Chicago

This past weekend we went to Chicago to see Mommy's college friend get married.  Grandma K also met us there.  It was the first time we went on a real trip since Seattle.  Seattle was a piece of cake compared to Chicago.  This flight was 4 hours each way, and Junior was difficult to control for most of the time in the air.  While in Chicago, he was too overstimulated to eat and the hotel crib was too small to sleep in comfortably.  Needless to say it was an exhausting experience.

Who me?  I'm innocent!

In Sofitel's way too small crib

Bleary-eyed Junior at 5am. 

On our way to Garrett's popcorn

First steps!

11 months old

Time flies.  We can't believe Junior is just 1 month shy of turning 1 year old.  He's getting more mobile these days, especially with his alligator walker toy.  Yesterday he took a few steps on his own trying to reach mommy.  He's still far from walking on his own, but each day his balance seems to be improving.

We've been really lucky that Junior is a great sleeper (knock on wood).  We haven't had to wake up in the middle of the night to put him back to sleep since before he was 6 months old.  Now he's sleeping even longer at night, usually from 8pm to 8am.  He falls asleep on his own, as long as we don't leave the room before he dozes off.  He's content as long as one of us is sitting in the rocking chair while he rolls around in the crib trying to fall asleep.  We hope he keeps this up.

These days he waits with nanny outside for Mommy to come home from work.  As soon as he sees Mommy's car, he'll start pointing and getting excited.  It's a nice way to come home.  He loves to press the button to close the garage door, and he'll ring our doorbell before going inside too.

He waves "bye bye" pretty consistently now, especially when he's saying bye to grandma for our daily skype sessions.  He waves with a limp floppy hand motion, which is funny because he uses brute force for everything else.

I like pointing.

More pointing

My little buddy KJS