11 Months, and a very important question

Well, this post is a week late, but better late than never, right? And the post is a week late and the pictures were taken a few days prior to his actual 11 month mark. And it happened to be a much happier time in Sammy's life. Before the teething, before the ear infection, before all the pain--when he was himself. He's still not himself, and no, he still hasn't cut those teeth. It's gotta be tomorrow, right? Right??? I've been saying that every day for a week. So let's hope I'm right this time.
So, a few things I want to record about Sam at 11 months:

He is cruising around more and more--walking along the furniture and moving from item to item. But I still don't think he'll walk any time real soon. He hasn't shown any desire to walk with us holding our hands or let go of anything and stand on his own. And he has no problems getting where he needs to go by crawling, so this is totally fine by me. :)

He has tan lines from his "rolls" on his arms and legs from all the swimming we've been doing. He doesn't look tan until you pull apart his rolls and see that they are white between them. :) You can kind of tell in the pictures.

Ever since he started crawling, he now falls asleep in the most horrible looking positions in his bed. I have to go in and reposition him shortly after he falls asleep or he wakes up crying hard (I'm guessing because his leg or arm has fallen asleep from being slept on in a strange fashion).

He loves (and I really do mean LOVES) Tyler's puppy and Curious George stuffed animals. I am envisioning some potential problems from this in our future.

He just started smacking his lips LOUD when he's eating something he really likes. He sucks his bottom lip in and just smacks away. It's very funny!

He is understanding us and responding to us a lot more. For instance, he will put his hands up over his head when we say "yay", he will give us "5", he will give me a love when I say "love Mommy" (or anyone or anything else we tell him to give a love to--Tyler, Daddy, George, puppy, etc), and he will sometimes wave bye bye and night night.

And, at 11 months, he has discovered a love for OREOS! And I'm the crazy lady who consented to this, knowing it would be a huge mess.

So, with all this talk about Oreos, I had to laugh at the way in which Sam eats his Oreo. Smashed up in his hand, trying to get every last morsel in his mouth--but most of it being saved for later on his hands, arms, bib, face, highchair, etc.
So, now this brings me the utmost important question I've asked yet. How do YOU eat your oreo? Does it look like this? Do you 'save some for later' on your face and arms? Do you have to go straight to the bath when you are finished?

Or are you like Tyler, where you pull it apart and lick the cream out of the middle? (I just noticed him doing this the other day and thought it was funny since he's never seen any of us do it.)
As for me, I will take mine double stuffed, all in one piece, with a glass of milk to dunk them in please. Mmmm, yum.

Garrett, he'll take regular or double stuffed, no milk (he thinks milk is evil), all in one piece.

One thing's for sure, though. No matter which way I eat my Oreo, I can't help but have an expression like this on my face because of their deliciousness:


And I usually have a smiliar expression to this when the Oreos are all gone:

Happy 11 Months, Sam!

So, tell me, how do YOU eat your Oreo?