11 Months

Hello, Mr. Blue Eyes, you are 11 Months old! My big boy! You are such a sweet boy (ok, rowdy boy!!). Your favorite thing to do is make noise...lots of it. You also love to climb the stairs (no going down yet). You are such a smiley baby. All your pictures look like you are the happiest baby ever and I think you are. You have been such a good, little guy.

You have a new favorite toy that my friend, Elvia, gave you. The activity table is such a hit with you. You stand there for hours (minutes, really, but you know I exaggerate). There is one little section of it that I put some Cheerios in for you. You liked that, but as the pictures show, your favorite things was to grab handfuls of them and then throw them on the carpet for Nugget. She was going crazy trying to down all of them.

The Cheerio debacle.

This picture was set up by Dad, of course. He has big dreams for you! By the way, most days you are down to one nap (2-3 hrs). You go to sleep later (8-9pm) and usually get up between 6-7 am. I wish you slept in more, but since we have to wake you up for daycare, you are used to getting up early. Sometimes it is nice because we can get up, get dressed, go out to breakfast, hit the gorcery store, and have you down for your first nap by 9am.

The Staat guys. Grampy Staat still takes care of you every Wed. You have been keeping him busy now that you can crawl. You love to crawl from the living room to the dining room by going up the one step at their house.

You fell asleep in your high chair for the first time this month. Apparently, there is a reason that it reclines. Mom got home from getting her hair done and there you were, snoozing away.

Mr Smiles.

You love to show off your 6 teeth (soon to be 8). You are still not biting Mom!! Thank goodness. We have 1 month to go until we reach our goal of nursing for 12 months. Mom is so glad that she had all that special time with you. It is one of the best things I have done in my life (besides having you, that is!!)

You went swimming in at the Cottage this month. We had a great weekend visiting with all 4 of your grandparents. We celebrated Grampy P's birthday with a smushed cake, thanks to Nugget. It still tasted delicious.

You weren't so sure about the water, but you didn't cry. Hopefully, you will get used to it because I have a feeling that you will be spending some time in it in the future.

You are wearing size 12 month or 12-18 month clothes.

You moved up to the next daycare room this month. I felt a little sad that you weren't an infant anymore. It is good for you to see the older kids and mimic what they are doing. Every day you are Happy and Busy (so says Daycare). You also eat 100% of all the food they give you. For example on 6/28/10 you ate 100% of Kix, chicken bites, peaches, bun, cottage cheese, banana and cinnagrahams. You also drank 2-5 oz. bottles.

Daycare notes:

6/7/10 Ronan had a great day in the Wobbler Room! He loved playing with the Elmo pop-up toy and kitchen toys. (His first day in the Wobbler Room)

6/8/10 Ronan had a great day! He loved getting outside to practice our "feelings" baby signs.

6/14/10 Ronan had a great day! he enjoyed the sensory bottles and also loved the Elmo pop-up toy.

6/15/10 Ronan had a good day! He enjoyed playing with the toy cars and the foam puzzles.

6/21/10 Ronan had a great day! He enjoyed the small cars and trucks.

6/22/10 Ronan had a good day! He enjoyed playing with the tree house and listening to baby tunes.

6/25/10 Ronan had a great day! He loved playing with the drivers wheel and enjoyed hand stamping.

6/28/10 Ronan had a good day! He loved tumbling on the soft blocks today. He also enjoyed the stuffed animal alligator.