11 Months

This past month felt big. Cap is a super sponge. His ability to grasp things and imitate the world around him has grown huge the last few weeks. He saying so much and signing and trying to copy what we are doing all the time. What a big difference from 1 month to the next. It is amazing what a child learns in 1 year time. Here are a few things Cap is up to these days.

- starting to sign for potty, this one is huge!!!

- hardly sits, always stands (since the beginning really)

- terrible rash AGAIN, have no idea what to do, he is never wet???

- points to the bird, monkey, and fish in our bath book

- likes to copy sounds and facial expressions

- will finally happily ride in the back of our backpack carrier

- extremely mechanical

- is not okay with us making something work, wants to know how we made it work, and then wants to try it out himself

- collects rocks

- tries to scan my debit card when we buy groceries (only time he comes out of the cart is when we are checking out because he MUST help me with the card scanner)

- we had our first time EVER wake up at 2 or 3am (don't remember exactly) and did not go back to sleep for the night experience...ouch!!!! we still have no idea why???

- 2 nights later he was up and off and on crying for 3 hours!!! Only done that one other time ever. Has slept great every since then.

- very in to toilet paper right now

- had no problem dropping the 3rd (out of 4) feedings, but now he is SUPER into nursing on the 3 feedings he does have....more into than he ever has been...this boy is so funny!

- very inconsistent length sleeper, we know exactly when he will go asleep (and he will always remind you:) but the length is a mystery. could be a 45 minute nap, could be 2 1/2 hours...and there is nothing to predict it either. every since he was sick between 9 - 10 months his night sleep has been the same. he may sleep 11 hours, he may sleep 12 1/2 hours. it doesn't matter if he goes to sleep at 6:30pm or 7:00pm, you never know when he will wake up.

- loves being outside...I have said this one before, but he goes a little crazy after being stuck inside for a few days due to the weather. We went into a store yesterday and the closer we got to the door he started screaming and fighting me because he did not want to go inside. He has never really done that, but he is justing missing being outside.

- painted his first picture

- soaking it all in!!!

Enjoy!

the boy was not happy about laying on his back!

not the usual close up but this is all he would let me get