Eleven Months Already?

The countdown is officially on until Brooks' first birthday!  Here are his 11 month pics.  It was increasingly hard to get him to sit still for pictures, all he wanted to do was play with the elephant!

 

 

As you can imagine, Brooks is into everything now that he is walking.  I noticed that as his walking has gotten better, all of his motor coordination seems to be improving.  He started getting the hang of bending his hand to wave this week.  He is known as the "salsa dancer" at school because he walks with his right arm in the air and his left arm in front of him.  Each step he takes looks like a little dance!

Brooks has both his bottom front teeth, and now the top two have broken through!  He has been a champ with teething so far!!

Brooks got his tubes on Thursday and so far, so good (knock on wood).  He did very well and made all the nurses fall in love with him (like father, like son).  It may be the placebo effect for me, but I think his verbal skills have improved since he got his tubes.  The surgeon did say there was a lot of fluid behind his ear drum.

 

My very happy boy!!  It's 7:30AM, he's not had anything to eat or drink since the night before, he's taking a breathing treatment, about to have surgery- and STILL smiling!

We put up the Christmas tree yesterday and it was one of my favorite moments to watch him revel in its glory.  He laughed at it, he stared at it, and touched it.  That was a very fun mommy moment for me.  We are going to let him get all of his touching out of the way before we put on the ornaments.  Don't worry- everyone has warned me to put the nice ornaments up high!  I can't wait to share pictures from this Christmas!

Since he was born right before Christmas last year, this Thanksgiving will be his last "first" holiday (if that makes sense).  I can't believe we have already been through a whole year of "firsts."  I am busy planning the celebration of his whole first year- think sock monkeys!



Just a few best friends/ college roommates with all their baby boys!

Just sporting my Chuck T's while I support the Dawgs!


  
I am enjoying my week off with him and already looking forward to the two weeks off at Christmas.  He continues to be such a joy in my life and amazes me everyday.  Thank you Lord for a wonderful blessing!