10 Months Old

Ten months old, double digits (tear). You have made the last 10 months of our lives such joy! I just want to keep you this small because I love how cuddly and kissable you are.

(Pictures in the crib are now easily confused with nap time which brings on quick tears!)

Here is what you are up to at 10 months:

• Weight: around 20 pounds
  
• Length: 28 inches
  
• Clothes: You are wearing 6-12 months clothes.
• Shoes: You wear a size 2 or 3 shoe. You still rarely wear them. A cute pair of tights does the same trick!
• Diapers: Size 4 Pampers and cloth diapers when we I am home
• Food: You are pretty easy going in the eating department. This month you have been eating more Mommy and Daddy foods like spaghetti, lasagna, potato soup, chili, and chicken noodle soup...and you love them all. You still eat some pureed foods but we are trying to get you to eat bigger soft pieces, and you seem to be taking it very well. You ate a banana again today which makes me very happy because those are so soft and easy to eat! You tried mango this month and liked it. You eat two cubes of applesauce with your cereal at breakfast. You have no troubles picking food up and putting it in your mouth now. You nurse in the morning, and have a 4 oz bottle a couples times daily, almost always breastmilk. You usually only have one bottle of formula a day which is 6 oz at bedtime. You drink water with your meals, and you are pretty good at drinking out of a cup.
• Development: This month you learned lots of new things. You started crawling, climbing stairs, and pulling yourself to a stand. And you learned all of that in the past 2 weeks! And you are a speedy crawler now too. Now that you can move, you don't stay in one place for long. You have also learned to walk behind your zebra toy. Clapping is one of your favorite things to do now. If we sing to you or say clap you know just what to do. Music is one of your favorite things and it calms you so well. You can be crying, and we will start to sing and you will stop crying and clap. 
• Words: You also love to babble. No real words yet but you can tell you are really trying.
• Sleep: You still sleep great. You go to bed at about 7:15 every night and wake up between 6:15 and 6:45 am. You take a 1 to 2 hour nap in the morning and a 30 minute to one hour nap in the afternoon (sometimes two afternoon naps). You wake up on your knees or standing in your crib now. We have moved your crib down two levels in the past month, and you are now at the lowest level.
• Teeth: Your left lower central incisor came in this month.
• What I love about you: Your personality is so great and is more apparent all the time. You make the cutest faces and noises! We just can't get enough hugs and kisses from you.I pray you stay this sweet for the rest of your life! I can't even image how boring life was before you. We just love, loving you!!