You're 10 Months!

How did this last month go so fast? I SWEAR you just turned 9 months!

You are one BUSY BEE. You hardly let us hold you for longer than 10 seconds anymore before you want down to crawl or walk holding on to furniture. Lately though, you've been going through a little more of a "hold me" phase, even if it is just for 10 seconds. You come get your hugs and then you're off!

Last night you took your first step all by yourself!!!!!!! You promptly sat down right after you took your step, but we were SOOOOO EXCITED! Both your dad and I were there to see it too! You are so close!

You are a CLIMBER!! We call you our little daredevil. If it's short enough for you to get on it, you'll climb it. Your favorite thing to crawl over is your daddy. He will lay on his stomach and you'll go from his head (climbing up on his back from his shoulders) all the way down to his feet before you climb off. You do it to us both. You did some minor face plants a couple of times before you realized you had the strength to slide down with your hands first to catch your head from hitting the ground. One of your favorite things is climbing the stairs. You go straight to the top (especially if Sam is up there waiting for you).

You are getting more and more vocal. You LOVE talking and "singing" to yourself. You've also started saying "mom mom ma ma" (in a sweet little voice) when you want something from me (you know it makes my LIFE when you do it and can pretty much get anything when you do it). That's a new thing you just started and I can't get enough of it!

Recap of what you're up to:

- Climbing - as I said before, you climb anything small enough to climb

- Singing - I need to get a video of you doing it. You sing a high pitched note and then you hum, high pitched, hum and on and on you go

- Clicking - You like to click your tongue. You LOVE it when we click with you.

- Standing – You've been standing more and more everyday. Each day you stand for longer. You actually took tried to take your first step the night before your 10 month bday!

- Swimming – You still love swim class. You are the best "jumper" in the class. You are so good at sitting on the side of the pool and jumping to me on the count of three (sometimes it takes a few rounds of counting to three. haha)

- Nose - one of your favorite tricks is pointing out people's (and the dog's) nose. Now we need to work on eyes, mouth and ears!

- Stairs - you use to climb the stairs with your right knee up and then the left foot would go on the same stair and you'd take a little break before the right knee went up again. Now you do right knee and then the left knee on the next stair. No breaks. You FLY now. Just need to work on teaching you how to go down! You're somewhat of a diver. No bueno! lol

- One of your new favorite games is to roll a ball or round toy on the hardwood floor ahead of you and then you chase it. It's like the baby version of fetch! haha. You roll it ahead and sprint crawl up to it to only roll it again! You keep yourself busy for long periods of time doing that.

- You've started "flirting" with people out and about again. A month or so ago you'd get shy and smile and hide your face. Now you like to smile and stare back at people who talk to you. You're also really fun to have out and about. You're a great errands buddy. You just go wherever I go without a problem! I will say though, that you are getting a little harder to take grocery shopping as you love to try and grab cans of food off the shelves and they fall all over the place. That was funny though. I just have to get better at cart placement when I stop!

We love you!