Eleven Months Old, Little O

Oh my little baby Owen.  The countdown has begun to the big first birthday.  You are such a joy in our life.

You are a huge Daddy's boy.  Just look at this little smile on your face and the death grip on Daddy's shirt.  When Daddy comes home from work you lunge for him and cry until he will pick you up.  

One of your favorite games to play is banging the dog's food bowl.  Now that you are mobile nothing is off-limits!  When you first started crawling you wouldn't go on the tile, probably because it was too cold and hard.  Well, that only lasted a couple of days!

Your other favorite game to play is markers.  You will crawl over to the marker bin on the art shelf, pull them down and just thrown them everywhere.  Judging by the big smile on your face it's the best!

And the sleeping problems continue.  We worked really hard to get you to stop nursing in the middle of the night.  But instead of waking up to eat, you are waking up for us to rock you back to sleep.  So we are still getting up at two, four, and up for the day around 7:30.  I've worked so hard to get you to nap when we are traveling and you just refuse.  Here we are at Grandma and Bo's house.  This little mini nap didn't last longer than 20 minutes.

Bathtub brothers

You LOVE to play in water.  You will splash, try to stick your face in the water and in the pool you try to swim away from me.  You also love food.  You are eating a lot of black beans, fruit and veggie pouches, cheese, and meat.  When you really like a new food your little lip smacks are so cute.

Ava and Dawson turned your baby gate into a baby jail.  Don't worry, we did not put you into this baby jail.  Silly kids.

I'm living in denial that in less than a month we are going to have a first birthday and tenth birthday celebration.  We love you our sweet little boy.