A few things about your 10th month...
- I gave birth to a weed. Seriously you are growing WAY too fast! We look at pictures from a few months back and WOAH! That's not even the same kid is it? Then we recognize your baby blues and very natural combover...
- You are still wearing a size 3 diaper (and will be for a long time). Clothes, however, vary in size. You are currently wearing anything from 9 months to 12 months. Very few pants fit. OshGosh has the adjustable tab waist and is the only brand that fits around your skinny belly. At your 9 month check up you weighed 18lbs 7 oz (20th percentile).
- Despite your slender figure you eat anything and everything. Your dad and I are convinced you have a tapeworm (and honestly would love for you to share). We feed you table food now, practicing picking up as much as possible. Jack, you have mastered the pick up, just not the rationing it out. Daddy and I have to remind you that 20 Cheerios in the mouth probably won't have the result you are looking for! "Slow and steady"...definitely not your motto.
- You are a parrot. Mimicking everything we do or say. Consequently, we say and do some really funny stuff. It's not uncommon to hear us ask you "How big is Jack", throw our hands up in the air and respond, "SO BIG" as you reach for the sky. In your head I'm sure you are saying Santa says HOHOHO, a dog goes woof, a horn says HONK so lay off me people! Can't you see I'm trying to shovel Cheerios in my mouth, not do tricks!!
- Walking is in our VERY near future. You've mastered pulling up, walking around objects, and pushing your car. Every once in a while you take a "shuffle step" to get from the coffee table to my leg, or the couch, or so on. I'm not calling it walking yet, but you sure are close. We definitely need baby gates...and get them up.
- Crawling is one of your favorite modes of transportation. Second only to being carried. You. love. contact. Snuggling, being held, carried, you name it you like it. for months now you let us know when you want up. Throw your arms in the air and stare at us with those baby blues. And man you can work it. Those eyes are going to melt hearts someday...right now they melt ours.
- Napping. Awful. I hate thinking about it and you hate taking them...unless you can do it on me or dad, or Grandma. Again, back to the whole snuggling thing. The doctor says you are smart and playing us like a fiddle. I agree, but it still breaks my heart to hear you scream in your crib. Nights are a different story (FINALLY)!! You sleep from 8PM-6:30AM, like clockwork. HOORAY! I think you are the world's EASIEST baby to put to bed too.
- 5 teeth and you know how to use them. You bite. Everything. We are trying to remind you, no biting. Like everything you do, it is so stinking cute though. Good thing you don't go to preschool, I don't think I could handle getting kicked out. (I think you are just testing the waters and it feels good on those sore little gums)
- Speaking of testing the waters...you definitely know right from wrong. In fact I believe you are going to think your name is Jack NO! Lately before you do something you know is wrong you take a look over your shoulder to see if we are watching or not. We are. Trust me. Remember that.
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| We had to give you a distraction... |
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| ...because you wouldn't stay still MUST.LOOK.OUT.WINDOW. |
