11 months old

I can hardly believe this is my last month post before he is a year old! Time to start thinking about his birthday, though I do have his main present stashed away :-). Luke is a big boy, 23 pounds, and still has 8 teeth. He cruises around now, but still only says, mama, though I'm pretty sure he said, dada one evening. He eats quite a bit of solid food, pretty much just whatever we are eating, though a favorite is bananas. Nursing is going ok, he generally does 3 times a day, before each nap and bed, but we have to be in a  perfectly quiet room with no distractions for any nursing to happen, and sometimes I really have to work at it to convince him to eat. I'm guessing he will wean early, but if at all possible I want to keep him nursing till he is 12 months old. (Caroline weaned at 14 months). We had a rough patch with sleeping this past month. We trained him to sleep through the night, and then I reasoned that if he got up and nursed once that wasn't a big deal, and it generally got in a good nursing session which was a big deal to me. Sadly though it was a slippery slope to Luke deciding if he was allowed to get up once, why not three or four, or five times a night......so had to redo some sleep training, and the past two nights he has slept though the night great. He's still very much my cuddly baby and loves to snuggle on my lap, or just crawl up to me, lay his head on my leg, and suck his thumb.