Month 11

Dear Ransom,

I cannot believe you've gotten so big! Sometimes I look at you crawling around ( you have mastered the "real" crawl for a while now) and pulling yourself up on things and I can hardly believe you're the same little baby who joined our lives last August. Don't worry, though, you are still my little baby and I try to get as many cuddles out of you as I can.
I think that now that it is more of a challenge to get you to cuddle with me, I find that I want your cuddles EVEN MORE. hehe.

So, this month you went on your very first beach vacation with your Spicy and Papa, Aunt Anna, Uncle Ryan and Kilsyth ( and of course Mommy and Daddy). You loooved the beach-mostly the splashing and the getting sand ALL over your body, but you also didn't mind the waves too much ( as long as they didn't get too big) and the taste of salt that would get on your face with all your splashing. Of course, a week with family made you one little spoiled boy and you were not particularly happy to be home with just your Mommy for entertainment, but lucky for you we had MORE visitors coming!

This month you also perfected your pointing skills and you now point at just about everything and usually say, "oh!" along with it to make whatever point you're trying to make.
Right now your favorite foods are still waffles, but you've also added turkey lunch meat and cubes of cheese to the favs list and you stuff your face with those almost as fast as those good ol' fashion carbs.
And you like to babble on and on about all sorts of topics. This month your Mommy has also been trying to train you to "Come!" on command and you've gotten pretty good at it! Most of the time you start crawling very fast towards Mommy, laughing all the way! I think you think that we're playing a game!
All in all you are pretty good about obeying, though you do still try to open most of the cabinets in the kitchen even though you get in trouble every time. You also do NOT enjoy playpen time, which Mommy is not very good about making you stay in! You are currently only doing about 15 minutes a day in the mornings before she gives into your crying and lets you out! I guess I'm not THAT tough of a Mommy! :-)

As I mentioned earlier we had some guests this month too, Mommy's friends Christa and Esther came to visit from Texas and you loved, loved, LOVED the added attention. No matter where we went you could hardly let out a whimper before someone was there to make you giggle.

You celebrated your first fourth of July, which you spent with your friend Elizabeth and a baby sitter ( Mommy and Daddy wanted to stay up and see the fireworks!), you obviously had fun because Elizabeth taught you how to crawl while holding blocks in both hands ( what a great loud banging sound it makes!).

This month you've also enjoyed going to the on post pool with Mommy and friends, because, anywhere were you can splash water ( including the bathtub) you one happy boy! In fact, every time see Mommy turning on the water in the bathtub for your bath, you pull up and start squealing and dancing around! You are SO excited to get in and start playing with your bathtoys! What a far cry from your early days when you HATED bath time! I'm so glad that things have changed.

So many things have changed, and yet one thing remains the same, you are still such a joy to our lives and you make every day interesting! Your Daddy and I love you so very much!
Mommy