9 and 10 months

You are growing up so much and so fast! I love every new stage that you go through but if I could freeze time and keep you little for just a little bit longer I would in a heartbeat. I love being your favorite person, the person that you seek out when you are scared, nervous, tired or hungry. I love being that important person in your life and as Bryce, Caleb and Abby get bigger I realize that I am not going to be that important person forever. I will forever be mom but at some point I am no longer cool and you don't choose to hang out with me.

 

You are now eating mainly finger foods. You are very independent and like to feed yourself. We make any meal finger food so we don't have to fight with you about us feeding you with a spoon. You love food and if you aren't eating you like to beg food from other people that are eating. Your favorites are oranges, turkey, and macaroni. You also still nurse every 4 hours or so when I am with you and you take a bottle well at daycare.

You hate your car seat and arch when we try to put you in it. You also almost refuse to wear your hat no matter how cold it is out.

You have mastered the stairs and Love to sneak up the stairs. Any time that the gate gets left open you make a beeline for the steps. You also love to take stuff out of the dishwasher and stand by it while I try to load it. You are a disaster when I am trying to clean the kitchen. You can pull yourself up to stand on almost everything and are starting to get pretty fast at cruising around the furniture.

You haven't made any attempts at walking yet but you like using the walker to go all over the place.

Your favorite toy right now is Abby's kitchen set. You take dishes in and out of the draws all day long.

You have finally gotten a little easier to give a bath to. You like playing in the tub now and have stopped trying to stand up and climb out all the time. Daddy usually gives you a bath because he likes to make sure that you do plenty of splashing so that you learn to love the water early. We did have our first pooping in the bathtub incident. Abby was in the tub with you and quickly got out. Luckily she is pretty tolerant of you and wasn't mad. She thought it was pretty hilarious actually.

I love that you have found your voice! You can say Hi, Bye and wave. You also like to scream after I get done yelling at the big kids. It is sometimes eye opening what you think I sound like. You say mama, baba, pupee and dad is waiting patiently for you to say Da da.

You are wearing size 12 month clothes and weigh about 24 lbs. Your hair is getting long enough that we can put it in little pig tails or horns (as your dad calls thems). You still just have your bottom 2 little teeth and you don't seem to be getting any new ones just yet. You are still a bad sleeper and have probably only slept through the night less than 5 times your entire life. You like to be fed to sleep and then we oh so gently put you in your crib. Sometimes we have to repeat this step multiple times. You then sleep in your crib until 2-3am and then you want to eat. You will then sleep with us until 6-7am when you are up to eat again.