William: 11 Months

11 Month Stats

Weight: 20-ish lbs

Length: 29in

Eating: Will nurses/bottles at 7/11/3/7:30 and gets solids at 8/12:15/6:00. We are done with purees! William is just eating table food now. He gets upset when we try to spoon feed him, he wants to do it all himself. Which only means that meal time is VERY MESSY ;) He starts his meals with toast or puffs so he can hold onto something while we try to feed him. 

Bedtime: Bedtime begins about 7:30pm and Will is usually out by 8:10pm. He is going down for about 11 hours at a time. 

Naps: When he is at home for the day on the weekends, Will takes two naps a day, about 1.5 hours each. He rarely takes a first nap at daycare, but his second nap is better (probably because he is exhausted). He hasn't been taking his catnap about 5pm either. He just powers through on weekdays without the catnap.

Diapers: size 3

Clothes: Will's 9mo clothes (especially sleepers) are getting pretty snug, but the 12mo are loose. We are in the inbetween stages of clothing. 

Favorites: Exploring everywhere is Will's favorite thing to do! He crawls quickly everywhere and climbs up on everything to figure out what he can see. We are constantly moving things further away from the edges of tables. He also loves to open cabinets and drawers (and slam them closed). He stretches himself to be as tall as possible to reach everything.

Dislikes: Will HATES being alone! He will play just fine on his own as long as someone is nearby & within eyesight. But he does not like when they leave him alone in the room to play.

Development: William is working on standing on his own for a long period of time. He has mastered the pull up on anything around him and now is letting go with both hands for 2-10 seconds. When he stands, he usually waves his hands around like, "wow! do you see this??" Then, he loses his balance and plops down on his booty. It's only a matter of time!

He has taken his first steps! One night when we were visiting Nana & Papa, he took 4 or 5 steps in a row. He is confident that he can walk, but then remembers that is isn't so great at it and goes back to crawling.

He has six teeth now, front two bottom & front four top. He is using them to bite and crunch his food.

Will now waves "bye-bye" when you say it to him. Usually it's delayed by about 5-10 seconds. He & I wave bye to Bret when he goes to work and Will usually starts waving when Bret is halfway down the street.

Looking Forward To:
-planning his first birthday party
-seeing extended family for Thanksgiving
-seeing Will walk more