About Our Ten Month Old

 About a year ago, we found out I was carrying a healthy baby boy, about 20 weeks along, but that was last February. Now February is new. It has brought us a 10 month old and it has surprised us.

(Eli at 3 weeks)

Our Ten Month Old claps. He stands in his exersaucer and claps his soft skinned puffy little hands together and smiles his gummy smile ear to ear. Our Ten Month Old thinks we are funny. He squeaks, he growls, he screams, he cries, he laughs. He is happy.

Our Ten Month Old is a baby who wants to eat big boy solid food, but his gag reflex won't let him. While his 10 month old brain tells him to bite a cracker, his 7 1/2 month old gummy mouth won't let him chew. This is something that makes him frustrated. Our Ten Month Old is a boy who wants to be in the middle of all the action and he believes he should be able to, he is a determined little boy who tries so hard to scoot and to move. His brain tells him he can, but his arms and legs won't carry him. Our baby has a 10 month old brain in a 13 pound body.

Our Ten Month Old makes us laugh. He makes smoochy noises, which then makes us all freak out with excitement at a new trick by the baby boy. Our Ten Month Old sits up like a big boy to play with his toys. He drinks from a sippy cup and likes to try feeding himself with a spoon.

Our Tenth Month Old is a healthy boy. A boy who has made it almost through his first winter with no surprise sicknesses. He surprises us every day. He may be different than other babies his age, but he is ours and we love Our Ten Month Old.

(Eli at 10 months)

(*3 weeks after this was written we have been surprised again! Eli eats graham crackers, and vanilla wafers like a champ. He also is learning to scoot and rolling everywhere. He got his first tooth and the second isn't far behind. Just this morning, he decided he knows how to make consonant sounds - dada, blabla, baba, and has been shouting them all day!)