Eli’s Eleven Month Update

My mind is blown that this baby boy of mine will be One next month! 😱 His first year has flown by much faster than my other kiddos it seems. I feel myself growing more and more sentimental at this stage with each baby I have! 

Eli is starting to be interested in bigger toys and pulls himself up on his knees a lot and loves to climb all over things. His favorite toy is his little table toy that makes fun music and sounds. He likes to walk with help and he can stand by himself for a second or two before he falls. 

He loves to eat eat things off the floor and is definitely my little vacuum cleaner 😅 his favorite thing is to pull garbage out of our little garbage cans in each room and try and eat it’s contents 🤢 I feel like I’m following him around all day trying to keep him from choking on or eating things he shouldn’t 😅

He gives the cutest sloppy kisses (essentially just opening his mouth on my face ha ha) and has unfortunately started biting me a time or two by clamping down on my chin bone or my nose. And he holds that bite like his life depends on it so it’s basically a miracle I don’t have huge blood wounds all over! He has 7 teeth now and seems to be happiest chomping on all the things. 

He has started saying “mama,” especially when he’s sad, but I’ll take it because it’s the cutest. ❤️

He always seems to find chocolate teddy grahams and loves them! Makes a mega mess with them, but he’s obsessed.

Some days his hair seems red, sometimes blonde, but I’m thinking he’ll be more of a strawberry blonde! Rose and I both had blatantly red hair at birth and it was never hard to tell it’s color, so I’m thinking his will be a little different than ours! I’m curious to see how it looks as it grows! He’s finally getting some little wings of hair behind his ears! Ha ha 

He always goes after everything that is forbidden but has the sweetest face and most innocent expression while he does so. He especially loves to sneak over and turn our little robot vacuum on or open up the trash compartment on it. 

He loves being held and is the happiest boy when he has your attention. He loves to climb all over me and my face when I’m exercising if I am laying on my yoga mat which always makes for an interesting time. Ha ha he’s slobbered in my eye too many times to count. 🙅🏼‍♀️

He is just a really good natured, sweet baby over all, and if he’s fussy, it’s an easy fix (usually fixed with food or sleep!) 

Basically he could not have cared less about these pictures and the ones we got took some serious effort and they weren’t even good, but I guess it just accurately shows the fun and busy stage he’s at! 

Can’t believe we’ll be celebrating his first birthday next month! 😱❤️ 

Eli's Ten Month Update

My darling little boy, he is growing so quickly and changing so much!

This boy crawls everywhere now. And he is so fast. It stresses me out a little bit because he’s silent and quick and I have to make sure I’m always right by him so he doesn’t get himself into trouble! I swear, little boy babies always seem determined to die or something. He has fallen down a couple of stairs already but thankfully I was right there and caught him asap, but now I’m extra on edge about it all. Poor baby!

He has started holding up his own bottle now, huzzah! I had so hoped it would happen sooner than this but oh well, ha ha we made it through! Sometimes he’s still a little lazy but for the most part, he’s good at gobbling down his bottle on his own now!

He has 5 of the cutest little teethies ever.

He is such a good eater! He eats so many things now- pretty much everything we eat except for super hard things like nuts and no peanut butter or honey yet of course. He is game to eat pretty much anything though. I think his favorites are bread, pasta, and banana!

His naps have been tough for us the last 2 months. Some days he’ll sleep great both naps and other days he’ll do a super short nap and then a good long one, or both naps will be terrible. ha ha it’s like a guessing game, you just never know what kind of day you’ll get to have with Eli! ;) I guess I shouldn’t complain too much though because he does sleep wonderfully at night.

He is so funny in his walker, and its been so fun to see how his big brother and sister play with him when he’s in it. They love to push and scoot him around in it and then have Eli chase them. It’s adorable. I can’t wait to see how they all interact with each other as they grow. Henry is so sweet and caring with him, whereas Rose is hot or cold with him still ha ha she does NOT like him touching her or her toys, but occasionally she’ll show him some love. :) The big kids also get very stressed if they see someone holding Eli and then walking away, They are always so nervous he will be taken from them, the little cuties! Already so protective.

He says dada a ton still and growls a lot, and sometimes he’ll throw in a “maaaa” so I think mama is coming up soon!

He likes to walk around if we are holding both of his hands and he loves to stand up against furniture. He still needs a lot of supervision and falls over a lot, but he’s dying to climb onto things so we’ll see how long it takes until he does it all on his own!

He is so very snuggly, and seems to bond best with people who let him get close to their face! But it’s also a risk because he loves to stick his fingers in peoples eyes, noses and ears ha ha ha he is such a sweet giggly little bub and I love getting to hold him close.

He seems to be happiest with 100% eye contact, or being held, or eating some type of food. ha ha