Month 11

Swe-cha is 11 months old now. Wow! How fast time flies.

He still has not said any words other than Mama but he is making a lot of sounds including, "essss" and "ha" (which, by the way, I could also claim to be a word). He is such a handful nowadays because he climbs the walls of his playyard with ease, you turn your head for a second and there he is, already more than halfway out with his waist already above the top of the fence. We scold him whenever we see him do this but I don't think that he listens at all.

He can also follow simple instructions and gestures when he wants to. The operative words here are "when he wants to" because when he is not in the mood, he will just ignore us as if he isn't hearing anything. If we didn't know any better, we'd think that he has hearing problems. During bedtime, I would ask him "Good night, Moon ?" and if he wants me to read it to him, he will crawl over to where we keep the books to get it, hand it to me and then sit on my lap. During playtime, I would hand him the plastic ball that came with his musical gears you and point where he could drop it and he would do as I indicated.

"Goodnight, Moon" is one of his favorite books right now. When reading "Goodnight, Moon", Mommy would make kitten sounds when we reach the "goodnight kittens" part and he would attempt to make those sounds as well. He would also always turn to look at Mommy and touch her face at the "three little bears, sitting on chairs" part. Awww :)

The other book that he loves is "Harry Bear and Friends, Book of Opposites". This board book is now very battered, has folds and creases in many pages and has a partially torn back cover - all testaments to how much he loves to play with it.

He is also getting very good at balancing. He would stand up a lot now, look around and then take a step towards wherever it was that he wanted to go and then get on his hands and knees to crawl. He has not mastered the art of walking yet but hopefully, he will soon.

He has not gained a lot of weight during this month as he is on his 3rd week of a pseudo-hunger-strike. It's been harder and harder to get him to eat solids and he could go for days without having any solids at all. Thankfully, his milk intake is still at a stable 25+ oz per day so I decided not to make a big deal out of it anymore.