11 Months

Uryah Bayles is 11 months!

I'm guessing he is around 30ish pounds, he wears mostly 24 month clothes and a size 5 diaper.

He decided he would become a crawler this month and naturally the first time he did it, we weren't there.

It was on a night when the kids and I were staying at my parent's.  He had crawled just a little bit before I headed out the door but apparently crawled cross the room while I was gone.  Thankfully my dad took a video of him crawling.  After that, it didn't take him long to figure out he could go all kinds of places and he is constantly crawling around the house.  So far he hasn't gotten into anything major that he shouldn't.  He tried one night to get in the dog's food bowl but we shut that down real quick and he hasn't touched it since.  And to be honest, he hasn't touched my Christmas tree either.  He has swiped at his a few times but has yet to break an ornament or knock it over so I consider it a win.

He hasn't said any new words but has found that he loves saying mama.  B tries to tell me that's not really what he is saying but I think he is just jealous that he doesn't say daddy 24/7 anymore.  :)

We are still struggling with transitioning over to real milk.  I've bought several different kinds of sippy cups but he won't even consider putting one close to his mouth.  He also doesn't like it cold so we have to put it in a bottle and warm it up.  My goal is to get him off the bottle completely by the end of the month.  We might just have to do it cold turkey which I'm pretty sure is how did it with his sister.

 He got another tooth this month and another is trying to poke out.  He is a BEAST when teething.  He becomes super whiny and isn't happy with anything you do. The other night, we laid him down at 6pm because he had whined for two solid hours and refused to eat dinner.  Refusing dinner was a huge red flag that he wasn't feeling life and he ended up sleeping a solid 12 hours!  He woke up a much happier baby.

That's about all that has happened this month.  We are gearing up for the holiday's and U's first birthday.   In four weeks and we will have a 1 year old.  The thought nearly makes me want to throw up.  Why does having children seem to speed up life?  At least I can say we are enjoying every minute of it.