Austin's 11 Month Update

My baby is 11 months old. He is almost not a baby anymore! Toddlerhood will soon be upon us. Oh how I love my boy. He is the light of my life.

What to say... what to say...

Let's see.

At 11 months Austin definitely has stranger anxiety. Anytime he is passed off to someone he doesn't know he screams his head off. Poor guy. I have to admit that it does make me feel just a *little* bit awesome inside knowing that he loves me and trusts me more than anyone else in the world. The only place I can leave him without him crying is the YMCA. He has been going there several times a week since he was 3 months old and is pretty familiar with the facility and the ladies who watch the children. He loves them.

At 11 months Austin is showing affinity for two blankets. They are the first items he has shown any real attachment to. He loves the football blanket I made for him. I love that that is one of his favorites :) And he loves this fuzzy jungle blanket that I got from someone... wish I could remember who!

His favorite book is "Moo, Baa, La La La" by Sandra Boynton. He just sits there and lets me read it to him over and over without getting bored or trying to turn the pages or reaching for another book. It is so cute.

At 11 months Austin can finally crawl. He has been army crawling for months. And he was so darn good at it that he just didn't feel the need to crawl for real on his hands and knees. He actually started pulling himself up onto furniture and our legs and the stairs before he started crawling for real. Speaking of which, he is a champ at that. It started around 10 months. He pulls himself up on to everything!

His favorite item to pull himself up next to is the piano. He can finally reach the keys :) He loves to pull himself up and reach as high as he can and push the keys down. He is a little musician already. I love it.

Austin loves to each cheese puffs. They are definitely his favorite snack. His favorite food is still yogurt. That kid loves yogurt. Some of the new foods he has had lately that he loves include strawberries and waffles. He still has only two teeth so solid foods are still a challenge, but he definitely makes the best of the teeth he has and just gums everything else to death.

Austin still has a very contagious laugh and a very contagious smile. I live for the smiles he gives. He is such a happy boy.

He is a very, very curious boy and loves to just crawl around and get his little hands into everything. He  still loves to bang toys together and on the ground. One thing he has developed and interest in recently is button pushing. He LOVES to push any buttons he can find: computer keys, tv buttons, remotes. You name it-- as long as it has buttons he loves to push them!

Austin is a back archer. Yep. A back. Archer. If that kid doesn't want to be put down/into his carseat/into his crib he arches his back and just lets you have an earful. I just have to tickle his belly and he gives in although the crying usually doesn't stop :)

Oh how I love my boy. I couldn't imagine my life without him. He is such a little light in this house. I still look in on him every single night before I go to bed just to make sure he is real and that my life is real and that I am really his mom. It is the best job in the world.