I can’t believe we will have a 1 year old in less than a month!  Seriously this has been the best, most challenging year of my entire life and it’s crazy how quickly time has gone by.

Garrett turned 11 months last Thursday and we are still enjoying every minute of every day with him.  His personality is really starting to come through, and he’s still learning so much every day.  No Dr’s appointment this month, but I can tell you first hand that he is getting heavy!  I used to feel like I could carry him around all the time, but now that he wants to be free to do what he wants when he wants (and usually squirms when you hold him) I find my arms and back tiring much more quickly now.

Here’s what he’s been up to!

• Wears mostly 12 month clothes but can wear some 9 month shorts
• Size 6 shoe & 2T/3T socks
• Has 8 teeth

• Drinks 2 bottles and 2 sippy cups of almost all cow’s milk daily (we’re working on getting rid of bottles all together)
• Eats 3 meals and a snack every day and is such an adventurous eater!

• Pulls up and cruises on anything he can find

• Loves to hold someone’s hands and walk around (though he can’t do it alone yet)
• Has so much fun climbing on Oscar and chasing Kuno
• Enjoys peek a boo and hide and seek

• His favorite toys rigt now are balls, he loves to thrown them and watch them roll

• And he still loves playing in any kind of water he can find, though he is NOT a fan of his lifejacket 😦

• Another of his new favorite games is to laugh and crawl as fast as he can towards the camera lens when Mommy is taking pictures, and is determined that one day….he’ll get it!

He’s smart, funny, is such a handsome little man, has the cutest laugh, he’s a Mama’s boy, can sometimes act like a wild little monkey, he’s a thinker and sometimes even a stinker

But he’s the cutest little stinker in the whold wide world and I am so proud to be his Mommy!