I keep forgetting to post! And, the last two or three times I have posted I have tried to post video and it won't work. If anybody has any ideas...let me know!
Brenton weighed 23 pounds 6 1/4 oz at his 11 month weigh-and-measure and had grown a couple of inches to about 30 1/2-almost 31 inches. This is amazing to me because at birth he was only 19 inches....so he has grown almost a foot!!
We are getting SO excited for his FIRST BIRTHDAY! I have been working on arrangements and Travis and I made a trip to Toys R Us last weekend to see if we could "narrow down" the list of things we each really want to get for our little figure-it-out man. Going to Toys R Us only made our lists longer, of course, so we'll have to work on that one again! :) Neither Travis or I had been to Toys R Us in....probably 3 years so we had a blast- up and down every aisle- and "testing" things out!!
In that paragraph I called Brenton our little figure-it-out man....and that is so true of the stage that he is in right now. His little personality- excuse me, BIG personality- is to figure EVERYTHING out and to DO IT HIMSELF! The other night he spent probably ten minutes inserting his toy through one side of a small opening, and pulling it out the other. Every time he would look back to the other side to see that the toy was there, and the proceed to the other side to see that it was on the other side, too (I don't know if this makes sense in writing). He has also discovered how pulling something works and so we have rigged a variety of things he can pull around the house. Dog leashes work great for this!-- we just hook something onto the end that is supposed to be for the dog's collar, and then he grabs it and spends lots of time moving away from and closer to the object and moving his arms to get the toy to do what he wants! He is like a little explorer every day! And I just wish I could see the thought processes that were happening in his smart, growing brain!!!!
This weekend coming up we are really excited that my family will be in town for a baby shower we're having for our good friend, Araceli. We only get to see them about once a month and I miss them a lot. I am also going to be having a wonderful time Saturday getting a 30 minute massage and a pedicure- thank you Travis and Michelle!!!!!
Well...gotta run help with breakfast! I am running behind on uploading pictures (as usual)....so I will get on that soon!
