11 months

at eleven months, you are moving!

always! so getting your monthly picture was all but impossible.

but it's tradition...

so we kept trying.

and what we got was... well, you.

at 11 months, you think it's hilarious to scurry away while we chase you through the apartment, room by room, shouting your name and tickling your hurried little feet. your exaggerated giggles get louder and louder as we inch closer for big, hungry kisses. you still move only with large, sweeping pushes of your feet, like you're climbing the carpet instead of scooting in any sort of horizontal motion. but you move fast, and towards only the most off-limits part of the house - like the garbage can, the lamp cord, the tv.

tonight, on our way home from daycare, i clenched my jaw in anticipation of your angry shouts from your perch in the back seat. because the drive home from daycare is the time of day you take to air your grievances/scream at the top of your extra healthy lungs. but tonight the screams never came. and when i peeked back to inquire, i saw only the top of your head, heavily swaying with the motion of the car. you woke up in the most spectacular mood just as we walked in the door, and daddy and i decided on the spot that a 5 minute nap on the way home is exactly what leads to the perfect sort of night, if there's anything you can do to replicate that moving forward....

your daddy is especially taken with you these days, and watching the two of you together is the most magical thing on earth. you roll about together on the floor like lion cubs, and nuzzle each other until you're both giggling so hard you come up for air red-faced and hiccuping.

you, in this little family, is the only thing in the world that makes sense huckers, and i am so very grateful to spend this precious time of my life as your mommy. happy 11 months baby!

look at you when you were 1 month, 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, 5 months, 6 months, 7 months, 8 months, 9 months, and 10 months!