10 Months Old

Sweet Lukey Bear...you are 10 months old!!  Two months shy of your first birthday and I truly CAN NOT believe it!!  Your 9th month was an interesting one - with lots of fussing and not enough eating or sleeping.  Around your 10 month mark you became your old self again (THANK YOU JESUS) and for the past week or so you've been sleeping and eating much better and your sweet, happy demeanor is back...woohoo!

Here's a little more about you at 10 months:

• You probably weigh around 22lbs...it's not a check up month.
• You wear size 12-18 month clothing and you're wearing size 5 diapers (so you and Cade can share...you're really a size 4).
• You eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner and take a bottle or nurse 4-5 times a day.  You eat almost everything we eat.  Your favorites are pasta, mashed potatoes, chicken, ground turkey, and toast.  You're a pretty good eater most of the time, BUT when you are done eating...you are DONE eating.  You stop eating and then scream and cry until we get you out of your high chair. 
• You've been sleeping a little better, but you still wake up once a night...though you've blessed Mommy a few times and slept all the way through.  Today you slept until 9AM....9AM!!!!!!
• You are pulling up on everything and cruising all around the furniture.  You like to explore the house, but you prefer to be with us.  You like to be held as we work around the house. 
• You started waving this week and I think you can say a couple of words!  I'm a little confused, as I was with Cade's first words, about whether or not you are actually saying something or not.  I think you can say "Uh-oh".  When you drop your cup while eating (which you do often - you think it's funny to watch me pick it up over and over and over and over), you definitely say "Uh-Uh" every time. 
• You love: Cade, anything that Cade is playing with, being held, being in your walker, the dishwasher, the refrigerator, your sippy cup, when I sing to you, and Cassius.
• You don't love:  having your diaper or clothing changed (there is NOTHING more difficult that changing your diaper.  Sometimes it feels like you and I are in an all out wresting match.)  I take that back, one thing more difficult than changing your diaper is brushing your teeth.  I think you dislike that even more. 
• We love:  your "scrunchy face", your smiles, your bashful look when strangers talk to you, and hearing you talk.

We love you sweet Lukey!