11months old – Pictures and Videos

Wow…. 11months. I know I say this every month but they really do go fast. One month till their birthday!!

We have started planning the party, bought some stuff, found a cake recipe that tastes good and the boys will be allowed to eat. We’ll be having an egg and dairy free chocolate cake. It took a while to find a good recipe, but I’m very happy with how it tastes….. just hope it works on the day :)

Life is otherwise fairly good. We’ve been having some settling issues with the boys. Ethan got a new tooth (middle top right one) and he’s had a lot of pain with it, and somehow that turned into about 2 weeks of not wanting to go to sleep at night. We’re hoping things are calming down now, tonight was ok….. but last night was over an hour of hysteria….. it’s quite unpredictable. Ethan now has 3 teeth (two bottom, one top). Benny has 7 teeth (3 bottom, 4 top).

The boys are otherwise well. They are both standing and cruising (walking by holding onto furniture) all day. The love to explore the rest of the house, and have a great time when we take them into the hallway and let them go into the guest room and our bedroom.

 

Last week we gave the boys another food challenge. This time we tested foods high in amines. This included banana, pawpaw and cocoa. The boys enjoyed eating some new foods. By day 3 Ethan was miserable with his teething and Ben ended up with really bad gas pains. We’re not sure if Ben’s tummy pains are related to the amine challenge, but we stopped anyway. We figure in actual fact, we wont really give them too many amines anyway. Maybe a banana every few days and the occasional bit of cocoa. We’ll just slowly introduce salicylates and amines into their diet over the next few months. Below are pics of the boys enjoying some cocoa flavoured weetbix (got to get cocoa into them somehow during the challenge!!)

Ethan Ben

Below is a video of Sal playing peek-a-boo with Ethan in the ball pit. Ethan absolutely LOVES to play peek-a-boo….. he laughs and laughs and thinks it’s a great game! 

Ben standing by the couch

Sal reading Ethan a book

The boys LOVE the book ‘Where is the green sheep?’ Ben found it at the grocery store one day and just refused to let go…. it was pretty cheap so of course we bought it. We must have read this book over one hundred times. The boys love it!  It’s so clever, so simple. Here’s the words

Here is the blue sheep.
And here is the red sheep.
Here is the bath sheep.
And here is the bed sheep.

But where is the green sheep?

Here is the thin sheep,
and here is the wide sheep.
Here is the swing sheep.
And here is the slide sheep.

But where is the green sheep?

Here is the up sheep,
And here is the down sheep.
here is the band sheep.
And here is the clown sheep.

But where is the green sheep?

Here is the sun sheep.
And here is the rain sheep.
Here is the car sheep,
and here is the train sheep.

But where is the green sheep?

Here is the wind sheep.
And here is the wave sheep.
Here is the scared sheep,
and here is the brave sheep.

But where is the green sheep?

Here is the near sheep.
And here is the far sheep.
Here is the moon sheep.
And here is the star sheep.

But where is the green sheep?

Where IS that green sheep?

Turn the page quietly—
let’s take a peep. . . .
Here’s our green sheep—
fast asleep!

Below is a video of Sal reading it to the boys.

Benny has discovered he can bounce balls. He has a new ball (another grocery store impulse buy) that he will spend ages bouncing and chasing. Below is a video of Benny playing with his ball on the coffee table. He started bouncing in to Sal, but then discovered the box on the table would return it just as well!!!

Below are the rules of the house according to the boys. – Tracie found this at the shops and thought it summed things up nicely!