We'll be celebrating a birthday in a month and I can't believe how fast this past year has gone by. This little stinker is 11 months old! I mean... How and when did that happen?! Austin is now 28 3/4 inches tall and weighs 19 lbs 5 oz. He has bypassed my other children and is the biggest of the three. He is wearing 12 month clothes and size 3 diapers. His size 3 shoes are getting pretty tight and he probably won't be wearing them for much longer. His eyes are brown but still have grey speckles in them. (The closest to having an eye color at this age then my other kids so I'll take it!) And his hair is the same light brown with a hint of red undertones that all my other kids has been. He does seem to have a little bit of baby curl on the back of my head that I think is really cute but gets turned into a rats nest very easily.
I still can't get over this boys smile. It is just the best and I love it! Austin has now mastered the stairs and can go up and down them without any problem which means he has full range of the house and a mind of his own. He learned how to turn around at the top of the stairs shortly after he turned 10 months old and has just improved from there and has started venturing out on climbing up on things. He also likes to play with the doors. Opening and closing them, and has locked himself behind a door or two. Austin has also mastered the "moglie" crawl. He is all over the place on this hands and feet and he is fast! So far he hasn't ever face planted it but I keep waiting for it to happen because of how fast he is going. He did get his first black eye a couple weeks ago from banging his eye on the edge of a table....
Some things that Austin is doing right now is roaring, like a lion or dinosaur. Waving hi with his whole arm and hi or bye with just his hand opening and closing. He is giving high fives and has started to blow kisses (although right now it just means spreading is burgers all over his face) and hitting. He is the quickest of my kids to learn to hit because of the lovely example from his older siblings. Mostly the one just above him. Him and Ida fight a lot but they also have started to play a lot and Austin loves it when his older siblings play with him! He loves singing and doing the signs to pat-a-cake and when I do "Shoe the old horsey" on his feet. He also likes to randomly just lay out on the floor (on his tummy) and watch what's going on around him. Austin likes to brush my hair. And if he finds a brush laying around he will seek me out so that he can brush my hair with it. He is really better at putting it in knots... But I'm sure he will improve with practice!
Austin does not like teething and unfortunately he has been teething for like the past month. He is currently working on his top two middle teeth and his gums have been off and on swollen and red this past month. Right now they are so red and I can see them through his gums but they just haven't popped through yet! It has taken forever but I know they are just days away from getting them both! He has not been a very happy boy... But pain can do that to you! I have realized Austin is really only super attached to me when he is in pain or not feeling well. When he is feeling good he will happily go to anyone! Austin is also really mastering the fits. He has gotten really good and laying himself down and rolling around and around on the floor. He is also mastering throwing a fit in your lap. If you are holding him facing out then he throws himself backwards and arches his back then if you turn him around and stand him on your lap he buckles over and face plants it with your stomach. And he just continues to do this over and over depending on the direction you face him until you just put him down where he continues his fit on the ground. He has improved with swimming though and we can now take him and he isn't clinging to us the whole time. I realized I think it's more the cold water he hates more than the water. Although he is more cautious of the water than any of my other kids. But getting him to stand in the water by himself is a start!
Austin is so close to walking! I mean... He is going to be walking within the next week or two. I feel like at this point he has the ability to walk he just has to decide that's what he wants to do. He can take up to 12 or 13 controlled steps at a time and if he is close to something he will stand up in the middle of the floor then walk to the object. He will also walk between the furniture if it is only a few steps. He is really good at walking while you hold onto one of his hands and we try to do that as much as he will let us.
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About 10 days ago I moved Austin over to the kids room. I was going to wait until he was sleeping through the night but his sleeping alone has been so challenging I decided if I waiting till he was sleeping through the night, moving him might cause him to stop sleeping through the night, so I would have to teach him twice to sleep through the night. In the end I decided just moving him over and letting him learn to sleep through the night once was all I wanted to deal with. When I asked Jacob if he wanted Austin to sleep in his room Jacob said no because he didn't want Austin's crying to wake him up. Understandably...
But Austin has really done great with the transition! He has had to cry it out a couple of times but I'm pretty sure both kids fell asleep while Austin was still crying. So it all went pretty smoothly. He is going to bed at 8:30 and usually waking up twice a night, once between 11:30-12:30 and another between 4:30-5:30. When he does only wake up once he skips out on one of those two times and will very occasionally just sleep through the night. He is taking two naps a day. One around 11 and the other around 2.
