11 months

Dear Ryan,

 

I can’t believe you are already 11 months old and in 30 short days you will  be one!  I don’t know why it is so bitter sweet for me.  I absolutely love watching you grow, learn and develop your mischievous personality but I miss holding my little buddy as a baby.  Lucky for me you still love to cuddle!  AND it only took 11 long months but you have finally started to sleep through the night!  At least for now anyways…

 

You are such a little man and are into absolutely everything. 

 

You recently learned how to push all the electrical buttons on the oven and are just fixated on getting to the oven and pushing every button you can.  Considering I don’t really know exactly how to work my new electrical oven yet, I can’t guarantee I am properly turning everything off each time.

 

You can stand by yourself  no problem!  I feel like it is only a matter of time before you take your first step.  I am just begging you, can you please wait until you are home so I can see it?  It would be devastating to miss it.

 

You will still eat anything and everything.  New favorites include watermelon and these wheat thin baked crackers your nana gave you.

 

You are always happy.  For how many hours (in a row) you cried the first few months of your life, you are now a really happy little guy.  Always smiling and laughing. 

 

You can now say mama, dada, emmy and baba.  Perfect!  I swear you are trying to say “bath” and “book” because everything we do both you make the sound b.

 

You are such a boy.  I could set you anywhere in the yard and you crawl right to the dirt.

 

Why must you bang on the fireplace screen constantly?  It has already fallen over on your head and knocked you down, pinning you under it yet you continue to keep doing it!

 

You think you are the coolest dude ever cruising the hood in your red car.  Just promise me that when you get older one day you won’t buy a red convertible because some people may get the wrong idea…

 

Don’t ask me why but one of your favorite places to hang out is in your sister’s closet!  You cruise in there and play with her doll house.  Weird.

 

You love your sister and so loves you soooo much.  I know the hugging and squeezing can be a little much sometimes but the biting, hitting and hair pulling has to stop.  I know you can’t yet say no or stop but soon enough you will be able to use words!

 

When I come to get you at the end of the day, you get so excited, crawl over to me with a big smile and then don’t want to leave my side the rest of the day.  Don’t ever stop doing that, I love it more than anything.  That moment is what keeps me going through the day, knowing that when I see you again you will be just as excited to see me as I am to see you.  Pretty soon you will be like your big sis and will tell me all about your day and your friends but no matter how old you are, I will always be counting down the minutes until I can pick you up.