10 Months!

Here are some fun or funny things my 10 month old is doing...

~~ Saying "Ba-ba" while waving with lots of passion when someone leaves (not prompted by us anymore). Last night we had life group at our house. When it was time for everyone to leave, he was so serious about waving to everyone that he didn't stop from the time the first person left until the last person left. He has a serious look on his face, and his whole arm moves up and down with great speed and strength.

~~ He's exploring the whole house by wall walking and crawling really fast. He'll turn around and see if we're following him once he's about to exit a room and loves it (starts going faster and squeeling) when we chase him.




~~ His favorite things to play with are drawers and cabinets. Nevermind all of the toys we have for him, he'd rather stand up to the end table, open the drawer, and pull out whatever's in there. Then he'll take one thing for each hand and crawl around, holding them wherever he goes.





~~ He's standing alone for a few seconds at a time.

~~ He's squating.

~~ He repeats us with wide eyes when we say, "No, no." He says, "Ni, ni."

~~ He says Mama, Dada, and Ba-ba on his own, but he repeats other words after we say them, like Josh, James, Hi, juice, etc., but in his own baby way. He'll sometimes mimic short sentences that we say to him with similar tone. He has no clue what he's saying, but he's experimenting with his voice and it's so neat to hear!


~~ He's gotten a MIND OF HIS OWN lately! This just started a couple of weeks ago, but he is getting to be very opinionated and has a little temper when he doesn't get his way. It's kinda funny, but I'm trying my hardest not to laugh so I don't reinforce a negative behavior. Sometimes I just can't help myself, though!

~~ He takes a little while to warm up to adults, but he feels immediately comfortable with children. I took him up to my old school, and he took a while to go to my teacher friends, but when I introduced him to a class, he started waving, laughing, and clapping for them. He was LOVING his big audience and did all of his tricks for them. They got the biggest kick out of him and started chanting, "All hail, King James!" over and over. It was hilarious!

~~He's giving kisses now, which is just him opening his mouth and putting it on ours when we pucker up. It's so sweet, though, and melts my heart everytime. Sometimes we get lucky and he'll reach up and put his hand on our faces.


Here are a few of his Sears 9 month pictures.






This was the outfit Thomas wore at our wedding.