10 months!

My child is 10 MONTHS OLD ALREADY.  I cannot believe I just typed that sentence.  I actually saw this picture the other day and totally freaked out…

What?  Time to figure out this birthday business.  Party? presents? what are we going to do about this whole my birthday is on christmas thing?  party in early december? party in early january? Any ideas, send them my way!  

Anyway…back to the 9th month of life for a little bit.  Lets not get ahead of ourselves here.  Month 9 was awesome!  B is doing all sorts of really cute stuff now and he is growing so fast.  

Health stats: We finally had our first case of sickness around here this month.  B had a fever for a couple of days in a row and it was pretty high (102.8) but he didn't have any other symptoms and he seemed fine.  I called the doctor and they said to just keep giving him Tylenol and Motrin.  Then on the 4th day (Sunday) he no longer had a fever but he was miserable.  He wasn't sleeping or eating and you could tell he didn't feel good.  So I finally took him in to the doc and they said he had an ear infection and possible strep throat :(  They prescribed antibiotics and we had a couple more rough days but pretty soon he was feeling much better.  I feel very blessed that we were able to make it so long without any illnesses.  I knew it was bound to happen eventually, especially since we have been getting so much more social.  We have been going to story time at the library on Mondays and they sing a bunch of songs and read a book and then they pull out this giant tub of infectious diseases (aka toys) and all the babies throw them on the floor and put them in their mouths.  I'm pretty sure thats where this little bug came from.

Sleep: Ha. ha. ha.  I keep things I want to write about when I do these posts written in the notes app on my phone.  But usually by the time I get around to writing it they are a month behind so I struggle with if I should write about what happened then or skip over it and write about what is going on right now. For example, I had this long detailed explanation of how we sleep trained him and dr. ferber is a god among men and it was the greatest thing ever and he was totally sleeping through the night yay! Which did actually happen, for about 4 days…which was right before he got an ear infection and strep throat.  So I guess I'll just say sleep training is still a work in progress.  

Milestones:  Well, as I mentioned, he slept through the night for about 5 minutes!

He is also pulling up on EVERYTHING.  Here he is playing with his favorite toy.  He is also really into the dogs all of a sudden and laughs and points at them all day and tries to chase them around.

He is eating a lot more foods now…this is spinach.  

Gram moved to SC!  

Here we are at her birthday brunch.

Now that he is pulling up I borrowed this little walking push toy from my friend which he loves.

Also now that he is pulling up nap time is an absolute nightmare.  Why would you lay down and go to sleep when you can do laps around the crib and chew on the sides like a little woodchuck?!

And of course we had to do the pumpkin patch!  We didn't actually get tix and go in to see the animals and all that.  We stuck to the free activities this time but next year I'm sure he will love it!

He can also wave at people and give high fives.  He is very discriminating about when he chooses to wave though.  For example, I try to get him to wave bye bye to dad every morning and rarely will he do it but the other day we had a plumber come over to fix something and he waved like crazy every time this random guy came in and out of the house.  He is also making choices now…when we are reading books I will hold up 2 different books and he will point to the one that he wants.  Also at mealtime if we have a couple of different things I will let him choose.  

"walking"

a new favorite activity

no big deal, just driving my school bus