11 months old

Cooper turned 11 months old on May 14. Time is just zooming by, and our little baby boy is really not much of a baby anymore. He is very much a little boy, and we continue to enjoy watching his little personality develop. We can't believe we'll be celebrating his first birthday in less than a month. These are some things Cooper is doing right now:

Cooper learned to give kisses the other day. This is about the sweetest thing I could have imagined, he's so pleased with himself every time he does it too, it really melts your heart. He's still just doing the army crawl, he seems to be just fine with that, since he gets around pretty well. He has started doing a lot of mimicking, he loves to watch facial expressions, or hear sounds and try to repeat them. We think his first "official" word is dada, though its still kind of hit or miss whether he actually uses it to mean daddy, but it seems to be his favorite word/sound right now. He is cruising around on furniture, and races around the house in his walker. He loves books with flaps or something on the page that he can manipulate, and he has to turn all the pages himself. He also loves books with real pictures of babies or other children. He's starting to enjoy playing a little more independantly, figuring out how toys work on his own and whatnot, though he still likes to know that mom or dad are closeby. He's decided he doesn't much like many solid vegetables. He'll eat pureed green beans all day, but put whole ones on his tray and he'll feed them to the dog, I think its a texture thing. Oh and yes, he's totally figured out he can just hang his little hand out over his tray and give his food to the dog, another trick he's quite proud of himself over. Okay, well I could probably go on for days on all the little things he's learning and doing right now, but I'll stop myself there. I think these are a few fun ones to remember. Overall, Cooper is a really happy, curious, and funny little 11 month old. A few pictures of our big boy: