Conor Christopher: Eleven Months

Conor by month 1 // 2 // 3 // 4  // 5  // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9 // 10

Growing // Around 11 months you weighed 16 lbs 4 oz (1st percentile)!  You had multiple appointments this month, and this was the first month your weight made it's mark on the charts, putting you in the 1st percentile! That felt like a huge accomplishment. 

Eating + Sleeping // You are eating between 6-8 oz at each feed and you are eating a combination of breastmilk and formula about 5/6 times a day. You are eating so well these days, and I love snuggling up with you in the rocking chair. And you are eating all sorts of solid foods, preferring actual food, so more baby led weaning than I've ever done with any of my other kids. You're not really feeding yourself and picking things up from your tray, but you open your mouth like a little birdie when food gets close and if the food item is big enough you're holding it in your hand. You love eggs and bread and broccoli and potatoes. You really love anything we give you! You love cereal and crackers!

You are such a good sleeper. And we are letting you sleep through the night now. I was waking you up to feed before I went to bed to get some extra ounces in you and some days you'd take it willingly and other days you wouldn't, so I'd just put you back in your bed. But we stopped giving you your reflux meds this month and you threw up three nights in a row when I'd wake you up around 10/11 pm to eat, and all of this required an entire outfit change and bedding change, so we decided that maybe it was time to just let you sleep!

You're doing just two naps a day, sometimes three, but more likely just two for a total of 2-3 hours, with an early bedtime at like 6:30 and you're waking up around 6:30. And you're napping in your rock n play and then on your wedge at night. 

And in the morning when I grab you from your bed, you're the happiest guy, you just smile at me and babble and it's the most beautiful thing. 

Wearing // You are wearing a combination of 6 and 9 month pants and onesies, most of your pajamas are 9 months and I've been putting you in some 12 month pajamas. I've started to move your 6 month clothes out of your container and moving your 9 month things in. Size 2/3 diapers and your cloth diapers. 

Loving // You really love to eat and you love just observing everything!

Loathing // Same thing as every month - your brothers are really rough with you and take your toys from you! I'll put you down somewhere and I'll come back into the room and they've moved you.

Nicknames // Connie, Connie bears

Doing // You are waving! And you are still sitting up in your bumbo and other items. You aren't a huge fan of staying on your tummy these days! So I have to give you things to engage you so that you'll stay in position rather than just rolling over straight away.

Doctors Appointments // 1 visit to pulmonology and nutrition at Childrens, 1 WIC appointment, 1 occupational therapy appointment, 1 visit to North Seattle Pediatrics for RSV shot, 1 visit to Northwest Eye Surgeons, 1 visit to infant development clinic at UW.

Milestones // first time in a highchair at a restaurant, first passport photo.

Jack by month 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9 // 10 // 11 // 12
Ryan by month 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9 // 10 // 11 //12 

Ryan Alexander: Eleven Months

 Ryan by month 1 // 2 // 3 // 4 // 5 // 6 // 7 // 8 // 9 // 10 

Growing // You are getting so big it's wild! You LOVE to eat, and I haven't weighed you lately, but I wouldn't be surprised if you weighed like 24/25 lbs at your one year check up. People are always commenting on how big you are, when in reality, I think you are just average, if not maybe smaller than the average 11 month old?

Eating + Sleeping // You are breastfeeding about 4/5 times a day and you are eating alot of solids throughout the day. And because of all the food, you have a hard time finishing your bottles on the days you're home with dad. So I've been pumping less at work. I think the weaning process has begun. Strange to think our breastfeeding journey is slowly coming to an end. You are doing 2 naps most days, sometimes 3, but that just depends on how bad you slept the night before! You still go to sleep so easily on your own, but you just wake up. However, all I have to do is put your pacifier back in your mouth, most nights, some nights that isn't enough, and I end up feeding you, but those nights are becoming less and less common. Honestly though, you are a much better sleeper than your brother these days. You go to bed around 6 and wake up between 6-7.

You LOVE rice cakes, bananas, black beans, sweet potatoes, etc.

Wearing // You are wearing mostly 12 month stuff, but some of your clothes are 18 months and you are wearing size 4 diapers still.

Loving // You LOVED the water in Hawaii. You loved the beach and drinking the pool and ocean water. you'd dip your little head down into the water so fast before we could get you to sit upright again! You love playing with your brother. Jack is just so sweet with you - sharing his snacks and his toys and making you laugh. He wakes up in the morning and says I wanna play with ry guy. It's just the sweetest thing. You love to just watch your brother and the crazy things he does makes you laugh!

Loathing // Still not a huge fan of staying up past your bedtime! And your bedtime these days is more like 6 pm. It's crazy how early you go to bed.

Doing // You are crawling! You are moving everywhere now. You are such a wiggle worm. It's so hard to get you to stay still.You can pretty much do everything, but you just aren't pulling up to stand. You are so close though!

Milestones // First plane ride! You did amazing. I was so proud. First trip to Hawaii, and most definitely not your last. The four of us shared a room, and you guys slept incredible. You were going to bed at like 5 PM. You now have 7 teeth! You celebrated your first Halloween and you were a little tiger. And we stayed out WAY past your bedtime, but you just fell asleep in the carrier.