Happy 11 Months, Burlap Banana.
You are 11 months old today! I can’t believe it. Just a little while ago you looked like this.
and now you are crawling around, shouting, dancing (with hands on something sturdy), and looking like this…
That’s not entirely accurate. Mommy put two of your cup toys to embellish your bosom…your typical look is this…
There is so much to catch up on. It is now the 4th week of school; I haven’t updated the Chronicles in a while.
San Diego was a blast. We met Nana and Poppop there and spent the week hanging out at the pool in our flippy floppys, the Zoo, going on an evening cruise, taking some side trips to La Jolla and Vista, and taking surfing lessons! We were also hoping you would start crawling on the trip, but it didn’t happen.
What’s happening these days with you? You and Clementine are still working together pretty well. Clementine has discovered that when she camps out under your feeding seat, she will often be rained on with food…most of which she eats. You have thrown a lot of chicken and turkey meatballs her way. I’ve seen her take a piece of string cheese out of your hand and then clean your fingers. She even ate a piece of plum the other day! The dog hasn’t yet learned that being RIGHT UNDER YOU is dangerous; you’ve dropped your sippy cup on her. She also has more food in her mohawk; you dropped some apple pieces and rice on her head. She doesn’t really care; but Mommy and I don’t like to have a dog with food ON her head….you’re difficult enough to clean up.
You are getting mischevious, grabbing a bag and pulling it down, fussing when we pull you out of no infant situations, not sleeping on the plane flights, smiling and staring at strangers, pulling the paper placemat at a restaurant, and you’re starting to NOT like time on the changing table. We’ve seen signs of four more teeth on the top part of your mouth…the incisors came first and just lately your two front teeth are showing.
What’s going on in the world right now? Mommy has left for 10 days to work in England and Switzerland. It was only going to be a week but due to the Ebola outbreak, she’s had a meeting at the WHO added to her plate that’s extended her time gone. Neither of us are happy about it, but travel is a part of her work. In other news……the NFL is on the hot plate now for a large number of cases of domestic abuse, notably the Ray Rice video showing him knock his fiance out. There are fires in California, riots in Ferguson, MO, everyone was doing the ice bucket challenge to raise awareness and money for ALS, the Islamic State (ISIS) beheaded a third western captive, Hilary Clinton is “thinking” about running for president in 2016, and voters in Scotland voted not to break from the United Kingdom.
Be thinking about what you’d like to do for your birthday, pumpkin. A cake, a bounce house, a litter of puppies, skydiving, a new binky?
Love, Daddy