Luke is 11 months old!

On February 8th, Luke turned 11 months old! Now that Luke is 11 months old, he is really enjoying moving around a lot. He cruises around a lot, but is still not walking. He stands up and balances for a little while before he topples over, but he does not seem anywhere near taking an unassisted step yet. He pushes his walking toys around, but won't let go. His crawling is super fast now, so he doesn't really see a need to learn to walk!

He still has only 6 teeth (four on top, two on the bottom), but still keeps his fingers in his mouth all the time. We keep expecting a new tooth all the time, but nothing has popped up yet. He had his first ear infection during his 11th month. He was so pathetic. I stayed home with him from school, and he slept on me for 7 hours that day. Then he slept for the entire night. He just finished his 10 days of medicine, and seems to be feeling much better!

Luke loves to play with all his toys now. He stands up to play with his toys, and today I even caught him climbing on top of his riding train toy to try to stand up on top of it! He loves to throw every.single.toy out of his play area. He is a true boy in that way - he likes to destroy anything that someone (usually Katie) builds, and he loves to pick up things and throw them. We think he really enjoys the crashing sound.

Luke's favorite place to play is the bath tub. He crawls around and throws everything into and out of the tub. For a couple days, all he wanted to do in the tub was spin around in circles and he loves to splash all of the water out of the tub. He also thinks it's funny to throw himself backwards and land flat on his back in the water. He doesn't seem to be nearly as bothered by hitting his head on the hard floor of the tub as I am!

We finally bought Luke some real tennis shoes and some other dressy shoes. He seems to be doing better about keeping them on his feet, just a tiny bit maybe.

Luke really loves real people food now. If we are all eating, he will not be happy with just a jar of baby food or baby puffs. He wants exactly what we are all having. He loves bananas, chicken, grapes, green beans, spaghetti, and more. But if he could have it his way, he would never eat anything but cheese all the time for every meal.

Luke does not really have many words at this point. He says Mama, ball, baba (for any type of milk or food), Dada, and he says the same word for Katie's name all the time, but it's hard to decipher ... it's something like deh-deh. He really makes a lot of noise but doesn't really say much of anything!

11 months have flown by!

Time to start planning a first birthday party!!!