11 Months

Dear Ezra, 
All this time we thought that you only wanted to drink milk, when really you just wanted to eat what we were eating!  You are happy to eat whatever we cook and insist on eating whenever you see someone with food. You love cheese, meat, zucchini, carrots, pizza, and bread. You enjoy sucking the juice out of apples and grapes, but always spit out the bulk of the fruit.  This change in diet has  helped your bowels get more regular; you are finally pooping at least once a day, and usually wake up ready for a diaper change after your naps. You love playing with buttons and zippers, but your favorite accessory of all is a tiny mole on my neck.  You are especially fixated with it when I carry you in the Ergo or when I'm nursing you.  You can't keep your little claws off of it! You even go for it in the middle of the night when it is completely dark and your eyes are shut. For whatever reason, you love to play with the garbage can and can't get enough of the toilet. While most babies your age might carry around a stuffed animal or toy, you always crawl around with an odd object: a shoe tree, bottle of aloe vera, credit card, hanger, or water bottle cap (that isn't a choking hazard) to name a few. You love to dance/head bang, clap, and wave good bye. Every time we get to the last page of Go, Dog. Go! and it is time for the "dog party" you start to celebrate with a clap.  I think it is the cutest thing ever, so we read that book at least 5 times a day (with out exaggeration). You think it is pretty funny to bite me... So hilarious that you took such a chomp into me while nursing that I was bleeding and uncomfortable for a few days. It's a good thing you have such a cute laugh or you'd be cut off from your milk supply! Love you forever, 
Mom