11 Months

Maxim sweet boy, you are 11 months. In just one month, we will be celebrating your birth. How fast this year has gone.

You are eating all table food now and are not happy with maman feeding you unless its yogurt or applesauce. Mr. Independent you want to feed yourself and you are quite good at it. You love garlic olive oil chicken, pasta, english muffins, toast, asparagus, green beans, and raspberries. Your great grandma's also helped you discover toast with jam this week so now Maman will have to start buying jam. Basically you eat anything we put in front of you except sweet potato and avocado. You also like some snack foods like yogurt covered bites, banana puffs and crackers. Despite your grandma's insistence, you havent had any sugar like ice cream (poor tortured boy, lol) but on your first birthday, you'll get to have cake and ice cream. Maman thinks you need to learn to eat better than she does so no sugar until your first birthday and then after, only a little bit here and there for special occassions.

You are starting to move more and explore your world which means you can turn full circles if your on your butt and rotate around on your belly. You are also stretching and reaching more which lands you on your belly at times. You love to stand and bounce.

You are quite the chatterbox. You make noise all day long and you can say mama and dada very clearly. You make this long loud high pitched Oooooo sound when you are excited which makes us laugh. You also know how to roll a ball to Maman and you understand what shut off the light means. You cant quite get the little lever pushed down yet but soon.

You are making your preferences known and you are very good at letting us know when you are mad. I see some head butting and typical toddler behavior in our future. You are very much like your mother in many ways but you have some of your papa's qualities too. Most of the time, you are such a happy easy going baby and a joy. Always lots of smiles for us every day.

We love you sweet baby more and more every day!!