Eleven Months!

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Eleven Months

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Ben is 11 months old! Wow! We don't go to the doctor until 12 months, so we're not sure how big he is exactly, but he's in 12 and 18 month clothes right now. Big kid!

• This boy loves to dance! He wiggles around when we sing, and especially loves a Winnie The Pooh CD he has.

• He is starting to know what things are called! It seems simple, but it's exciting to us! We ask him to go get his yellow ball, sunglasses, book, etc and off he crawls with a big smile on his face on his way to find it!

• He doesn't eat any baby food anymore - just table foods for this kid! I also taught him how to dip his food into things, so now he'll do it with anything - chicken, peas, cheerios, beans... you name it, he dips it! He even feeds himself with his spoon sometimes, and gets really excited when he gets a cheerio or bean stuck on his spoon.

• He's also really good at spilling water all over himself. Sometimes he'll take a few big sips and just spits it right back out!

• He loves playing peek-a-boo and getting chased around the house. He likes when we play with his hands and his feet, and likes to splash in the tub!

• He loves taking the books and DVDs off their shelves. He'll flip through his books and take the DVDs out of their cases... and if you try to put them away, he'll stop whatever he's doing and come back over to take them down again! He especially likes taking down his peek-a-boo book and touch and feel books.

• He's becoming a champion squirmer during diaper changes! He doesn't have time to lay around, there's stuff to climb on, and things to chew!

• He's been chewing everything, and drooling like crazy because he has two more teeth coming in on the bottom! We can see them starting to cut through, but they don't seem to be hurting him.

• He waves bye-bye and (sometimes) hi, in a whole-arm kind of way.

• He suddenly started pointing at everything! His tiny little finger looks so cute doing it!

• He gives the best hugs. Ever. He buries himself in your shoulder or stomach and squeezes with his whole body, and his kisses are just as sweet.