This months letter is VERY long. It's been a big month and he's done lots of new things that have to be included. Dom turned 11 months on August 3rd
Weight
Birth: 7 lbs 13 oz
3 months: 16.4 lbs
6 months: 19.5 lbs (weighed at home)/actual 18.6 (at the doctors)
11 months: 22-23 lbs (rough estimate)
Length
Birth: 22 in
3 months: 24.5 in
6 months: 26.75 in
11 months: 28.5 in
Size 4
Clothes
Clothes
12 months and some 18 months
Eating
You eat 3 meals a day and get 2-3 snacks a day. You also 3 sippy cups of whole milk throughout the day, as much water as you are interested in and you are still breastfed in the morning and at night.
You still sleep through the night. You go to bed at 8 and have had to wake up at 530 since Momma has been going to work earlier. On the weekends you'll sleep in until 7ish.
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| how big is Dominick? So big! |
Likes
Swimming
Blocks
Sliding down the big slides
Walking
Chasing Calli and Rocky
Bath time
The Playground
The water table
Blocks
Sliding down the big slides
Walking
Chasing Calli and Rocky
Bath time
The Playground
The water table
Howard - the oversized stuff dog
Walking with your push toy
Your momma
Playing with your daddy
Your momma
Playing with your daddy
Calli and Rocky
"Talking" on the phone
"Talking" on the phone
Eating
Going for Walks
Cords
The vacuum
Being put into your carseat
Getting dressed
Changing your diaper
Getting out of the bath
Being woke up
Being woke up
Being told no or not getting your way
Being tired
Momma walking out of the room
Momma walking out of the room
Dominick,
This month has been such a big one for you. You've hit a lot of milestones and we notice you growing, changing and learning something new every single day. You are definitely starting to look like a little boy instead of a baby and while it makes me sad I find you more and more handsome with every passing day. I miss your rolls in your rolls and baby squishiness, but I often look at you and am mesmerized by your pure beauty...inside and out.
You celebrated your first 4th of July and you fell asleep for the fireworks. I was hoping you would be awake because I think you would have loved them. Next year for sure! On the 5th we headed to San Diego for the weekend and you had such a great time. We went to Coronado Island, the San Diego Zoo, Pt Loma and spent time together as a family (post to come soon). During that trip we would say "yay" or "woohoo" to you and you would scream like you didn't like it. It was quite comical, but since then you've started to clap and will occasionally scream. On July 6th you started to clap when we would praise you and you will also clap when we sing pat-a-cake or when you're happy and you know it you will clap your hands. You also will mimic us and it's so funny. If we stretch, you will too, laugh, you will do this great big fake belly laugh (like you just want to be involved in something funny), if we cough, yup you're doing it right there with us. Anything we do you try to do as well. On July 10th you started doing "SO BIG" and you raise your hands in the air if asked how big you are. It's pretty darn cute! When we give you an option between items you will point and sometimes will say this (dis). You also started to be an official walker sometime in the middle of the month. It was like one day you were standing and taking a few steps and then the next you were walking from one room to another, down the hall and chasing the dogs.
This month you've really started saying many more words and that has been so fun and challenging for your daddy and I. We talk to you a LOT and we try to get you to mimic us or to repeat us. Sometimes you do and sometimes you just look at us like we are crazy. The words we have no doubt that you say and will say all the time are dadda (might be your favorite word), momma, dog, bye, ball (bye and ball sound a lot alike, "ba", but you say bye when waving and sound like a little redneck and ball when playing so it's easy to distinguish), no and Papa. Like I said sometimes you will say this, key and truck and you will sometimes repeat Gigi (Didi).
You cry in the mornings when I drop you off at daycare and it makes it really tough. I think part of it is that you're still tired and part of it is that you don't want me to leave. After I leave you are fine, but it's still sad for both of us. You also are starting to do more and more stranger danger. You will turn and cling onto us if you do not know someone or don't want to go to someone.
You really, really love Travis, Mrs. Lauren, Mrs. Tina, and Mrs. Katie (your daycare provider). We are certain that Travis might be your favorite person behind Momma and Daddy. You will actually reach for him whenever he's around and you think he's funnier than all get out. He will just be talking and you will just laugh and smile.
There is one toy that you are absolutely deathly afraid of. It's a ball that has elmo on one side and cookie monster on the other. It vibrates and each character says something depending on which side is pushed. You HATE it. When you were smaller you would shake whenever it was played, but you got over it and didn't love it, but weren't scared of it. I thought you might like it now that you are older so I pulled it out for you and you were basically jumping out of your skin. You were in my arms, screaming and SO scared of it. Every time you saw it you literally broke down in tears. It was so sad and I'm honestly not sure what part of it makes you so scared, but it's sad (and kind of funny too).
If you don't want something you will throw it or if we are trying to give it to you you will try to hit it out of our hands and say no (you started saying no along with the actions above on the 28th so it's a fairly new "trick" that you do). Also if you don't want us to put you down or if you are upset you will arch your back and kick or push away from us (depending on what it is that you aren't happy about). If you see something that interests you or that you want you will point to it and will sometimes say "dis".
