11 months

Aaron is 11 months old now. He's coming up on a year so quickly!


He hasn't begun to walk or talk yet, but he's become more proficient at crawling and cruising. He's also begun to stand by himself for a few seconds. Usually he doesn't notice he's doing it, and when we get him to try to repeat the feat, his legs get all noodley. He's also getting taller! I can tell because he likes to pull himself up to stand on basically anything he can get his hands on, and his head used to be level or below certain pieces of furniture even when he was standing, but now he's inching up above those same things.

He has four teeth now, with another two making their way through his gums right now. He's able to feed himself cheerios, and small pieces of food like broccoli, fish, or cheese.

He's biting a lot, but isn't too interested in gnawing on his teething toys. Not when there's paper, books, clothes, furniture, and people to bite instead.


He laughs a lot, and you can see the pride in his face everytime he does something new. Like when he learned how to splash. Or climb into the laundry basket. Or open kitchen cabinets. Or, like just now, when he opened the Band of Brothers DVD case by himself. I have no idea how he does some of these things. I just look over and he's already doing them. He loves cords, outlets, laptops, and everything he shouldn't be getting into.


His main "words" seem to be "ma-ma", "da-da", and "bao-bao". He also likes to babble "ba-ba-ba" and "wah-wah-wah". Today I sang "Baa Baa Black Sheep" to him while he was eating dinner, and he kept interjecting excitedly to add his own "bah bah bah"s to the song.

We've been trying to spend a little more time with his cousins so he gets social interaction with other kids. Aaron and his younger cousin love to shriek and babble at each other, and he also enjoys following his older cousins around (already). Of course, they're both running around, so Aaron's "following" mostly consists of crawling three feet in the direction they've run and then reversing direction when they run past in the opposite direction. Basically it looks like he's pacing, except he's crawling and grinning wildly.

It's all going by too fast.