It's time for another monthly update, and of course, I'm a couple weeks late with it! Gavin is now eleven months old! And with being a month older has come a few changes...as always!
Gavin added another tooth - a bottom one - at the beginning of July. That brought his tooth count up to seven! Crawling has become something that his is very good at. He is fast...and he is sneaky. Someone has to be watching him at all times or he's bound to disappear. We've had to start closing all of the bedroom doors, gate off the laundry room, and use our dinning room chairs to keep him away from the cats' food and water bowls. Gavin is also an expert at pulling himself up to a standing position which means he can now reach what used to be out of reach...ugh! Once up on his two feet he can cruise a step or two, but is very wobbly. Considering how fast he took to crawling, I don't think it will be long before he masters cruising...
On the menu...
Gavin has given up all forms of baby food. Sometimes he will eat one of those Gerber Graduate meals, but he doesn't love them. He prefers table food...and that table food better be the same thing everyone else has on his or her plate or there will be screaming. See, when it comes to eating at the table Gavin has decided he is a big boy and is fighting to be treated as such! His favorite food group is probably meat...right now it is breakfast sausage specifically, but chicken is also a favorite. He's also a big fan of watermelon, peaches, pears, corn, peas, and carrots. Oh, and cake...he really, really likes cake!
He still drinks 12-16 ounces of formula a day. Sometimes he has breast milk (if I remember to thaw it out) mixed in with his formula. He's starting to protest the bottle - almost like he doesn't like the formula anymore - so we'll probably be introducing some whole milk soon. He's drinking most of his fluids with meals now. And, even better, he's becoming a sippy cup champion! I can't wait to say good-bye to bottles and liners and nipples and wrings!
Bed time...
Gavin is still an excellent sleeper. In fact, if you consider the fact that he has been sleeping past six a.m. he's an even better sleeper than he was last month! He still takes to naps a day - a morning and afternoon - but he's becoming more and more resistant to the morning nap and that morning nap is getting shorter and shorter. I'm guessing with in the next month or two he will completely quit taking that nap. I'm not to worried about this as he sleeps for about two hours every afternoon and sleeps a good eleven hours every night. He still insists on falling asleep using a pacifier, but he usually spits it out shortly after falling asleep and is fine after that.
A growing personality...
Remember those temper tantrums that Gavin started throwing occasionally last month? This month they went from occasional to a regular occurrence! Gavin is opinionated, and when he isn't happy with something he is more than capable of letting everyone know! Still though, despite the fits he is still generally calm and easy going.
Since learning to crawl and gaining the confidence to crawl anywhere and everywhere, Gavin has been able to enter a whole new level of play. Good-bye baby toys; hello big brother toys! Cars and action figures are a favorite. As are Logans toy guitars, Thomas trains, and plastic kitchen food and utensils. There are a few toddler toys Gavin loves still like his Croc Blocks, piano, and Thomas telephone.
So many changes in just a few weeks...It would be hard to believe if I hadn't watched it happen right in front of me! So here we are...Gavin is eleven months old. In just a few short weeks we'll be celebrating his first birthday; the end of his first year with us and the beginning of his second!
