11 months old!

Jacen is now 11 months old. He weighs over 28 lbs (which leads me to believe that last month's weight was wrong, or this month's weight is wrong, but that's what my scale said!), and measures a bit over 30 1/2 inches long. He now cruises along furniture and actually learned how to crawl like a real baby! But he still goes back and forth between army and regular crawling. He's also gotten very good at rearranging DVD's as you can see in the background of the first picture haha. That's his favorite pass time- mostly because he now likes to watch things fall and because he's getting bored of his toys. As far as food goes, he's eating less from the jars of food and more of what we eat. He loves everything we give him, and never makes a fuss- and never has, really. He's also about to pop a top tooth any day now. He makes kissy noises (especially at girl babies!) and does this cute thing where he brings his hands up to his mouth and waves at us with them. It's so fun! One fun this he's learned to do just in the past couple of days is point to the right person in a family picture. We say "Where's mama?" and he points to me, or we say "Where's dada?" or "Where's baby Jacen?" and he points to Elijah or the baby, respectively. And if he gets them all right we say "Yay!!" and he claps. So funny!
He'll be 1 year old in the next month, and here are a few things we'll be doing for this big transition:
- Wean him off his bottle and switch to a sippy cup, which he already drinks out of for meals, but now we have to do it for milk;
- Wean him off of formula and switch to whole milk. That should take a couple of weeks;
- Begin introducing him to potty training, as well as switching him from disposable diapers to cloth diapers once he turns 1.
So as you can see we have a lot to do in the next month or so! We still can't believe he's almost one. It seemed just like yesterday when he was born....