10 months!

10 months!

so i am super behind on posting this month! life is too full of things to spend time blogging, but i have to make myself sit down and record all of this so that i won't forget, and so that you will remember.

you are in the double digits now! ten months... it's crazy. you have had a busy month! after four weeks of being a crankypants and being miserable and Inconsolable, two little teeth erupted on the bottom of your mouth! you are so cute with your little teeth-- you will run your tongue along them and put your hand in your mouth to feel them.

you have started being much more observant of the world around you-- and i think you are understanding more about how things work. when you are interested in something, you will lean in really close to take a look (and go a little cross-eyed!). it is so sweet to watch-- but sometimes it's hard to get you to focus on eating, when you are looking all around everywhere at the slightest movement or noise!

you are becoming more animated by the day! still no consonants yet, but we get lots of noises and squeals. we bought you a sippy cup and you have been grabbing it and shaking it about with one hand. you haven't figured out how to drink from it yourself, yet, but will drink milk out of it if momma or daddy feeds you. you have a brand-new highchair that granna&papa got you while they were visiting-- you love the extra room on the tray for toys and food. and you look like such a big boy sitting there in it!

you have started to pull your legs up under yourself occasionally during tummytime. you will also push up well on your arms when there is a blanket under your arms. daddy discovered that you can hold yourself up with your arms if you are placed that way with your arms locked-- which is a grand discovery! you have started standing some in your exersaucer, but get tired pretty fast. it's not your favorite toy. but i keep thinking back to when you Hated your bumbo and i thought you'd never be able to sit.

the most exciting thing that you have done this month is play with your stacking ring toy. it's a wooden stick with colored wooden rings that layer on top of each other on the stick. we will take all the rings off and show you how to put them on the stick one at a time. you very clearly understand the concept, because you will grab a ring and hit the stick with it. but just the other day, you actually put a ring on the stick! momma was so excited she shouted YAY! and scared you and you cried. haha.

right when you turned 10 months, granna and papa came to visit. it was a nice visit, albeit rainy. you had your first shopping mall trip in your stroller and granna bought you all the things! you had several naps with/on papa and many fun times and smiles while they were here. you were cheesing it up.

right now you take two naps a day-- one in the morning and one at night. and you eat two meals of solids/purees. we are getting ready to transition you to three solid meals a day (with your milk still) and a snack, dropping the last before-bed feed. you're almost on a big person meal schedule! yay!

:::

i have good days and bad days with hoping things for solomon. i think more good days than bad this month, though. a family member was asking me about considering PT for solomon since "you know he won't be crawling by one." and though it's probably true, it was really hard to hear. right now, i would be amazingly happy to see him sitting up unassisted and playing on his own by 1 year. i can't even imagine him crawling. C is very positive and keeps saying he really thinks solomon will get there, just in his own time. i think i'm too close to it to see his progress. it's hard to see his slow slow progress when so many other babies are learning so fast. but i am glad that at least there is progress.

i've mostly stopped sharing about my worries with his development at our tuesday morning group, even though i still struggle regularly with it. i just feel like a broken record. and i don't want anyone to feel sorry for us. or for solomon. so it's hard to share my fears. C and i have been learning some things about family and culture lately that i want to share on here soon. but i think that's a post for another time.