11 months, how can that be?

Our family at the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in
Detroit. Last year, I was 36 weeks pregnant with Calan. 

Well here is Calan's 11 month update. I swear I do not know how a whole month can pass so quickly. Just two days ago someone asked me how old Calan was and as I was saying 10 months, I realized that he was just two days away from bing 11 months.

Calan seems to have had some kind of growth spurt this month. He has gotten so tall. He really is starting to look less like my little  baby, but he is still my little guy. When we are out and about, he just seems so big sitting in the stroller or shopping cart. It amazes me.

He continues to be a very social little guy. It cracks me up every time someone tells me that they made him smile or that they got a smile out of him. It is probably the easiest thing to do. He is pretty good with other people and really does not fuss when passed around to different people. He definitely is not shy.

Calan's first year as a Wilson's Boobies. 

Calan officially is a "real" crawler now. He finally lifted himself up out of his army crawl about 2 weeks ago. Not sure how it finally clicked, but he is on all fours and moving quickly. He is moving around furniture pretty well and will transfer from on piece of furniture to another close by. A few times he has let go and stood for a second, but he is no where close to free walking soon. I am pretty sure that it will be toward the end of next month or beginning of the next. I just hope that he is pretty stable walking by the time his sister gets here.

This past month, we kind of took a step back on food. Calan was having a hard time eating green vegetables in bite-size pieces, so we are still mashing those up. However, he is eating a lot of the same foods Bob and I eat. I rarely am preparing his food in advance, it is to the point that I just pick something out of the fridge and serve it up. So we are getting closer to table food from baby food.

We are still working on getting use to a sippy cup. I am not great at offering it often, so this month we will be working on that so by the time he is one, I can start transitioning off on his bottles and on to cups.

This past month, Calan's first molars started to come in. They are coming in very slowly and his gums are pretty swollen most of the time. We have been dealing with off and on running nose and off and on drooling. i am praying that they come through soon. It is such a slow process. It seems so different from his front teeth.

Calan has been sleeping pretty decently except that he is playing in his crib more and more. It is hard to get him to settle down for a nap. He loves standing up and then diving head first into his crib. He just giggles and plays for what seems like forever. There have been times that it has taken him an hour of playing to finally fall asleep. As his mom, this annoys me, but I keep reminding myself that I can't make him sleep. I do all that I can and he has to take it from there. He hasn't been crabby or anything, so I am not worrying about it too much. I have just extended his wake time from 2 hours to more like 2.5 hours and that has helped a bit.

So that is where he is at. A pretty happy guy with a full world to explore. He just can't get enough of life and that is so exciting to see as his mother. Can't believe that next month will be his 1-year summary!