You are able to get into EVERYTHING. You love to stand in the kitchen and open and close the drawers. You will do that for a VERY long time. You also love to open the cupboards and close them. We don't mind most of the drawers, but there are 2 that we do not want you getting into. Same with the bathrooms, you do the same for both. You also have learned to flush the toilet and you think that's pretty darn cool. In your bedroom you will pull open your drawers and then close them again. I'm not sure why it's so entertaining to you, but boy do you love to do that!
You will also sit and "throw/roll" the ball back and forth to us. You really think that's a good time. You also love to play with your blocks and will put them in the strangest places. You have put them in your gumball machine and one night when we were cleaning up your daddy thought one might have been stuck in there...he was able to get it out. Gigi also bought you a set of Little Einsteins tiny board books before you were born. You love to take those around with you and will look at them and chew on them. You will pull all of your books off the shelves and just look at them. As soon as we try to read them to you you do NOT like that so we try every night, but most of the time is unsuccessful. We would get very frustrated, but you were too so it was a lose-lose situation and nobody ended up happy. You sleep with two loveys, a dog taggy "blanket" thing named Buddy and Snugalug, your bear from Gigi. Snugs is your favorite and you wrap your little arms around him and hug him every chance you get. If we sing Taio Cruz's some Dynamite to you you will dance...or if you hear any music you will dance. And you love for us to sing you songs. We sing a lot of pat-a-cake, the wheels on the bus, the itsy bitsy spider and a few others. In the evenings whenever you hear your bath being run you come into the bathroom and kind of "jump up and down" without actually getting off your feet until we undress you and put you in. You love bath time and most of the time you do NOT like getting out, but are getting better with not throwing fits.
We really don't let you watch much TV, but sometimes on the weekends you get to watch Elmo, Veggie Tales or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. You will watch for 10-15 minutes and that's about it. TV just doesn't interest you and I'm not going to lie, it doesn't hurt my feelings in the least bit since there are so many other fun and or engaging things we could be doing instead. With that said, sometimes 30 minutes of quiet time would be nice here and there. You are just too active for that.
You cry in the mornings when I drop you off at daycare and it makes it really tough. I think part of it is that you're still tired and part of it is that you don't want me to leave. After I leave you are fine, but it's still sad for both of us. You also are starting to do more and more stranger danger. You will turn and cling onto us if you do not know someone or don't want to go to someone.
You really, really love Travis, Mrs. Lauren, Mrs. Tina, and Mrs. Katie (your daycare provider). We are certain that Travis might be your favorite person behind Momma and Daddy. You will actually reach for him whenever he's around and you think he's funnier than all get out. He will just be talking and you will just laugh and smile.
If you don't want something you will throw it or if we are trying to give it to you you will try to hit it out of our hands and say no (you started saying no along with the actions above on the 28th so it's a fairly new "trick" that you do). Also if you don't want us to put you down or if you are upset you will arch your back and kick or push away from us (depending on what it is that you aren't happy about). If you see something that interests you or that you want you will point to it and will sometimes say "dis".
You are able to get into EVERYTHING. You love to stand in the kitchen and open and close the drawers. You will do that for a VERY long time. You also love to open the cupboards and close them. We don't mind most of the drawers, but there are 2 that we do not want you getting into. Same with the bathrooms, you do the same for both. You also have learned to flush the toilet and you think that's pretty darn cool. In your bedroom you will pull open your drawers and then close them again. I'm not sure why it's so entertaining to you, but boy do you love to do that!
We really don't let you watch much TV, but sometimes on the weekends you get to watch Elmo, Veggie Tales or Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. You will watch for 10-15 minutes and that's about it. TV just doesn't interest you and I'm not going to lie, it doesn't hurt my feelings in the least bit since there are so many other fun and or engaging things we could be doing instead. With that said, sometimes 30 minutes of quiet time would be nice here and there. You are just too active for that.
Like I said above you eat 3 meals a day and you are such a great eater. Your daddy and I are always surprised by how much you eat and you totally impress other people as well. If we go out to eat we will normally order you a meal of your own, but we will sometimes just give you some of ours if we don't like the choices on the children's menu. We've also started giving you a spoon to use at dinner and sometimes you will pick it up and put it in your mouth and others you will just play with it or just use your hands. You use a playtex insulator sippy cuppy and you seem to like that one the best. It's funny the amount of cups that we've bought for you to find the "perfect" one. You will drink water or milk from this.
You are still in swim class and have been for a while. You still go once a week and its such a big time for you. You truly have so much fun and are becoming such a good little "swimmer" you can go under water, blow bubbles, and aren't drinking nearly as much water anymore.
I've said this numerous times that I am in love with every stage that you are in, but this is by far my favorite. It's surpassed every other stage by miles. I love that your personality is so big and the little boy that you are. This time in your little life is SO fun and I am totally in love with this stage of life. You seem so much more grown up than what you are and I just want to keep you little right now.
Dominick you are one stubborn, strong willed, opinionated, happy, loving, sweet, comical little boy. You make me so proud to be your momma and sometimes I wish I could just stop time and keep you this little guy for many moons, but I truly cannot wait to see what God has in store for your and watch your story play out. I am confident that you will do great things in your life and I can't wait to see all that you accomplish. Next month you will turn 1 and while it kind of hurts my heart it's such a big event that I'm so excited to celebrate with you. I know that I was MADE to be your momma and that you were meant to be mine and your daddy's. You are so loved little guy and I hope you always know that. My love for your grows and grows.
I love you to the moon and back,
Momma
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