11.5 months

Cole,

Happy 11 month birthday!!!!

This is about 2 weeks late and I apologize for that. Mommy has been very busy working, planning your first birthday, and preparing you for a very very big surprise! You have grown so much this last month. You are no longer a chubby blob but stretching into a taller, skinnier version of yourself. Your next trip to the pediatrician should be fun to see how much you have grown. You are getting ready to transition out of the infant room at your little school and go in with the big kids. It’s weird to think of you as the oldest kid in your class but you literally run circles around all of the other babies. You have started RUNNING away from me when you are up to no good and I love chasing you around the house. Today you learned how to jump for the first time. You were standing on the edge of the front porch holding my hand as we went out to check the mail.. you looked up at me with a very serious face and stood there for a second, unsure what to do next…all of a sudden you JUMPED off the edge and landing on both feet, looked up at me with the biggest smile on your face and screamed “HA!!!!!!!” It was like you had been planning it for weeks! It was probably the funniest thing you have done yet. I love you, little boy!

Love,

Mama