Ten Months

Can it be that you are just two short months away from being one year old? I think each month passes by just a little more quickly than the last. You are growing and changing right before our very eyes - sometimes so fast that I can hardly keep up! Each month I try to remember your milestones and the things that you are doing, but they seem to just happen overnight and without much warning, leaving me wondering when exactly you started this activity or doing that.

These have been the very BEST ten months of our lives! We are just trying to soak in each moment with you - the laughs, snuggles, and even the little baby tears, because I know they will not last too long. So, our sweet busy boy, we love you more than words can express!! Here are a few milestones and memories from this month:



- You are wearing 9 month clothes and gradually moving into your 12 month sizes and your Fall wardrobe
- You wear a size 3 diaper and a size 4 shoe (although you much prefer to be barefoot)
- You are nursing five times a day and eating solid foods and baby food at breakfast, lunch, and dinner with a few snacks in between.
- Some of your favorite foods are graham crackers, green peas, string cheese, and spaghetti! You also love cereal bars, fresh peaches, plums, and pluots (I picked them up on sale and you LOVED them, who knew?)
- You now have SIX teeth!! Two on the bottom and four on the top. I have tried to pinpoint exactly when they came in, but the top four seemed to arrive all at once, with the exception of the last one, so we'll just say that you got all four top teeth in August, okay?
- Perhaps the BIGGEST deveopment of the month is your sleep habits and we are SO proud!! You have worked so hard at sleeping "like a big boy" this month and we are so proud of your progress. Thanks to my friend Katy at work, we found out about The Sleep Lady - and she has worked WONDERS for all of us.
- You go to bed around 7:30 - 8:00 and sleep until 6:00 a.m. YEAH Barrett!! You are even working hard at falling asleep on your own after our bedtime routine of a bath, stories, and songs. Way to go!!
- Your very favorite activity is reading books. Barnyard Dance is your absolute favorite, along with The Going to Bed Book, One, Two, Three, and any book with soft animals to touch. Miss Carol also told us that you love the Ten Little Ladybugs book, so it looks like that one will have to be on my list to get you next!!
- Your favorite toys this month are your singing stage (you love to dance to the music), anything that rattles when you shake it ("shakea shakeas"), and really any other toys that seem to be in your path
- One of the funniest things that you do is "driving" your toys across the floor. Whether it be a lotion bottle, a piece of paper, or a car, you really enjoy "driving" all over the house
- You are absolutely a little explorer, finding all sorts of things that we hadn't yet discovered...
- Some new words this month are "uh-oh", "dog", "dada", and "bye-bye"
- You are waving hi and bye-bye, and clapping your hands to songs, pattycake, and yeah, and you can also play peekaboo!! So cute!!
- You are still crawling everywhere and pulling up cruising everywhere. No walking yet, but it won't be long!
- Another one of your favorite activities is standing at the back door playing with Doc and Daisy - we love it!
- One of your other cute little "Barrettisms" is laying on soft blankets and saying "awww"

We have really enjoyed watching you grow into such a sweet little boy!!!