Eleven months

The happy little baby boy is 11 months old today!!! I really can't believe that in one month my baby will be 1 year old. This year has just flown by!

Theodore is on the move these days. He's rarely still or quiet (unless he's getting into trouble), and he's always searching for something to do, new things to explore, toilets to play in, etc. 

For example, this morning at the playground. He pushed his little walking toy from the parking lot to the playground, and pushed it all around the playscape.  Then it looked like he was going to cruise along the playscape for a while, so I sat down.  

As soon as I sat down, he took off for the baseball fields. Stinker! 

A few minutes later, he was innocently holding onto the slide and watching a butterfly. Until I turned my back to help Oliver with his kickstand, and then . . .  

. . . he was up on the slide in no time flat!

Besides getting into mischief and crawling away from me, Theodore's other favorite thing to do is chase the vacuum cleaner. He loooooves it. Most babies cry around vacuums, right? (My older ones did, anyway.) Not Theodore. He follows it around, crawls directly in front of it (while it's on, blowing air and dust particles right into his face), tries to sit on it, and lick it. Silly baby!  

He also loves rummaging in the kitchen cabinets, especially the ones containing the plastic cookie cutters and metal baking pans. The louder, the better!  

In the food department, his current favorites are homemade hummus (preferably right off of a spoon), blackberries, colby jack cheese, and watermelon.    

He's still a sweet, laidback baby boy! We just all love him so much. Even when the older kid are grumpy, Theodore can always make them smile. He's such a cute, sweet little guy. 

Happy 11 months, baby boy!