11 months old

Cooper, its hard for me to even begin to believe that its almost been a year since the day you came into my world. I'm happy and slightly sad at the same time at how fast this time is flying by. But I want you to know that I could not love you more. I truly love you more each day, and its hard to believe that my love could grow more. But it does. Every time I think of you, look at you, hug you, smile at you, and smell your sweet baby smell. You are growing by leaps and bounds this past month and I can't even imagine the things you might be doing in another month by your first birthday.
Here are some of your new talents :)
You are playing with other kids. Actually interacting and you love to play chase. You wait for a kid to smile at you and you smile this super mischievous smile back at them and run the opposite direction in hopes that they will chase you.

You say hi in the most adorable high pitch voice I've ever heard. You wave a big open hand wave.

You say Dada all the time. Its your favorite word EVER to say.

Just this morning you were sitting next to me on the couch. We both just woke up. I was eating a poptart and you wanted some. I let you have a corner. You ate it up. You sat patiently staring at me, so I asked you if you wanted more and no lie you looked right at me and in a high pitched sweet voice you said "YAH". You did this about 3-4 more times after that and I am positive you were truly saying yah to my question.

You smile a radiant beaming blue eyed smile at me constantly melting my heart.

You love to eat grown up food.

You have 2 teeth on the bottom and you just popped two more out on top. I see another just skimming the gums on top. I bet in the next few days you will then have 5 teeth. They all came within your 10th to 11th month. But your handling them coming in extremely well.

Your a scrappy little wobbly walking goofy funny happy baby boy. You practically run to get where you want to go now. When you walk you get all sideways and end up falling over half the time like a drunken old guy. But its funny because you just get back up right where you fell and power forward full speed ahead.


Your favorite toys are pushing anything around. Playing our piano, riding on your play car or having mommy push you around the room on it. You love music. You love people.

You probably weigh about 19 - 20 lbs now. Your getting taller every minute.
You wear size 3 diapers and size 3 shoes. You wear size 6-9 pants and 6-9 shirts. Sometimes your pants sag a little because of your tiny waste.

You hug, and you know how to kiss back. You open your mouth wide and give a sweet kiss back.

You love love love your daddy, and you want to do what daddy is doing all the time.

We are so proud of you angel. You are our everything and we can't imagine what we did without your amazing presence in our lives every day.

Happy 11 months bubs!