Eleven month update (a bit belated)

At eleven months, Milo has become a pointer. Generally, we tell him the name of the thing he's pointing at. "That's Mommy, Milo." "That's the light again, Milo." "That's the outside world." He spent a solid two or three weeks of month ten not feeling well: stomach flu, ear infection, still ear infection, diarrhea from the antibiotics - but he seems fine now. His appetite's certainly come back strong; he's very interested in anything we're eating. Tonight, in addition to baby food style sweet potatoes, he had some cheese, toast with hummus, pear, and a couple of bites of taco.

For a while it seemed like he had finally learned a trick we could show off to people: we could ask him where our noses were and he would identify them, but when we took the show on the road, so to speak, it fizzled. I think we may have confused him by trying to teach him 'mouth'.