Grayden is now a double digit baby! He turned 10 months today and I still am amazed at how time flies when your having fun! He is so much fun and brightens every moment of our life. I still get to wake up to that adorable smile everyday, I feel like the luckiest mom in the world to get to be Grayden's mommy!
So what has this month been like for Grayden:
This has been your busiest month SO FAR. Im sure I will probably say that for the next few months to come. You cruise around everywhere, stand up and walk between furniture and stand all by your self here and there. You can stand there and balance your self for a while now. You will be taking a step or two in no time. Its so wierd for me to look at you just standing there ALL BY YOURSELF! You just look like such a big boy and it only seemed like last month where you couldn't even hold your head up without support. (sniff, sniff)
Your favorite things to do around the house are sneaking into the bathroom and play with the toilet paper. You spin it over and over and watch the toilet paper make a mess on the floor. In the loft you like to get under the computer desk and play with all the cords (mommy is constantly pulling you out from under there!!! In the kitchen you LOVE to play in the pantry and pull down whatever is on the first shelf. You love to grab all of daddies plastic cups from work and bring them out and scatter them across the floor. You like to take the magnets off the fridge and fling them across the hardwood over and over again. when we open the fridge you get histerickle and crawl as fast as you can to see all the goodies in there. You have had no luck sneaking in there YET....but have come VERY close. haha You know that places your not supposed to be because every time we hear you crawling into the bathroom towards the toilet paper roll or under the computer you stop and wait for someone to catch you and once we look at you and say "NO" you smile and go even faster!!...... LITTLE STINKER LoL
Grayden cut THREE teeth this month and theres another one along the way. He cut one in Hawaii, and a week later he cut his 2nd top tooth and the very next day his bottom one came through....I had NO IDEA he was even teething on the bottom. So he almost has all four teeh. 2 on the top and 1 on the bottom. I'm guessing his other bottom one should be through in the next day or two. I am so greatful he handled it so well. I have heard some horror stories about teething and luckily you weren't to botherd. A few fussy nights and that was it.
What else is new this month? Grayden added a 2nd word to his vocabulary!! he started saying DADA !! Cody's been trying to get him to say that for a while now and finally out of no where when we were shopping in Walmart he just said Dada, Dada! That was on December 5th, 2008. Cody was so excited!! So he says Dada and MaMa so far along wtih a bunch of new goo goo ga ga babbles. He loves to talk right now
and the jibberish he comes up with sounds sooo cute.
Grayden is still eating similarly to last month, he loves apples with cereal for breakfast, cucumber for lunch and anything green for dinner. He doesn't seem to be pickey AT ALL which is wonderful. Lets hope that doesn't change and he continues to enjoy his greens!! We added a few more dishes to the menu. He loves pasta with some cinnamon, he also tried some organic chicken which he doesn't seem to mind but definitely not his favorite. All the recalls lately has made me hesitant to feed him any meats but we did try some. We mostly feed him grow foods so he'll get chicken every once in a while. I can't stomach my self to give him any red meat. I don't eat ANY red meat so I can't see him eating it anytime soon especially if I can't find it organic. He tried a couple pieces of mommies favorite food (grilled cheese), potatoes and zuccini. He is still nursing about 4 times throughout the day and once through the night and uses it for his primary nutrition and of course mommy snuggles!
You are starting to sleep through the night. YAY ...He goes to bed around 10 and wakes up at 6 for a quick feed and then back to bed until 9am. We have started skipping his 3rd nap of the day to get him to sleep earlier so he is now going to bed around 9:30. We have our bath just before to keep him awake and happy and then story time, then bedtime. Grayden really LOVES his books right now. his favorite book is called "RHYME-A-ROUND" its a touchy feely book and as soon as we read it he looks up at you and gives you a big smile....so cute! He has learned and loves to turn the pages for you.
Daddy or I continue to rock him to sleep for his naps and at night and we love that quiet, snuggle time with our cuddly little boy! His naps are still around 1 1/2 - 2 hours long.
Oh yah Grayden FINALLY started clapping this month!! haha my goodness we have been trying to get him to clap for months. He would just stare and continue doing anything BUT. He started to clap on December 21 on the way to Grandmas and it came from no where. I just looked at him sitting there all quiet and he was clapping and now does it ALL THE TIME. All you have to do is say "PATTY CAKE" OR clap and he starts to clap.
This has been such a fun month with Grayden, he learns something new everyday and I love seeing the world through his innocent, trusting little eyes. He is such a loving little boy. I think he hears "I love you" more than any other phrase, at least a 100 times a day from daddy and I. You really cannot imagine how LOVED you are Grayden. Not only from your mom and dad but your family and friends adore you SO MUCH!! You are one lucky boy to be surrounded by so many people that love you.
Happy 10 month Birthday Grayden
Mom & Dad
Check out my teeth
