Owen 10 months

Sweet baby,

You are 10 months old!  We are very soon going to start planning your one year birthday party and I hate to admit it, but I get tears just thinking about how big you are already getting!  You have no idea how much joy you bring to our lives!

You are still crawling everywhere!  You are pulling up on everything still and you are starting to cruise while holding onto furniture!  This month, you have also begun to dance!  It is absolutely the cutest thing ever!!!!  You will be standing, crawling, or kneeling and will hear a song and will just start bouncing up and down.  I guess you had no choice but to like music!

You are starting to eat more foods like waffles or toast, cheese, and carrots. You are still taking stage 3 babyfood too.  You are eating snacks once-twice a day now and you like Gerber puffs, pinwheels, cheetos, and Yogurt melts.  You are down to 16 ounces which means only 3 bottles now!  You are starting to take to your sippy cup more now and are starting to hold it by yourself.  You make this cute face where you make your lips look like a monkey when you are really concentrating on picking up food.  It is so cute!

Poor baby, I'm sorry to tell you that you will be getting tubes in your ears this month.  You have either had one long ear infection, or four in a row.   You are on your fourth round of antibiotics and each one has been different.  You also had to get an antibiotic a shot in both thighs. We hate how you had a week where you woke up in the middle of the night, diarrhea, fever, and pulling on your ears.  These last two months, you have been a trooper and have still been such a sweetie throughout this whole ordeal.  We are so excited for you to start feeling better.

You weigh 22 pounds this month!  You are growing like a weed and probably by 5th grade you will either  be as tall or taller than me!  This month, we have really seen a change in your face.  You are looking so much older and are growing into such a handsome little guy! 

You will suck your thumb to soothe yourself when you're tired.  This is always our cue that you need a nap or that you have just had enough!

You are still babbling by saying "dadada" or "bababa".  You started saying a bunch of gar and gr sounds this month too. 

You are so funny when you're tired.  You will start making the funniest noises that sound like you are clearing your throat really loudly.  When you do this, we will do it back to you, and we will go back and forth over and over.  You think it is so funny!

You have started to enjoy peekaboo this month and I will hide behind anything or just my hands and you will giggle when you see me!  Your laugh is so contagious and we absolutely love to hear you giggle!  Your other new favorite thing to do is when I roll the ball to you, you will throw it to me!  You will smile as we do this over and over!  You are also really starting to enjoy hearing stories more and you love looking at the pictures!  It is so sweet to see you as you look at the pictures, or turn the pages. 

You have a tooth cutting through on the top and so with this and the ear infections, you are not a happy camper at times!  I love your little teethy grin!

You had your first Christmas this month!  You had a Christmas with MiMi at our house first, then we traveled all the way to Louisiana for you to meet all of MawMaw's family!  You did soooo good in the car and only had two minor meltdowns.  They loved you and kept commenting on how sweet and laid back you are. Oh yeah, and they also kept saying that you are a big boy!  You didn't really understand the whole Christmas thing.  I would open presents for you and then you would just stare at me or the present like "what is this?"  Now you have a million toys and you are having so much fun exploring all of them! 

Love you pumkin!