Eleven Months

Weights

Archer:    18lb 15oz (26th)

Andrew:  18lb 15oz (26th)

Alden:     21lb 8oz (70th)

Food
We are still taking a bottle three times a day and eating solids three times a day. Lately we have loved eating cheese and bananas, both cut up into little pieces we can feed ourselves.

Diapers

Size 3s

Clothes


Archer and Andrew: 9-12 months

Alden: 9-12 months and 12-18 months

Teeth

Archer:  6

Andrew: 8

Alden:    7

We started and ended this month with visits from special friends.

 Auntie Lauren came to Birmingham (from Louisville) for her first Alabama game, 

so Auntie Nicole came up from Tuscaloosa to have lunch with us. 

 Auntie Cortney (and Uncle Jason) brought Paige and Kate to their first Alabama game, 
so they stopped in Birmingham to hang out with us (and the Cains and Gaines families).

Cousin Knox came to play with us!

 We went to the park to swing!

We went to the library!

We helped Uncle Matt coach John Bryan's soccer game!

And we played and played and played at home.

 In the kitchen...

 Under chairs...

 in things and on top of things...

in the closet...

 on the porch...

 on our double Boppy....

in the bed...

 We woke up like this!

in our playroom...

 in our playyard...

 aren't we cute!

 We had a great Thanksgiving. Check it out here.

After Thanksgiving, we had more special visitors!

Jeremiah, Elizabeth, Jackson, and Celia

Jonathan, Karen, and Kate

Eleven Month Photos 

 

Our First Christmas

We had such a very special first Christmas and we celebrated in so many fun ways!

We met Santa. We were ok with him, but cousin Adelia was not. 

We loved eating lunch at Vestavia Country Club with Mom, Dad, Baba, Steve-O, Uncle Allen, Aunt Evalouise, and Adelia (6 adults, 4 high chairs).

We went to Zoolight Safari with Colton and his parents (Chad and Nicole). It was our first trip to the zoo, our first train ride, and our first carousel ride.

We even had Christmas fun at home opening goodies from our Advent calendar from Baba.

Like this awesome flashlight Night Before Christmas book

And of course our nativity scene - a new piece every night until Christmas

 
We celebrated with all of our families.

The Arnolds

Alden and Adelia enjoyed the wrapping!

 And Archer learned about the true meaning of Christmas!

 

 

The Ennises

  The Johnsons

 We played in and pushed around boxes all day.

 Some days we were more cooperative for pictures than others.

The Parks

 

The Gardennismiths

 

 

The family present to GG was a family photo session -
here are some highlights of the beautiful pictures. 


Santa's Visit

 Santa came to visit and he even had milk and cookies and watched Die Hard.

We loved opening and playing with our presents.


And the ribbons.

We loved playing in our tent and tunnel most of all.

 Even if Dad was a little sleepy.

And mom bought and made us try on clothes!

We had a wonderful (first) Christmas and hope you did too!