It has been a while...

I can't believe the last time I posted was back in August! So much has happened! You are now 10.5 months old. Oh, were to begin....

First, teeth...you have six teeth fully showing and a seventh and maybe eighth on the way. The seventh just broke through on the bottom the other day, but is still very small. I think you may have an eighth coming in on the bottom as well. If so, that will make four teeth on the top and four teeth on the bottom. With all of those chompers I am now pretty much exclusively pumping. It is too dangerous to continue nursing.

Nine-month well check: Here are the stats:

Height: 28 inches
Weight" 19 lbs

We were back to the pediatrician on November 8th with a bad cough and a suspected ear infection. At that point, you weighed 20 lbs, 5 oz.

On the sickness front....yes you had an ear infection. We are just finishing up your antibiotic, which you hate, and you are much better. All in all, I am pretty impressed with your immune system. We have never had to take you to the pediatrician outside of well checks until this episode. Not bad considering the amount of germs exchanged between you and your friends. You babies are all over each other!

You are crawling!

About a week before your ten month birthday you started to crawl. You were playing with your daddy on the floor in your room and all of a sudden you pushed yourself from your stomach to a sitting position. You looked so proud of yourself...no longer trapped when you fall on your stomach. By the middle of the week you were on all fours rocking back and fourth. By the end of the week you were crawling around your immediate area. You are really enjoying your new found freedom. You can get your own toys and explore at will. It is fun watching you check stuff out. However, this past weekend you wore us out! That is kind of scaring us considering you are not that fast yet. However, that didn't keep you from getting into everything and crawling off into other rooms. You also can pull yourself up onto things. You are pretty wobbly so we don't like to leave you without a spotter. You have gotten so strong though. You can walk your way around your music table by yourself and you have even let go for a few seconds. I bet you will be walking soon.

Eating:
You will eat almost anything. You love to feed yourself. In fact, it has become sort of difficult to feed you. It seems as if you are not interested in the food I am trying to offer you if you aren't able to feed it to yourself. Not so good when it is a puree...so messy! So, we are trying to be creative with finger foods. You are a champ at the pincher grasp. Sandy is bummed because you are getting so good there is hardly anything falling on the floor to her now.

We are also feeding you things from our plates. This should improve our eating habits because I wouldn't want you to eat some of the things that I am eating...that should tell me something about my eating habits? Hmmm.

Anyway, your favorite things right now are cheerios (you get really excited when we get the box out) and puffs, black beans, peas and carrots, sweet potato chunks....actually anything that can be in chunk form. You had blueberries the other day at school and you gobbled them up. Thank you for sharing your blueberries, Maren. However, I don't think Gabe gave you much of a choice.

Those are the biggest life changes as of now. Next I will update on the fun stuff, like halloween!