11 Months

Will turned 11 months yesterday. He is as busy as ever and I love it. Lately when Joe or I (especially Joe) start laughing, Will will start a forced laugh to laugh with us, it is so cute. Here are some 11 month pictures.






Will has been taking steps for awhile, but this last week he has seemed to have figured it out. Here are a couple of videos. The first one is from April 14. The second one is from today.





Some things that Will has been up to this month:

- walking
- uses a sippy cup
- stopped using a bottle
- babbling and saying mama and dada more
- got a new tooth (eight total)
- looks at books by himself
- has some stranger anxiety
- loves to play outside
- likes to laugh with mom and dad

Chart and Bags

Several months ago I saw some growth charts on etsy. I got a little nostalgic about when I was young and how my mom marked my height on the wall paper. I loved to see how I had grown. So I decided to make my own for Will. Well after SEVERAL breaks from the project I finished. HURRAY. I wanted to be able to mark every year on there so I finished it just in time because his birthday is in a month





Like most of my projects, it ended up not being as simple as I thought, but it would have been WAY easier if I had picked different paper or maybe found some wrapping paper that I liked, oh well maybe I will try again eventually. Plus I realized that I am not the best at modge podge, any tips on how to get the bubbles out of the paper?

A really simple project that I made is a bag to hold Will's bath toys. Even though it was easy it has been so helpful and now Will's toys are not taking over my bathroom. I found the idea here



The last project that I have done is a purse and I am pretty excited how it turned out. I used the McCall's pattern 6045.





Here is the inside of the purse, there are some pocket in there but it is hard to see.