fun at Panera

Lewis turned 11 months-old on Monday! He woke up from his morning nap and had visitors. Grandma and Grandpa Reitmeyer came to visit and took us all to Panera Bread for lunch. It was fantastic. Lewis had a good time eating puffs and throwing his ring of keys on the floor. It became a fun game to see how many times Grandpa would pick them up for him. We all lost count. :) Lewis sure loves waking up to find some visitors waiting to see him.

He is enjoying standing these days. There are lots of times when he absolutely refuses to sit down. He is enjoying his walking toy more too. The last week or so he has started playing a lot with two toys: a ring stacking toy and a shape sorting toy. The shape sorting toy has an optional lid that he is not using (where he has to put the triangle through the triangle shaped hole etc.), but he loves putting all the shapes into the container with the lid off. He does really well stacking the rings too, and gets really proud of himself when he gets them all done.

He tried meat this week for the first time as well. We got him some of those chicken meat sticks. He likes mashing them in his hands so we have mashed them into some veggies to get more of them down. He seems to like the flavor pretty well. He's working on his second tooth so his mood is all over the place, but he remains a pretty contented boy most of the time.