We've entered the double digit months...hopefully I won't be one of those people that is still counting in months when he's 48 months old...when do you stop saying months and start just saying year anyway?
You're having a little rough patch in the health department during this first week of your 10th month. The doctor confirmed today that you are having your 2nd round of Pink Eye, a mild upper respiratory infection (though your chest sounds clear, thank goodness) and you're also in the process of cutting 3-4 more teeth. Poor baby :( Let's hope you're better in a few days when Mommy & Daddy are supposed to have a night away at the Mirror Lake Inn - we could really use it!
At 10 months old you are...
Weighing 20lbs 13oz and measuring 28.5"
Sleeping solidly - you go to bed around 7:30 and sleep until 6 or 6:30 (other than the times that you're having pink eye in combination with a cold). You nap twice a day now, usually around 9:30 and 1:30, one of those is usually ~2hrs, the other ~1hr.
Eating a ton - you are trying all types of food, eating what we're eating and enjoying MOST of it. You even had flounder this weekend and seemed to like it! You LOVE bread, anything made with bread-like consistency (pizza crust, waffles, pancakes) and those are pretty much the only things you'll eat with your own hands. Everything else you more or less demand we feed you from a fork/spoon. You still get 4 bottles a day and you still seem to like them.
Drinking water like it's your job. We give you a sippy cup of water after every meal and you'd think you won the lottery. You get SO excited about it, it makes us laugh everytime. Sometimes we'll gently take it from you and give it back to you so we can see how excited you get :)
Teething like every other 10 month old out there. You have 6 teeth fully cut through, 4 on top, 2 on bottom and at least 3 more making their way. (1 on top, 2 on bottom)
Making your way around through a combination of army shuffling, scooting & lots of rolling. Today you even crawled a few feet. We're feeling kind of frustrated baffled at your lack of connecting the fact that you're feet/legs can help you get around. In due time I'm sure, but get on with it already.
Laughing at all sorts of things and smiling at anyone that catches your eye - especially Buster. Throwing your arms up in the air when we say "YAYYY!", which means we say yay a LOT in this house lately. Love to ride around the house on your car with your little hands holding on to the handlebars so carefully, only removing them every once in a while to start the music again. Playing with the Learning Home (thanks Aunt Kristina for that hand me down!). Reading Little Blue Truck books multiple times a day (Mommy has the city one memorized)
Giving us reasons to smile all of the time. Thank you for showing us that our hearts can in fact continue to fill up with love more and more every day. We love you buddy.
You woke up last night around 10:15pm - just as we were getting ready to head to bed, which isn't normal for you. Daddy went in to snuggle you, put you back down and just a few mins later you were up again, so it was my turn. I tried getting some Orajel in your mouth, figuring it must be teeth the way you were ferociously sucking on your fingers (more than normal) and grunting - though you refused to open your mouth for me. It's challenging enough to try to tell how much came out of the tube while in the dark, then you were refusing it - stinker. In between our back and forth attempts to comfort you, you would fall back asleep on me and ever so gently stroke my hair or collar bone. It's the sweet moments like this that make all of the more challenging moments worth it. The feeling of your little fingers and the warmth of your breathe just fills my heart so much, just want you to know how much I love you buddy!
We haven't been overly anxious for you to start moving, simply for the fact that it would make our lives more difficult (selfish, maybe - but honest.) until lately... You're starting to get more annoyed with the fact that you can see something and can't get to it quickly enough. You're great at rolling around and army scooting yourself to something, but it's not an exact science for you and not very efficient - we like efficiency in this house! If you realize that something is across the room, you'll first look to us and put your arms up so we'll pick you up, then try to nose dive towards whatever it is that you want while we're holding you. Or you sit where you are and cry/whine - which is a really unpleasant sound. You're still cute as can be, but that sound is far from cute! You're not grasping the concept of using your legs to get you somewhere, you LOVE to use your legs to clap your feet together, kick and make noise with toys, just not to mobilize. Just like I recall saying with solids when you were refusing that transition, I'm sure a few months from now this frustration will be a dim memory and I'll be cursing the day I ever wish you would move as I'm chasing you around the house trying to prevent you from injuring yourself (yes I just got back from a night with Lucas who was climbing the little tykes table without using any chairs and carrying his lawnmower on top of the table with him.).
So after venting some frustration earlier today, I took a deep breath, reminded myself that you'll do things when you're darn ready (not when a book says you should or when the neighbor's baby did or when your mom/dad, cousin, aunt/uncle, whoever did) & picked you up when you put your arms up to me and kissed you on the cheek - I know that won't last forever and I'd be lying if I said it didn't melt my heart everytime you did it. Man those cheeks are kissable!!
