, upset, or just when he wants to be held
- Immediately pointing to everything around him when you pick him up and oohing & aahing and naming everything he sees in baby gibberish
- Pulling to kneeling—almost to standing
- Understands and follows simple commands/questions such as No no, Go get the ball, throw the ball, come see mama, Where’s dog/Dada/sissy (points), etc.
- Plays with more complex toys such as the blue sit-in car, cause & effect toys like the whale where you drop the ball in his spout & press down to shoot it back out, shape sorters, etc
- Gets upset more easily when Scarlett isn’t being very nice, or when he can’t have something he wants
- His little personality is coming through more and more each day—he is very gentle and sweet but also has a silly side like Scarlett
- Is very observant of his surroundings—which goes along with his pointing & “naming” everything he sees
- Besides Dada, Hi, Ball & Bye-Bye, he is finally saying Mama and attempting to say dog, bear, baby & other words
- Eating more food
Other Activity:
- Still takes two naps a day around 10:30am & 2pm (first about 30-60 min, second 2-3 hours)
- Goes to bed around 8:15pm & wakes up around 8am, still waking 2-3x to nurse
- 3 solid meals each day
Eleven-Month Photoshoot:
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to see me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my Goomy forever
(one of August’s current nighttime lullabies)