11 Months!

Gibson turned 11 months a couple of days ago! I can't believe my baby will be 1 in less than a month!! He's a growing boy, I thought for a bit that he was spreading out, but with how much he eats, I'm pretty sure he's as chunky as ever:). The "Baby's First Christmas" shirts I've seen don't even come in a big enough size:). It does seem weird that it'll be his first Christmas seeing that he came only 5 days later. In the past month he's finally learned to pull up on things. Once he figured it out, he's been pulling up on everything and has learned how to take steps forward (holding on) to get closer and has gotten brave using only one hand. It'll be interesting to see if he walks at a similar age to Layla. They've been very different on eveything else. I know it's not always nice to compare, but it's hard not to. He doesn't say any real words yet and Layla at 10 months said some words. I just started to sign "all done" to him a couple of weeks ago and just this past week he started sometimes doing it back to me and will sometimes say "ah-dah" with it. So I guess that's sort of a word:). But he doesn't do it at every meal. He rarely says "mama" but still loves saying "dada":).

He still loves getting into trouble. He doesn't listen good to "no" when I tell him to not open my cupboard doors and he ALWAYS goes over to Elv's food dish. I don't know what it is with babies' facination with dog food! He has, however, been really good with the Christmas tree which totally surprised me. He's pulled on ornamants a few times, but I tell him "no" and he stops. Him and Layla surprisingly still play pretty nice together (of course at times they fight). They love to play in his room away from mom. Guess wanting to get away from mom starts at a young age:). He loves to copy Layla and she'll sometimes come and complain to me if he won't copy or follow her:).

I just dropped his dinner bottle last Saturday since I didn't have formula with me while we were at the mall (it had fallen out of my bag b/f we left without me noticing). I figured since he can be done with bottles at 11 1/2-12 months, I might as well continue to skip his dinner one since he did fine without it. So now he just gets a morning one with breakfast, one with lunch and a snack one when he wakes up from his afternoon nap (he still naps for about an hour in the morning and a few in the afternoon). I'm hoping he soon starts showing more interest in his sippy though, he can get milk/water out, but sometimes completely rejects it. Hopefully in the next few weeks he starts to like it better so we can quit bottles all together. He goes to bed at 7 or a little before and sleeps until 8/8:30. Layla and him often get up around the same time now. She used to always sleep longer, but often now she's up at 8/8:30 too, well, except this week b/c she hasn't been napping! :( Now she's been sleeping until 9 the past few days. He's wearing mainly 12 month clothes and although he hasn't been weighed in a bit, he feels like he weighs about the same as Layla:).

He never stays in one place for long, so I didn't even try very long to get a good pic since it's practically impossible...

As I mentioned earlier, Layla has skipped naps the ENTIRE week. For the past month or so she's been napping about every other day. When she won't nap, I put her in "rest time" in her room. I thought she was awefully quiet during rest time today so I went to check on her and was SHOCKED that she had fallen asleep. That is SO unlike her. She never sleeps anywhere besides her bed or her carseat. Maybe this means we should switch her to her big girl bed soon and maybe some days she'll actually still nap if she has the choice of playing or sleeping in her bed during rest time. And you can sort of see that her mattress is out of her bed--I took it out one day to see if she wanted to sleep on that during rest time as an option and ever since then she wants her mattress and all her stuffed animals out during rest time, good thing it's not too heavy:). But I thought it was funny that she chose the floor to fall asleep on rather than her mattress:).

Look closely to see the little girl in aqua sound asleep:)...