The Family Edelhay: Jordan, Alex, and Angus

Angus at 11 months...

Eating:
- Angus's favorite food this month is cheesy vegetables with meat.
- Angus is drinking lots more water and less formula.
- Jordan accidentally bought 6 lbs of pluots from Amazon Fresh. So Angus's pluot intake is at an all-time high.
- Angus is eating a lot. He has really upped his intake of food. He's both chubbing out and lengthening. He's also sleeping a lot. Hello growth spurt!

Sleeping:
- Angus started getting up at 4:30 am, so we moved his bedtime from 7pm to 8. Now he's waking up around 6am.
- Angus has become a napper! He's regularly taking two 2 hour naps a day, with a snack nap around 5:30. This is quite a change from his newborn days when we could barely keep him asleep for 45 minutes.
- Angus knows when he wants to go to sleep. He seeks out his dad, his bottle, and his snuggly blue blanket when he gets tired.

Listening to:
- "For the Kids" -- Cake covers Mahna Mahna, and Guster sings a song about being clean.

Reading:
- Angus still loves "Spring is Here". He is also liking the vegetable book.
- Angus and his nanny Chelsie are going to storytime at the library most Thursday mornings.

Playing with:
- Angus is loving his new walker wagon. He's even able to steer the wagon a little bit. It's giving him newfound mobility.
- Angus is loving his pacifier. He's getting more attached.
- Water... Angus went to the wading pool and to Lake Washington for the first time. He experienced waves, and sand, and sun, and splashing, and pool toys. He held onto our hands and toddled around the wading pool. He learned how to splash. After all that, he finally has become a boy who loves the bath. He'll spend 20 minutes in the bath now, splashing around.
- Angus loves his new toothbrush. This month, Angus has started to like imitating Alex and I. We got him his own toothbrush and he loves sticking it in his mouth. When Alex or I do it at the same time, it cracks up Angus.
- Angus loves his singing gumball machine -- he knows how to put the balls in and out.
- And he loves anything that bounces. It's fun to throw hard balls at the floor and to see them bounce back. Grandpa raised this to an art form by bringing out the golf balls, then having them ricochet around his tile bathroom.
- Angus loves opening and shutting anything, especially doors. He's discovered where the corner tupperware cabinet is and he knows how to pull out the lids. Also... he likes banging the cabinet doors. The louder the better.
- Angus is getting really attached to his blue blanket. When he's tired, he seeks it out and starts rubbing his face on it.

Skills:
- Angus is still babbling. He's making so many different sounds
- Proclaiming ... Angus sticks his hand out, attracting attention, gives a little speech ( da da da da adja!), then does something impressive like taking a step.
- Standing, standing, standing.
- Clapping
- Angus took his first steps on his own and has gotten really good at walking while holding one of our fingers.
- His jokes and activities are getting more complicated. Angus likes playing hide and seek. He hides behind the rocking chair while we call out... "Where's angus... angus... angus... " Then he appears from behind the chair with a big, happy proud smile.
- Angus has learned how to kneel down and look under doors, which is pretty darn cute.

Events:
- Angus grew 2 new teeth. Now he has 4 on top and 4 on the bottom.
- Eczema is still bad. We use hydrocortisone on his face for a couple of weeks. Applying Vaseline while he's in the bathtub every day is really helping keep it under control.