11 Months!

Your birthday is on the horizon now.  Approaching faster and faster.  I'm okay now, but in a few weeks I'm not sure I will be able to say the same.  You are turning into such an incredible little man.  You make me prouder and prouder every day.  I wish I had the words to describe the unbelievable joy you give me each and every day.  There are still difficult moments no doubt, but the joy certainly overwhelms those moments.

You are such a laid back little guy.  Most days you just roll with the punches.  You have little to no protest now when its nap time (thank goodness) or when we are in the car.  You know the sound of the bath tub at night and know exactly what it means.  You love story time before bed or any time for that matter.  And you love bed time.  You are such a ham.  You love to laugh and giggle.  Every time you giggle my heart just swells.  It's the sound that makes me the happiest person in the world.  You are such a people watcher.  People watching entertains you to no end most places we go.  You are also a huge flirt.  You flirt with the grocery checker, the grocery bagger, and the people at the table next to us a lunch or dinner.  You have tons of energy and like to express it physically and verbally.  You love to talk and babble to yourself.  If I had one wish in the world it would be to know exactly what you were saying.  You are still very curious.  You love to pick stuff up off the floor, examine it very closely and then reach up to hand it to me, along with a verbal, "uh".  Probably your most favorite thing to do is to take a non toy, usually the remote, and crawl around with it in one hand into every room and place it on everything in that room to see what happens.  Hugely entertaining for you.  You still love to open any door, any drawer, any cabinet or any box.  You are getting taller so it's becoming very easy for you to reach up and pull things out of drawers now.  You are not walking but you will take three or four steps between objects or to us.  You love your push toys, falling into soft things, like the bean bag, your lion full of balls, or your chair.  And you have a love for tunneling under something or someone.

You still have a very hardy appetite.  You will give most foods a chance and you seem to like or tolerate most foods we give you.  But there is the occasional protest, which is to be expected.  You are almost weaned.  You did most of it on your own.  Your patience for nursing was growing shorter and shorter.  and it was getting harder and harder to get you to nurse an appropriate amount of time.   I still nurse you in the morning but you seem to have more patience for a bottle.  You are 30 inches tall and weigh almost 22 pounds.  You are in a size 4 diaper and in 12 month clothes.  For a long guy you have short legs,  so your pants tend to be smaller in size.  But its almost summer now, so I can so so long to pants for a while.  You are sleeping a little later now (yay!), until 7:15ish.   In fact I could be getting up before you to get things done, but I'm enjoying my sleep for now.  You have four teeth now!  Hooray!  You have your bottom two and top two.  And I think two more top teeth are on their way.

We love you so much Wey Wey!!!

You are still so serious sometimes.  

 Helping Mommy blow out her birthday candles

Weyland and his buddy Hudson

 I wasn't lying when I said every drawer.  The night stand on the opposite side looks the exact same.

 Morning snuggles with my little man.  I will love these snuggles as long as they last

Happy Easter!

Easter this year was fun filled from start to finish.  You started the morning like any other morning, except for one small difference.  You projectile vomited your entire breakfast and then some all morning.  We took a quick 3 hour trip to the hospital, (because we are new parents and freak out over everything) and got you checked out.  You were fine.  A little bug must have gotten you.  Back at the house we resumed our Easter activities.  A brunch at the officer's club after a morning Easter egg hunt all had to be reworked.  We got some food in you and decided to do an afternoon Easter egg hunt instead.  You loved it.  I put cheerios and puffs in the eggs.  You had so much fun shaking the eggs and then discovering there was a yummy snack inside.  You didn't quite have the attention span or the ability to follow my direction to get all the eggs but we got a good amount of them.  Your favorite part was taking eggs in and out of your easter basket.  And then of course dumping the easter basket full of eggs over.  After our quick easter egg hunt we went outside for a little Easter photo shoot.  I put David in charge of picture taking and I must say he got quite a few great shots of you.  Thanks honey!!  After our photo shoot we headed inside and had a yummy Easter dinner.  A good friend of ours, Josh Kopsie, came over and shared Easter dinner with us.  Celebrating these holidays away from home is hard but having good friends close by makes it much easier!

Happy Easter!!

Ten Months!

Weyland you are ten months old.  Only two more months and you won't be my little baby any more :(. Although I must admit that you are changing and growing so much that I already feel your baby essence leaving you.  You are still a crawler, but you only crawl until you get to something you can pull up on and walk around. You have learned to push your push toys around and it is SO fun to watch you push them around.  You are so proud of yourself.  You always look back at me and give me a huge grin.  It's like you are saying, "Look mom, I'm doing it!".  A few times you have let of whatever you are holding on to and balanced all on your own.  I'm afraid you might be walking soon, but who knows.  Let's hope you take your time figuring it out. :)  You recently started waving, which is pretty darn cute.  You have started reaching and saying "oh" to anything that you discover or see or want me to know you see.  You have also started to mimic us a little.  You try your best to say "Uh-oh"  when I say it to you.  When the phone rings or a timer goes off, you look at me and say "Oh".  Man you love it when the phone rings, especially when it's daddy.  I put him on speaker and when you hear his voice you get a huge grin on your face and start to talk to him.  It's so cute!  On the other hand, when I am on the phone you also do your best to jerk it away so you can have it for yourself.  It becomes way more interesting when a voice comes out of it, so you just can't resist.  I'm amazed at how quickly you learn.  You are a smart little guy.  When you push your push toy into a wall or object you patiently figure out how to maneuver it to keep on moving.  We have had a few play dates and after each one you pick something up from watching your new friend Hudson (who is a year old).  More things you love, the vacuum cleaner, pulling everything out of anything,  playing in your chair, getting into the fridge, the toilet, the trash, unplugging anything that you can unplug, opening every drawer you can reach,  basically getting into everything.

You still eat like a horse.  It's amazing the amount of food you can consume sometimes.  You can be picky at times, but for the most part you will eat pretty much anything.  Veggies are still tricky.  You are still breastfeeding, but you are getting extremely difficult to nurse in the evening.  Most nights I have to give you a bottle, so weaning you will probably be starting soon.  You are sleeping a little later now (yay!).  Most mornings you wake up anywhere between 6:30 and 6:45.  You still take 2 naps, although your morning nap has become very short, putting a kink in my morning routine.  You weigh close to 21 lbs and you are 29 inches tall.  You are still long and lean, but you are developing a little pot belly, that I LOVE!  You still only have 2 teeth, but I'm 90% sure that 2 more are on their way.  Hang on little man, you will have more than 2 teeth soon!  You now successfully drink from a sippy cup.  You also are in a phase where you want anything I have.  It's a little annoying, but it has let me explore foods that I didn't know you would ever eat, like hummus and greek yogurt.

You are a happy, curious, explorative, smart, tenacious, spirited little man.  I love seeing your little personality bloom and watching you learn and grow.  I love you so so much!!

Avocado beard.  haha

He loves playing in his chair!

Tissues!

Attack!

Got a chance to visit with all my loves in FW!