We celebrated Drew’s first Easter in Cincinnati with the Greulich and Oberrecht families. We all had a great day.

Family picture after church

I have to admit, this is a “Larissa” expression

Practicing some rolling

Drew says: “No more pictures please.”
After church, brunch and family time – we left for Mimi and PaPa’s house.

Cute cousins

Quick, yet much needed catnap on a busy day.

Opening Day 2013!

Best pictures we were able to get. It was cold outside!

Drew spent his first Opening Day watching the game on TV with Mom Mom.

It turned out to be an absolutely beautiful day all the way to the 7th inning. And then….it was downright COLD.

“I skipped my naps for this?” Reds lose in 13 innings.

st a littl

11 months old today! Seriously – I swear I just had this little guy and here I am planning his first birthday party. Wow. Someone told me once – the days are long but the weeks are short. This felt so true back in my maternity leave days. Now the days, weeks, weekends, months…all of it seems short short short. But – we’re having fun and enjoying every day.

Personality: Sweet sweet Drew. Here’s our “mild mannered” baby below. Many people have commented that he’s so calm and good natured, and he is…most of the time, but oh boy, he definitely does have a temper. The fun thing about his tantrums are that they can be turned into giggle fits in seconds. His new teachers today also commented on his “serious” or “stoic” face. Yep, he still turns into Mr. Serious when he’s a little uncertain of the situation.

Ever wonder what really goes on when I take Drew’s “chair” pictures? Luckily Tim was close by to catch a super quick Drew.

Look who has teeth!!! Yep, two of them and plenty more on the way I think. We’ve had an up and down month with sleep. I’m convinced it must be teething related.

Drew continues to amaze us with his eating habits. This month he started table foods. Um – this child eats everything and feeds himself. Is this normal? Are all 11 month olds able to do this easily? Tonight I put Drew’s food on his tray and I ate the exact same thing (in slightly larger pieces) right next to him. It was amazing. Typcially I don’t eat dinner until after he’s down for the night but I totally enjoyed my 5:45pm dinner tonight! I can get used to this. Now, we are struggling in the whole milk department. He’s now only nursing morning and evening and not so interested in drinking cold milk in a sippy cup. We’re working on it.

Firsts:

• Reds game – seperate blog post coming soon!
• Playdate at Lexie’s (Tim and I went to a baby free event! yea!)
• Day at The Gardner School (he did awesome)

Milestones:

• Feeding himself with table / finger foods
• Crawling, army crawling that is – and he’s darn good at it.
• Waves hi and bye-bye
• Not really a milestone but if anyone says “Yea baby!”, Drew immediately starts clapping. Adorable.

Sick of green striped shirt pictures? 🙂 Somebody got lazy tonight. I do have tons of pictures from the last month and I’m committted to getting all caught up before the big birthday!!

e play time before bed.

So it is July 12th and I’m currently writing Drew’s 10 month blog post on the iPad while in the car enroute to a quickie Cincinnati trip (and yes, I’m the passenger). This will be our third consecutive weekend on the road. Though we are thoroughly enjoying our jam packed summer, it does get tricky traveling with Drew and his always-on-the-road-during-the-week-anyway Daddy. It has been a great month though with lots of firsts and lots of fun!

Here we go on his 10 month updates…

Health: Yessss! This is the first month since staring daycare in January that he hasn’t had a cold or some sort of virus. A healthy Drew is a happy Drew.

Sleep: More often than not Drew wakes up at least once a night. Thankfully he goes right back down. On weekends he has been taking two 90-ish minute naps which has been a nice change (versus three 45 minute naps). Daycare days, he just parties all day.

Personality: So fun! He has been super chatty and very playful. He is a little flirt too….I saw this firsthand when I picked him up one day (smiling and playing with Chloe) and in the grocery store! He totally picked up a 1-year old named Katarina. No kidding. I

was talking to her mom for all of 15 seconds and Drew reached over to hold the little girl’s hand and giggle at her. He still has his serious side but that usually only comes out around new people or unfamiliar places (but I guess new babies doesn’t count). Oh and lately the second we leave the room he cries. Luckily that hasn’t happened when I leave him at daycare. Yet.

Eating: Oh my gosh, this child loves to eat. Everything from parsnips, spinach and broccoli to cucumber, raspberries and plums. Besides his pureed food, we’ve also been feeding him bits and pieces of table food. So far he’s had bread, turkey, chicken, cheese, apple newton, potatoes, hummus and plenty more. He is our little champion eater and we really want to keep it that way. Imagine the damage he will do once he has (more) teeth. Oh and who invented those food pouches?! That person was a genius. Maybe Drew should be the poster child?

Teeth: Nope, not yet. Edited: On the night of Drew’s 10 month birthday (7/13), the grandma’s found his first tooth! It’s barely peeking through but sure enough, it’s there. Yea!

Firsts: trip to the Nashville Zoo, beach vacation (Marco Island, FL) which include his first flight (he did awesome), his first goose egg on the forehead (while eating out on vacation), his first time swimming in the pool (he loved it) and his first ocean experience (he hated it).

Milestones: He is not crawling yet but just in the past day or two he has been getting from point A to point B pretty well. His lower body does most of the work but he eventually gets to his destination.

He also said Mama (9.5 months) for the first time. It’s music to my ears after two solid months of Dada dada dada dada dada. 🙂

Here are some pictures from our past month. Prepare for picture overload.

Drew and Luke sharing.

Bored of toys already?

Buddies watching Baby Einstein

First trip to the zoo

I have gobs of vacation pictures to dig through. We had such a great time. I knew vacationing with a baby would be different but it was great. We pretty much did nothing each day which is exactly what vacation should be (in my opinion of course). Thank goodness for the ocean front condo though…without that I may be singing a different tune. A separate vacation post will be coming soon.

Will we really have a 1 year old in just two months?! Each day our little monkey keeps getting more and more fun!

Drew’s 10 month mark is right around the corner so I wanted to slap this comparison picture up before I forget about it.