Garrett is 11 months old...and more!

We've seen quite a few deer and rabbits in our yard lately and the boys just love to watch them.

Garrett has always been our little snuggling ostrich and loves to bury his face in your arms when he sleeps.  When I found Daddy and Garrett snuggling in for a little nap, I had to get a picture!

We went to a Carroll basketball game last weekend and Bryant was so excited to get to hang out with his cousins.  When we went to dinner, he had gotten three suckers and told Travis and I that we couldn't have them and he was going to eat all three.  When he asked for them at the game, I told him he either had to wait to eat it or share them with his cousins.  He promptly chose to share and he looked so happy when he gave the suckers to his cousins.  I didn't really pay attention until I downloaded the pictures, but it looks like Bryant is actually taller than Reagan, who is a whole year older!

Garrett had fun too!

The cousins had a sleepover at our house the next night.  Bryant hasn't been sleeping very well at night lately and always wants someone to come sleep with him.  I was more than happy to have the cousins come sleep over because someone else could keep him company at night!  I loved watching them play together...even Garrett was playing with them:)

The kids slept so well in the theater room!

Garrett woke up in the middle of the night so we brought him into our room and he apparently wanted to use Mocha as a pillow.  And yes, Mocha is in diapers...poor thing isn't doing so well and the cold weather is probably making things worse.

Our big boy likes to hold his own bottle now.

Bryant has been really into experiments or as he says 'spearments'.  In this picture, he got to see what happens when you add vinegar to baking soda and we also built a lava lamp.

Garrett is getting closer to showing interest in walking.  But he still likes to jump when his feet first touch the ground...maybe that's his version of the roadrunner in the cartoons!

He loves to play with his brother and Bryant really wanted to take Garrett for a ride...

I can't believe Garrett is 11 months old!  It didn't seem like that long ago that I was out on maternity leave with him.  This past month has flown by and he does more big kid stuff every day.  He likes to do high fives and loves to feed himself.  We allowed for him to just eat the regular menu at daycare instead of baby food and daycare said he loves it.  They had coffee cake for snack the other day and he had 3 servings!  This morning he got blueberry pancakes and I'm pretty sure he ate more than Bryant...and Bryant had 2 big pancakes...

He also had another tooth pop in over a week ago, so you can see all 5 of his little teeth pretty good in this picture

He's been practicing walking so much; I think once he gets the confidence to try without holding on to something, he's going to take off walking and never look back!

Bryant was helping him and walking next to him.  Although Bryant doesn't always want to play with Garrett (because he wrecks whatever he has set up), I absolutely love how much they love each other.  Last night Bryant was pretending to prepare invitations for his friends, so he wrote all over sticky notes and put them in envelopes.  He invited Garrett and Garrett's friend Jon-Jon from school.  When he read Garrett's invitation to him he said "I love you Garrett.  You are invited to my birthday party".  Absolutely melted my heart!