11 Months!

Dear Precious Robert,

Mommy must start this post by apologizing to you for not being disciplined in recording our memories. Whether it's your monthly milestones on here or jotting down little things in our black journal, I feel like I am failing us. Not only do I want you to be able to look back at your story, but I want the chance to look back and remember everything too---every sweet, precious moment of it. Taking care of you and the house, as well as going to school full-time, seems to eat up every moment of my day, but I believe that this is important enough that I need to find a way to work it in too. I'm afraid that I'm so far behind that there is no way to catch up, so I'll just try to remember what I can and do better from here on out (sorry y'all, this may be long!). I love you more than life my little man and can't even believe that in one short month we will be celebrating your 1st birthday!

• You are currently 31in long and weigh 24.5lbs. You are above the 95th% in everything.

• You are pretty much in the same clothes you were last time I wrote. You wear 9mnth or 12mnth shorts, 12mnth to 18mnth PJS, and size 12mnth for everything else. We are starting to move to some 18mnth stuff though as you are so long.
• You can walk! (started at 10mnths 3wks)
• You have 5.5 teeth---top two middle ones, bottom two middle ones, the bottom tooth directly to the right of the middle two, and the other one popping up on the other side (hmmm, what are those teeth called?)
• You "talk" all the time. You say "Dada" constantly but I'm still not sure if you ever use it in context yet. You have said "Mama" 2 or 3 times in the last week and it makes my heart explode in happiness!

• You are doing very well in daycare. All the teachers love you & you seem quite happy to have the joy of freedom to play with pretty much whatever you want in a room.
• You have experienced being sick for the first time. You got a runny nose soon after starting daycare and after about a month it turned in to a sinus infection. We started you on amoxicillin but it didn't seem to help---you actually got your 1st ear infection while on it! You also broke out in a head-to-toe rash. We don't know at this point if it was the medicine or a virus, so we'll have to keep an eye on you in the future. Now you are on a new antibiotic (Cefdinir) and we are hoping it clears things up, although you started running a fever (for the 1st time since this all started) while on it and pretty much just want to sleep. You are super happy though when you're awake.
• You are pretty much always happy =)

• You have discovered that you can put thing "into" and "over" stuff. You enjoy emptying out containers just to put stuff back in, throwing toys into your playpen, and chucking shoes over the baby gates and into the kitchen. You are also a huge fan of the tupperwear cabinent.
• We bought you your first pair of shoes this past month. You don't like them yet.

• We took you to the park for the 1st time. You weren't very impressed by the swings but LOVED climbing and going down the slide.