Julian Ridley: Month 11
I should be used to this by now, right? I mean for the past 11 months you've been growing up no matter how hard I've tried to stop you. But 11 months! E-L-E-V-E-N! Do you know what comes after 11? Oh that's right, you don't. But I'll tell you, 12 comes next! That's ONE FULL YEAR. Let's not get ahead of ourselves though just yet as you are still hanging on to infancy by a thread. And I'm going to milk it for all it's worth.
I guess I should break the news to you now though, once you hit your first birthday we won't be doing these newsletters anymore. I know, I know. We're going to be too busy living that we won't be able to stop and write everything down. Plus you change so much on a daily basis, these things will end up being miles long. I figured I should tell you now because next month you are going to be overwhelmed with all the changes turning 1 brings like your new list of chores, having to find a job, sleeping through the night and in general taking care of yourself. Uh, finnnne, I guess we can push those things off until you are two. Except the sleeping, that's in full effect on 7.11.
Let's see what have you done the past month? What haven't you done might be an easier way to ask that. You still have the two slowest teeth coming in from last month. You've had a little more variety in the food area but you aren't too crazy about it. You won't hesitate to eat a dead bug or cigarette butts but how dare I expect you to try some hummus. Which by the way you like depending on your mood. You love chicken and beef, not big on fruit, some vegetables are OK but until you stop nursing every 3.5 seconds you don't seem to have a desire to eat much food that can actually be served on a plate.
You totally impressed us with your ability to fly down stairs in a belly flop manner then impressed us even more when you learned how to go down backwards but now you are trying to go down forward standing up! You definitely can't accomplish this without assistance plus I think walking might have to come first. You've been making great progress in that area as well. Before you would take a couple steps but it was more like a dive. Now you are attempting to walk all the time and you will take a couple steps, stop to regain your balance and start again. You've gotten pretty far this way! Crawling is still your mode of choice and who can blame you with your ability to crawl faster than a jaguar.
You are such a little mountain climber too. You climb on everything and you manage to get onto things we've never thought were possible. You can actually climb out of our bathtub and this isn't a standard tub, this is one of those big, deep Jacuzzi tubs. How do you do this? Nothing is safe from your reach and determination anymore. You are such a busy little boy. I thought a lot of what you do was normal 11 month old behavior until I'm around other babies your age and I realize I'M THE ONLY MOM RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE chasing after you. Did I mention I'm tired? What happened to the mellow little boy in the womb who was too laid back to give me all those kicks every expecting mother wants? Well you kick plenty now, and hit and pull and throw.
You are also showing empathy these days. You bit your Dad and when he over exaggeratedly yelled out in pain you started to cry. What I can't figure out is when you bit me and I sincerely yelled out in pain you scrunched up your nose, furrowed your brows and blew a raspberry at me as if to say "ha, I spit on you, you evil lady!"
You are always full of surprises. Just the other day I heard you wake up from your nap on the monitor and I immediately went up to get you. By the time I got there, you had already gotten out of bed yourself and got over to the bedroom door and were about to open it yourself. I was not expecting to almost knock you down when I opened the door, you made me jump out of my skin! I see more babyproofing is in store. Not sure why we bother because you have already broken off a few of them. Plus, broke off our toilet paper holder from the wall and have caused damage to several other things. We don't clean up around here much these days, I'm not sure it would make a difference!
You love to take things down and out now. You will stand at any shelf, drawer or toy box and just pull everything out as fast as you can. You don't stop to play with anything, you just want to take it out. Like our shoes in the bedroom closet. They used to be lined up neatly but now they are in one big heap on the floor. You stood there and within 5 minutes every single shoe was out of the closet and you sat in the middle of the big pile looking victorious. I started to put them back and you stood up, huffed, took down the few I managed to put back, huffed again and sat back down in your pile. I tried it again and every time you would get annoyed, stop what you were doing to take them down again. Which is why they are still in one big pile on the floor. At least you are starting to put things back. Your toy basket, which has been downgraded from a toy box - we're doing this whole few select toy rotation - you will empty it and sit there and put your toys back in. You always have to have two of something though. You know how to find pairs, that's for sure. You will only pick two of the same shoes, two of the same blocks, two of the same dog bones, it's ridiculously cute.
You love to point too. You also sound like you are advancing in your speaking ability. No more mama, dada, you still do those but you now have all kinds of other sounds. You'll come up to us and begin to ramble, complete with pointing, hand gestures and facial expressions. You are definitely trying to tell us something (you seem to be telling on the dogs for something, I'm sure they stole your dog bone again) we just don't know what you are saying yet. But you do say dog now! That's exciting. We were having one of our picnics and anytime a dog would walk by you would point and say "dah!" It's not exact but we'll give it to you. I think that is your first official word aside from mama and dada.
You show your frustration to though. If you can't reach something or get stuck under something because you didn't realize you grew a million inches and can no longer cruise under the table you will get so upset.
It's been harder and harder to get pictures of you and write about all your little achievements these days. You are always on the go, we can't possibly capture that with the camera especially when we are running after you and you accomplish so much every day we can't keep up.
