11 months

I'm a couple days late with this post but it's not because mom forgot, we just couldn't find the right outfit. The outfit Jonah wore for 11 months is missing so we had to bump up the order a bit.
Let's see, what can I tell you about me this month...
For starters, I am totally walking now. Crawling is still faster but I want to be on my feet as much as possible. Yesterday I walked down the hallway to surprise mom! I love to have something in my hands. It doesn't matter what it is but I have to have something in each hand and it must be similar objects such as 2 cars, 2 puzzle pieces, 2 shoes, 2 spoons, 2 balls. It just doesn't work if the items are not the same. I even have 2 babies that I sleep with, a blue blankie bear and a brown bear. Whenever I wake up I have both of them in my hands ready to be picked up. I am such a good napper too. Whenever I get tired I go get my babies and crawl to Mama and reach for her. That's the way I tell her I'm ready for my nap. She thinks it's pretty cute and very refreshing since it was so hard to get Jonah to nap at my age.
Not surprising, I love food and will eat pretty much anything. As long as I can pick it up and put it in my mouth I'm a happy camper. My current favorites are cheese, broccoli, beans, rice, tomatoes, peaches, and of course cheerios. My favorite things to do are play with my cars or play in Jonah's room. He has all the toys in his room. I usually like to mess up whatever he's working on. Sometimes he gets upset with me but mom blames it on me being a baby...boy do I have her fooled! I also love to pull all the books off his bookshelf! I'm not too much into reading them (can't sit still) but they make great toys! I love to bounce balls and I can play catch with Jonah really well. I can also play fetch with myself pretty well too!
I'm not too fond of baths. I love getting nakey and marching to the tub but I do not like to sit down in the water. I'm a standing man, maybe I will like showers better.
I am still and early riser (5:30am) but that's because I want to be sure and see my Daddy before he leaves for work! And Mama gets to catch a few more zzz's that way which makes her very very happy. After about 45 minutes though I'm ready for my first nap which is usually a couple hours long. Then I'm up for an hour and a half and what do you know, I'm ready to go down again for another 2 hour nap. I'm a sleepy little fellow but I sure do play hard when I'm up. Besides, I need my beauty rest. (If mom dresses me in anything but blue, strangers ask if I'm a girl!) I can stay awake a bit longer in the afternoon but I still need another hour nap around 2:00 or 3:00. Then I can make it until 6:00 for bedtime.
Here are some cute pictures of me playing in the sink. I love to sit in it for some reason...

Carving Pumpkins

So here I am carving my very first pumpkin. Actually Jonah and dad are doing all the hard work, I'm just playing with the gunky insides! Jonah was a little apprehensive at first, not wanting to get "dirty" but not me, I'm no sissy! I dove right in and got some stuff for both hands. And yes, I admit it...I did try to eat it once or twice but mom put the kibosh on that!

After I was done with the pumpkins I went inside and watched Jonah and mommy finish up. I think banging on the window was more fun anyway!

Pumpkin Patch!

My first experience at the pumpkin patch was pretty fun. I sat by some pumpkins and as you can tell by the pictures, I didn't look at a single one! Actually the sun was so bright I couldn't even open my little eyes. I patted them a bit but was way more interested in the grass. I did enjoy looking at all the animals and I even got kissed by a friendly cow!

How big is Zekey?

"I'm SO BIG!"




















So big in fact that I'll show you every once in a while. And I'm rarely ever without a car in my hand. These cars happen to be my favorite and I hold them wherever I go. Sometimes I mix it up a bit and grab two socks, two pot holders, and right up there with my cars are two of Jonah's shoes. I like to put them on my hands and crawl around. But...crawling is not all I'm doing. A couple weeks ago I took my first steps and now I can walk across the room! I think I'm pretty hot stuff and I get so excited that I lunge for Mama and she scoops me up! She has been trying for a while to catch me on video but unsuccessfully so far. But stay tuned...she's known to be pretty persistent!

Why should I feed myself...?

...When I have a big brother to do it for me!

Oh no you didn't just take a bite of my food!
It goes right here buddy!
Is this target big enough for you?
Mom, why do you let him do this?