Our Week Home - Adam 11 Months

We got to spend a week back in the cities last week, which was wonderfuL!  I was lucky enough to have a week off, so we decided to go back to the cities so Derek could work from the home office while Adam and I spent time with grandma and Michael.  It was a great week! Great Grandma Johnson and Derek's uncle Mike were in town to visit, so we were able to see them and spend some time at the 3M golf tournament as well.  Adam loved great grandma G.G. because she always had goldfish or teddy grahams to give him.  He would walk around with a cracker in his mouth and then point to her every time he wanted another one!  He thought this was the best thing ever.  We also were lucky enough to spend a little time with Vicky and Tracy, as they were in town as well.  Tracy was working on her music videos, so we got to help with that a little.  Also, we saw Jason and Melissa, Russ and Krissy with Trevor and Gwen, as well as Teresa, Brian, and Nora for dinner at La Casita one night.  It is funny how much Adam watches Nora when she is around.  He is fascinated with other children!  I think it is probably time for me to get him involved in some play groups or something, since he is such a little social butterfly!

Also while we were in the Cities, Adam turned 11 months old.  I can not believe how much it seems like he has grown over the past several weeks.  He went from crawling to now walking holding on to things and he seems to have picked it up so quickly.  Now he can walk as long as he is holding one hand.  He will take 2-3 steps on his own if we trick him into thinking we are holding on to him, but he is a little too nervous to try it himself yet.  I think it will definitely be in the near future!  He now has 6 teeth - 2 on the bottom and 4 on top.  He eats anything we are eating and it is funny to watch him take little bites of his crackers and things!  He is working on his words.  Over the past few weeks he has learned a few new ones... when Journey goes outside to go potty he tells her to "Go" and then when she comes back inside he says "good girl" which really sounds more like "goo goo", but he gets the concept.  He now says Mama and Dada more distinctly without the continued rambling, and when he babbles now he does it with many different patterns and tones to his voice.  He is starting to get the inflections of different names, and is getting much clearer with his tones.  I think he will be talking much more over the next couple months.  He has gotten very good at pointing to tell us what he wants or who he wants to go to.  He is particularly good at this when there is food nearby that he wants or his bottle.

         

 

 

Overall, we had a wonderful week with our families, and as usual it went way too fast.  Now we are back in Sioux Falls and back to work, which luckily means that Adam is back to his regular sleeping through the night. Yay!