Happy 11 months Sebastian!!!

Today we celebrated Sebastian's 11 month birthday by going out to brunch at Relish, a lovely restaurant up the road from our house, followed by a shopping trip to Future Shop where I picked up The Tick Season 2 for myself and Jamie purchased the dvd Sin City for himself to celebrate our son's day. =)

This past month has been marked with a lot of change for Sebastian. He is moving non-stop and his teeth have finally decided to come in (his second has just broken through!). Sebastian loves to sing and dance and one of his favourite activities at the moment is standing up by the fridge and playing with his Leap Frog Alphabet. He will often attempt to sign the letters of the alphabet along with me while we sing our ABC's. Sebastian has also just started to sign the words for "more" and "milk" and whenever he hears a dog bark he says what sounds like "dog". I say that it sounds like he's saying dog only because the "g" is never quite pronounced, so we're just assuming that he's trying to say dog as he always makes the same sound after we see and/or hear a dog!

Another thing that Sebastian loves to do is stand at the front door and yell/sing at whomever and whatever is passing by. As a result, Joseph, the shopkeeper from across the street, will often come out of his (in)convenient store and wave to Sebastian. I don't know what it is about Joseph, but Sebastian breaks into big grins and giggles whenever he sees him! It's actually quite sweet. Sebastian has also evoked waves from people on the bus that stops directly across the street as well with his antics. We're so lucky to have such a social butterfly!

We've also noticed that Sebastian likes to switch up how he moves around. For example, depending on the surface he is on he will either commando crawl, crawl or do the crab walk (where only his feet and hands touch the ground). We noticed the crab walk for the first time last weekend while we were in Binbrook celebrating our cousin's birthdays. The grass was quite parched and Sebastian would not put his knees down so he ended up moving about on his feet and hands. At home, depending on where he is, he will either crawl or commando crawl. Most times he will crawl while on the carpet but on the hardwood floor he will commando. If he's wearing pants, then he will crawl. It's actually quite amusing to watch him switch from commando to crawling and vice versa without a pause! I don't even think he realizes what he is doing!

Sebastian also had his first haircut this past month. I actually just snipped the "wings" from the back of his head last weekend so it wasn't anything too fancy but it was monumental all the same. I'm just glad that I didn't hurt him in the process, and that it is not noticeable that a parent cut his hair!

I could go on and on talking about Sebastian, but I won't. At least not anymore today. =) I still can't believe that there is only one more month left until he turns one, but I'm not going to talk about that now... I'm still looking for the pause button!

Hope all is well,
Kim