The West Side Story: 11 Months

This past month we got to celebrate your first thanksgiving! You actually played by yourself and with other extended family members for awhile which is a huge improvement for you. You just love your Mommy too much :) We discovered you LOVE cranberry sauce too! I think you enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner very much, especially since we are working on expanding your food choices away from just fruits, veggies, and chicken.

We took you on your first “Black Friday” experience as well. Except these days Black Friday isn’t crazy like it used to be; it’s really just another busy shopping day. But we had fun. We also went and got your first Christmas tree! We went to a farm in Woodstock and went on a hayride, ate funnel cakes (you didn’t. We didn’t want you eating all that sugar), played on the swings and slide, and looked at all the trees. You loved to feel and play with all the trees! Unfortunately we didn’t get to actually cut down our Christmas tree because I didn’t like the look of the trees they grew. But they did have some imports from North Carolina so that’s what we got instead. Daddy cut off the end of the trunk so we can make it into an ornament for your first Christmas! We tried to get you to help Daddy saw, but lately you have been refusing to stand up….

But surprisingly you have been pretty good with the tree inside. Daddy got it all set up that day and I got it all decorated that night and you haven’t really bothered it. Sadly though, it fell over and broke some ornaments :( It even broke my and Daddy’s first Christmas ornament together :( But luckily I was able to recreate it on a plastic clear ornament bulb.

My silly boy this past month:

-Trenton, I think you may turn into a cheerio one day. Or a blueberry! As of right now those are your favorites. You are constantly eating cheerios and you can eat half a carton of blueberries in one sitting. You love Cheerios so much that when you cough and have a mouth full of them, you cover your mouth just to keep the Cheerios in. Silly boy!

-You love to eat cardboard. I had to move all cardboard boxes of food in the pantry to the top shelves so you don’t chew holes in them all!

-You’ve learned to roll your tongue, and think the new way to smile is to scrunch your face up. It’s pretty cute :) and you make us all laugh when you do it

-Trenton, you are so smart that you were playing with a water bottle and cap one night and the next thing we know you had put the cap on the bottle and screwed it on pretty tight! I gave birth to a genius, I know :)

-Occasionally you will call me “Mama” or Daddy “Dada” but really the only name you call consistently is “Bob” also known as Dog. Whenever Loretta or Moby come around you just yell “Bob. Bob. Bob!!!!” And Daddy says the first thing you do when you wake up is yell for Bob (Loretta). So we are thinking Bob is your first word.

-You love Loretta so much. I love it when you go up to her and give her big hugs and she lets you lay on her. She really is good with you. Except for the other day for some reason she bit your cheek :( You forgave her though and now we are watching you both more closely to make sure it doesn’t happen again. But you still love her. And love to play fetch! You’ve got quite an arm on you, little man. You love to throw Loretta’s tennis ball for her; and yourself.

-Whenever someone is on the floor, you feel like you need to come over and climb on them. I’m thinking it’s your baby version of wrestling. You’ve been watching too much WWE :)

Speaking of WWE….you really don’t like car rides at night. I’m guessing you don’t like it being dark. But I try to calm you down with the Wheels on the Bus app, singing your favorite songs, the Peekaboo Barn app, Veggietales on YouTube, Ninja Turtles on YouTube…and none of it works. But what does work? WWE Raw on YouTube. Sigh…..

Trenton, you had your first Christmas!! I have to admit though, it wasn't very fun yet. You could really care less about opening your presents after the first 5 seconds. Next year will be more fun though :) You got some good presents that you love to play with! And it was such a good feeling to have our first Christmas as a family and start making our own traditions. Uncle Kasey, Uncle Montez, and Aunt Brittany all came over for Christmas Eve and we had dinner together and opened presents from each other. Then Christmas morning you opened presents from Santa! Daddy was having so much fun writing "From Santa" on all your presents, that he forgot to putting any from us until the last one. Which was a can of Puffs. But we all know that was the biggest hit anyways! You can eat an enire can of Puffs in 2 days.

For the past month or so we have been slowly trying to get you to sleep in your crib and not nurse 324455634 times during the night. And I have to say I am finally seeing a breakthrough! The past couple nights you have slept in your bed all but a couple hours and only nursed once during the night! You still wake up 6 times throughout but I am able to get you back to sleep within minutes. When you have kids, I will make sure to invest in a really nice carrier for you and your wife. It is truly a life saver :) I've been using it for your night wakings to help you fall back to sleep quicker. One day I know you will sleep more than 2 hours at a time.....

On a happier note though.....Its almost your first New Years! But that really means nothing in the baby world because I am hoping you won't be up :) Unfortunately Daddy has to work but hopefully he will get off early so he can celebrate New Years at home!

Next up on the Agenda: Your FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Your first Falcons Game!!

You love riding on Daddy's shoulders. Even when he is wearing an ugly Christmas sweater :)

Look at you being a big boy! You love to rock now. You will even be sitting on the floor, or in someones arms, and start throwing yourself backwards to "rock"