Silas 11 months

Although Silas may not have learned a lot of new things this month he definitely has developed his movements.  Not only can he crawl, but he can CRAWL! He zooms around from one end of the room to the next.  He thinks it is super fun if you try to chase him and he scurrries away.  Sometimes he even tries to chase us. But I have to say it again, Silas is such a happy baby. He is constantly smiling and he just gets so excited about everything.  If Søren and I begin laughing at something, he starts laughing and before we know it all three of us are laughing at each other. It is so precious. He babbles constantly, and although we haven’t made out any clear words yet, I am sure that he thinks he is saying words. Finally our boy is still a great eater, he eats 1½ pieces of “rugbrød” for lunch and eats everything and more of what we prepare for him at dinner time. He doesn’t really seem to have a stop button when it comes to food. I guess being so active makes him hungry.

Silas’ rythym is hard to figure out.  At the beginning of the month he was getting up between 7 and 7:30 am. He would lie awake in his bed chatting for awhile, and then we would bring him into bed with us to just hang out and relax before all three of us got up. Now this past week and a half he has been waking up as early as 5:45am, but usually between 6 and 6:30.  We let him talk to himself and then usually one of us gets up and eats breakfast with him. On the days he has gotten up early he usually takes a 20 minute nap in the morning, but many days he has gone without his morning nap. His afternoon nap can last up to 3 hours, or like the past few days only 1-2 hours. The days he takes a longer nap then he has not needed his later afternoon nap at all. So some days he was only taking 1 nap! It’s nice having so much time with him and not having to plan things around his multiple nap times.

Traits at 11 months:
1) Silas now wears size 80cm clothes and has mostly outgrown  size 12 months.

2) Has 7, almost 8 teeth.  4 on top, 4 on the bottom.

3) Had his first real sickness. He had a fever around 40 degrees Celsius for 3 days in a row. Usually the fever started after lunch sometime and lasted until bedtime.  He just wanted to cuddle and didn’t have much energy for anything. But he would have spurts of energy where he could smile here and there. He was also a bit cranky these days, but overall handled it very well. It was hard for Mommy to hear him moaning though.

4) Eats all meals “alone.” (except his oatmeal breakfast) We still only put a few pieces of food on his plate at a time, but he picks up all different types of food items and happily puts them in his mouth. We can tell that he enjoys mealtimes much more when he can decide the tempo.

5) Eats the same food as us! No more making special food for Silas, he can eat pretty much anything that we are having for dinner.

6) Can get down from a standing position. He started out being quite cautious, but now he easily reaches down and when his hand reaches the floor he gets down into crawling position.

7) Gets mad when you say “no” or take something away that isn’t safe to play with. In general there isn’t much Silas isn’t allowed to play with, but of course those few things are so exciting and he gets upset if he doesn’t get his way.  Right now the exciting items are: The TV, my glasses, and putting the camera and Iphones into his mouth.

8) Has gotten his first haircut. But it is growing back really fast.

9) Does not lay still on the changing table.  He is always rolling over or trying to stand up. We have had to be a bit creative on how to change his diaper.

10) Crawl over the bean bag chair and slide down on his stomach. One time he slid a little too fast and ended up doing a sommersault.

11) Can open all sorts of drawer and cabinets and begin to empty their contents.

12) Can climb up stairs...the very first time he tried he made it all the way up!

I don't want my picture taken

Playing the drum set.