Oh Julian you are such an awesome little boy. I looked back just now and you are crawling towards me, shaking your head from side to side like you do now so vigorously you almost fall over as you laugh manically. How did we ever smile before you were here?
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I guess I should break the news to you now though, once you hit your first birthday we won't be doing these newsletters anymore. I know, I know. We're going to be too busy living that we won't be able to stop and write everything down. Plus you change so much on a daily basis, these things will end up being miles long. I figured I should tell you now because next month you are going to be overwhelmed with all the changes turning 1 brings like your new list of chores, having to find a job, sleeping through the night and in general taking care of yourself. Uh, finnnne, I guess we can push those things off until you are two. Except the sleeping, that's in full effect on 7.11.
Let's see what have you done the past month? What haven't you done might be an easier way to ask that. You still have the two slowest teeth coming in from last month. You've had a little more variety in the food area but you aren't too crazy about it. You won't hesitate to eat a dead bug or cigarette butts but how dare I expect you to try some hummus. Which by the way you like depending on your mood. You love chicken and beef, not big on fruit, some vegetables are OK but until you stop nursing every 3.5 seconds you don't seem to have a desire to eat much food that can actually be served on a plate.
You totally impressed us with your ability to fly down stairs in a belly flop manner then impressed us even more when you learned how to go down backwards but now you are trying to go down forward standing up! You definitely can't accomplish this without assistance plus I think walking might have to come first. You've been making great progress in that area as well. Before you would take a couple steps but it was more like a dive. Now you are attempting to walk all the time and you will take a couple steps, stop to regain your balance and start again. You've gotten pretty far this way! Crawling is still your mode of choice and who can blame you with your ability to crawl faster than a jaguar.
You are such a little mountain climber too. You climb on everything and you manage to get onto things we've never thought were possible. You can actually climb out of our bathtub and this isn't a standard tub, this is one of those big, deep Jacuzzi tubs. How do you do this? Nothing is safe from your reach and determination anymore. You are such a busy little boy. I thought a lot of what you do was normal 11 month old behavior until I'm around other babies your age and I realize I'M THE ONLY MOM RUNNING ALL OVER THE PLACE chasing after you. Did I mention I'm tired? What happened to the mellow little boy in the womb who was too laid back to give me all those kicks every expecting mother wants? Well you kick plenty now, and hit and pull and throw.
You are also showing empathy these days. You bit your Dad and when he over exaggeratedly yelled out in pain you started to cry. What I can't figure out is when you bit me and I sincerely yelled out in pain you scrunched up your nose, furrowed your brows and blew a raspberry at me as if to say "ha, I spit on you, you evil lady!"
You are always full of surprises. Just the other day I heard you wake up from your nap on the monitor and I immediately went up to get you. By the time I got there, you had already gotten out of bed yourself and got over to the bedroom door and were about to open it yourself. I was not expecting to almost knock you down when I opened the door, you made me jump out of my skin! I see more babyproofing is in store. Not sure why we bother because you have already broken off a few of them. Plus, broke off our toilet paper holder from the wall and have caused damage to several other things. We don't clean up around here much these days, I'm not sure it would make a difference!
You love to take things down and out now. You will stand at any shelf, drawer or toy box and just pull everything out as fast as you can. You don't stop to play with anything, you just want to take it out. Like our shoes in the bedroom closet. They used to be lined up neatly but now they are in one big heap on the floor. You stood there and within 5 minutes every single shoe was out of the closet and you sat in the middle of the big pile looking victorious. I started to put them back and you stood up, huffed, took down the few I managed to put back, huffed again and sat back down in your pile. I tried it again and every time you would get annoyed, stop what you were doing to take them down again. Which is why they are still in one big pile on the floor. At least you are starting to put things back. Your toy basket, which has been downgraded from a toy box - we're doing this whole few select toy rotation - you will empty it and sit there and put your toys back in. You always have to have two of something though. You know how to find pairs, that's for sure. You will only pick two of the same shoes, two of the same blocks, two of the same dog bones, it's ridiculously cute.
You love to point too. You also sound like you are advancing in your speaking ability. No more mama, dada, you still do those but you now have all kinds of other sounds. You'll come up to us and begin to ramble, complete with pointing, hand gestures and facial expressions. You are definitely trying to tell us something (you seem to be telling on the dogs for something, I'm sure they stole your dog bone again) we just don't know what you are saying yet. But you do say dog now! That's exciting. We were having one of our picnics and anytime a dog would walk by you would point and say "dah!" It's not exact but we'll give it to you. I think that is your first official word aside from mama and dada.
You show your frustration to though. If you can't reach something or get stuck under something because you didn't realize you grew a million inches and can no longer cruise under the table you will get so upset.
It's been harder and harder to get pictures of you and write about all your little achievements these days. You are always on the go, we can't possibly capture that with the camera especially when we are running after you and you accomplish so much every day we can't keep up.
Oh Julian you are such an awesome little boy. I looked back just now and you are crawling towards me, shaking your head from side to side like you do now so vigorously you almost fall over as you laugh manically. How did we ever smile before you were here?
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