11 months

Well,  I say it every time, but I can't believe it's been 11 months.  My baby is almost 1 year old!  Momma is already busy planning the big birthday bash!   Tate is getting more and more vocal.  Still lots of da-da's and babbling mostly.  He LOVES to eat.  I think he eats more than Hudson does - I'm not kidding.  It's ridiculous the amount he shoves in.  And how fast he shoves it in.  He loves everything I give him, but his favorite by far seems to be meat.  He devours it. 

He is crawling everywhere now and getting more adventurous as far as moving from room to room and following Hudson around.  He gets into the dog dishes now so we have to keep those put away.  Especially the water dish.  He loves to play in water!  He is pulling himself up to his knees, but not to his feet yet.  Although he can stand up a little bit now (holding on to the couch or table or your hands). 

He still just has two bottom teeth but we think there's some more coming in.  We are hoping that accounts for all the waking up at night and the disgusting, nasty diapers we have had to clean lately.  (Cloth diapering at its worst - yuck!).  He was doing so good sleeping until about 2-3 weeks ago.  He was sleeping 12-13 hours straight at night.  I just stopped going in to feed him unless it was after 4 am and after a few weeks he wasn't waking up at all anymore and sleeping till 7 or 8 am.  But the teething has messed with that and he is up once or twice a night now.  Although I still try to stick by the not going in till after 4 am...unless he's screaming!

The worst thing about the sleeping is that I am on a "work blitz" right now.  Meaning I am going to get caught up with the clinic stuff by November 1st - no "ifs", "ands" or "buts" about it.  So I'm working 5-6 hours a night doing that, go to bed around 2 or 3, and then Tate is up usually within half an hour of me getting to sleep.  UGH!  But I refuse to have it hanging over my head anymore.  I don't want to feel guilty staying up late to work on Tate's party stuff and other fun projects I want to do when I know there's a pile of work in the office I should be doing instead.  So it will be done.  I started last Thursday night and have already finished 6 months of it (averages about 4 hours of work per month that I need to get caught up on).  So I have August and September left to do, then by that time October will be over and I'll have to get it done.  Plus keeping up with the daily billing and other work.  Then the weight will be lifted off my shoulders!  Whew!