Vale is 11 months old!!!

Vale is 11 months old!! AAHHH! Time is flying!

He wasn't exactly mr. chipper on his month-bday though...

grouchy pants!

who needs a bib...

He did take his first 3 steps on his special day!!! :) YEAH VALE!

He stood up in the doorway and I saw him out of the corner of my eye so I looked over to make sure he wasn't going to fall and hit the door jam and what do you know, he took three steps towards me then went down onto his knees to crawl!

This is us trying to get him to replicate the event... wasn't happening.

 He's realized he gets around much faster on all fours so he's in no rush to walk... sigh... oh well.

 He is a happy little man though when he's eating!  Loves his bottle and any kind of food!

I think that might have to do with the teething.  He likes to chew on EVERYTHING...

Still got those sweet baby blues...:)

Vale doesn't say much but he sure does like to scream!  He communicates with us through his pitch, low ooo's when he sees something that he'd like us to give him, short bursts of ah ah ah's when he feels he's being ignored and wants attention and high pitched shreeks when he's mad because no one is heeding his requests.

Vale is sleeping through the night!!! WHEWWW WHOOOO!!!!! :)  One happy mama right here!!!  Four nights in a row 8 to 6...

He loves to play in the bathtub, shower, sink or any body of water you will let him get close to.  Absolutely adores the pool and love to splash water everywhere.

He is now completely weened.  He started doing formula only about a week ago and is doing great on it!  We gave him infamil first and that made his exude a very weird vinegary smell... it was odd... the moment we switch to similac though, it went away.

Vale loves the taste of anything you give him but not the texture!  If it's mushy, be assured it's coming back out... he really likes to eat things on his own.  He doesn't like to be fed.

Vale LOVES to climb!  When he sees the baby gate is down he makes a beeline for the stairs.  I caught him today standing on the dishwasher door playing with the things on the top rack as I was loading... he had climbed up on there to get to what he wanted.  He will just go over anything in his way as well when he's crawling on the floor.  Not a big fan of going around... over, through or under... sigh... :)