Movin' and Shakin': 11 months!

It's getting harder and harder to get him to sit still for a picture these days, as evidenced by the pictures below:

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New Things With Nolan

He discovered light switches and, after only a few attempts, has figured out how to use them. Now he crawls up to the wall underneath the light, looks back at us, and reaches his arm up until we pick him up and let him play with it.

He loves to reach his arm around and pull the shower curtain just enough so you can see his cute face smiling and laughing, then he'll let it fall back down, then do it again. SO cute. If I didn't think it was weird I would get a video of it from inside the shower because it's super adorable.

His best people pleaser trick right now is to give high fives. He does it on command, every time, and people love it!

He's really good at walking along the couch and if the couch wasn't so tall he'd have no trouble climbing up onto it either, instead he just uses our leg or anything he can get his foot on to climb up. 

I said above that he always does high fives. Ok, maybe not when he's distracted :) He's got some major puppy eyes at the end of this video ♥

Sometimes he likes to walk with us holding his hands, but he gets bored (or lazy ☺) pretty quickly and sits down. I bet he could start walking anytime, but I don't think he will until he's good and ready.

Speaking of lazy, he still doesn't hold his own bottle most of the time. Sometimes if we kind of force him to, you know, be a little independent, he'll hold it for a minute, but then let go. And most of the time he spills formula everywhere when he has free reign of the bottle, but I'm thinking it's worth it to stop the enabling haha.

He still only has one little tooth. Every once in awhile he'll have a day where he's particularly whiny or he whimpers like he's in pain (so sad) so we think more teeth have to be coming, but nothing. Poor kid chews on everything.

It doesn't slow him down with eating though. His current favorite foods seem to be pears (not necessarily cut up pears, but chomping on a full pear ☺) and anything with red sauce (pizza, spaghetti, etc). 

Oh, and he's started a particularly fun phase where he spits everything out that you give him ☺

He has started shaking his head 'NO' (usually at the table when he doesn't want to eat anymore), and reaching out his arm when he wants something.

He loves drinking out of glasses or his water bottle.

But he hasn't quite figured out gravity yet.

He can fall asleep on his own most nights without a problem, but he seems to like it when we lie in bed with him and snuggle. We're happy to oblige ☺

He loves walks outside and his laugh is absolutely infectious.

He's starting the 'open every door or bag and take everything out' phase. Luckily he's not super fast at it yet, he's still figuring out how to open some of the doors, but it's coming. Yikes.

He's finally decided he wants to try crawling with his tummy up. He still mostly does his signature army crawl, but sometimes we catch him doing the other for a little bit.

And finally...this kid has some seriously amazing bed head!

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Random Pics

Getting ready for hockey!

Happy boy!

Sleeping with Cosmo 

Looking particularly handsome after church