Bennett's 10 & 11 Months Letter

Oh my sweet Bennett,

You are just so busy these days. You wake up, want down and only make exceptions when you're hungry to sleepy. You are fast on all fours and could walk if you really wanted to. You've taken a couple steps here and there, but I think you're waiting to take off till you can run. You're so close! I keep thinking you'll take off any day now. You already keep up with Tucker at all costs and love to play with both your brothers.

You love your brothers, balls and your blanket. You refuse to sleep without it and no others will do. It's pretty cute that you have a lovie. One more way you are total opposite of your big brother. You still love your Daddy most of all and also love to say "Dada" while refusing to say Momma at all. You occasionally say "Bubba." You still love to clap your hands, patty cake, and blow kisses. You also really enjoy singing the Itsy Bitsy Spider or rather watching Momma and Tucker sing it. You are also becoming quite the little dancer. You love to shake your booty when you hear music, pretty cute! You also really like Tucker's trampoline and bounce on your knees until Tucker jumps close enough to bounce you. Sweet brothers.

You do not love to be fed anymore. You are so independent in all you do really. You'd much rather figure things out yourself, but you will still let us help with some things. You hate having to be still enough to get your diaper changed. You are definitely strong willed and make your own mind up about things/people. You are a little mean, especially to Casen. You LOVE to pull his hair or be rough with him and it seems like you're doing it on purpose sometimes, Little Turkey! We have to watch you guys all the time.

You are eating lots of table foods now and we haven't found much you don't like. Your favorites are yogurt, ritz crackers, biscuits, beans, sweet potato, grapes and bananas. You still eat baby food regularly.

You wear size 12-18 month clothes because your so long. Your in size 4 diapers. You weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 pounds. You are waking up once a night again for some reason and while we really loved sleeping through the night once with two under a year old isn't bad. You have 8 teeth and are working on some more. You've been pretty cranky this last couple weeks and running a low grade fever on and off.

We have an appointment scheduled for you see an ENT who will remove the cyst on your eyebrow. It's kinda scary, but also routine for the doctors. Nothing to be concerned about they think.

You flew on your first airplane this month and you did great! It was also our first time to travel with a baby on board, but we had no reason to worry. You were a trooper. We flew to Durham, North Carolina and spent a few days checking out the seminary Daddy is going to start taking classes from.

I cannot believe you are almost a year old! This year has passed so quickly! You have been the absolute best baby on the planet. While your independence is causing a little bit of discipline you have truly been one of our best dreams come true. I cannot imagine life without your sweet toothy smile, your slobbery kisses or you precious giggles. I'm so thankful that God chose me to be your Momma!
I love you more,
Momma