Dean 11 months

I can't believe our Bean is one month away from being a 1 year old!

Here's what he's done this month:
-finally, finally, finally started eating food! Baby peach puffs, baby cheese puffs, yogurt melts, little bites of whatever i'm eating, and of course...baked lays...
-jabbering (jargoning?)... talking like he's actually saying sentences, but in a foreign language
-cruising along furniture, moving from furniture to furniture
-watching a little Baby Einsteins, mostly when he wakes up at 6am before mom is ready to be functional
-There was a week or so that I would have to give him a chip to keep him still long enough to get his clothes or diaper changed
-road tripped to New Hampshire (post on that coming soon)
-he's started being destructive...hitting toys together, crushing food we give him or hitting it against the table, picking up and throwing things that are in his crawling path
-He is up to 6 teeth! 4 on top, 2 on bottom.
-He's gone through a fussy/yelling phase (probably due to the teething mentioned above). But the boy has definitely learned volume and gets pretty dang loud.

Mostly, it's just been fun to see him go from baby to kid...
See what I mean:

He's trouble(permanent marker on his face and chin folds)

Speaking of chins and folds...
He is getting taller, thinning out a little, and I actually see his neck more than just bath time when I would lift his chin to clean his neck.
He plays and explores

Loves playing/tagging along with the big kids
Luckily, they like Dean as much as he likes them

(Can't keep him out of the Burger King play place)

Did I mention he's getting tall?

(too tall to stand under a kitchen table)

He can {kind of} walk with only one handed assistance

Loves playing with his dad

{who is apparently way more fun than mom}
(if you make this picture bigger, you can kind of see his top teeth. Cute and gappy)

He just starting holding his own bottle {finally}
And now holds everything like he's drinking from a bottle

Did I mention he's getting tall???

He's started climbing over things...

Into things...

And I probably already mentioned that he's tall...

Oh, and I had to document one of his sad faces...

And of course
Videos.

What our General Conference weekend was like:


Loves when we help him drink out of a big cup, or tries it himself.


Little bit of his one hand walking.


23 days left of year #1!