10 Months...

The difference between 9 Months & 10 Months has been wonderful. He's changing every day and with each new change, he becomes more & more enjoyable! He's had so many firsts and it all is so very cool. Plus he got to celebrate his first Christmas holiday!

New Things:
-Crawling, pulling himself up, eating big boy food, drinking milk, starting to feed himself

Developmental:
-Crawling (began Jan 2nd) and he hasn't stopped. He crawls all over the place and will now follow you into different rooms
-Pulling himself up to stand. He'll do this in his crib, from sitting down on his chair, onto your leg
-Still loves jumping, whether in his jumperoo, exersaucer or just by holding onto to your hands
-Loves to stand
-Starting to walk around the house by holding onto your hands. I think he'll walk alot sooner than he started crawling
-Says 'dada' and has started to say 'baba' more frequently. He also likes to scream as if he's telling you a story. And only in the past two days he's started to make the 'mm' sound. But I could just be thinking that's what he's doing
-Nods yes & no
-Gives Hi-fives
-Waves hi & bye
-No teeth yet
-Holds his bottle and getting much better with the sippy cup
-Loves water & bathtime, especially when he can splash
-Great motorskills (moving objects from one hand to the other & following things with his eyes)
-Still a great cuddler before bed

Sleeping:
-Wakes up around 5-5:30am
-Naps twice a day usually about an hour or so each nap, sometimes we can get a longer one out of him in the afternoon. And when driving to school, he may nap in the car to & from school
-Bedtime is 7p and he is usually asleep by 7:30pm
-He's getting much better about spending the whole night in his crib and staying asleep the whole night
-If he does cry at night, I'll go in to relax him but I keep him in his crib until he goes back to sleep unless he's uncontrollable.
-Since the week after Christmas, he's been sleeping very well

Clothes:
-Wearing a variety of sizes. He can still wear 3-6 months, 6 months and some 6-9 month
-Mainly Size 6 Months but some pants are a bit short but big in the waist
-Onesies & Shirts are 6-9 Months however I was able to put him in a 3-6 Month sweatshirt yesterday
-9 Month pjs fit better than 6 months but are definitely not easy to crawl in
-Still has yet to duplicate an entire outfit to school but we've been mixing & matching to get the most use out of his clothes. Plus with Christmas, we have a lot of new clothes to try out.
-Diapers: Pampers Size 3 Cruisers

Feeding:
-Switched to whole milk from formula full time on January 13th
-5-6 bottles a day (Typically 24 oz - 32 oz per day)
-However the past month he hasn't really wanted to finish a whole bottle. Then he got sick and really had no interest in finishing a bottle. Dr M said that as long as he was getting at least 12 oz a day & still eating other solids then he wouldn't dehydrate and wouldn't be malnutrioned. If he had less than 12 oz/day for more than 3 days then we should be concerned. Thankfully, we never ran into that.
-Morning bottle before school (he'll eat between 3-5 oz and then will push it away)
-3 bottles at school (6 oz) and a small 4 oz bottle for late afternoon
-Last bottle (4-6 oz varies at what he wants to eat) at bedtime, around 7p
-Solids - he'll have two-three meals a day:
--Breakfast: oatmeal with applesauce
--Lunch: Veggies w/water in sippy cup and a cookie
-- PM Snack: Fruit w/water in sippy cup and some puffs or a saltine cracker
-- Likes: Carrots, Applesauce, Squash, Prunes, Dutch Apple, Apple Blueberry, Pears, Peaches, Pineapple, Banana, Mixed Veggies, Sweet Potatoes & Corn, Grape Blueberry, Apple Strawberry Banana
-- So far only seems to dislike: Garden Vegetable Medley
-We'll give him water or milk in a sippy cup. He does much better when he doesn't think your watching him
-Loves to drink water out of a bottle (a normal adult water bottle)
-He's getting the hang of the puffs and has even started to put them in his own mouth rather than having someone else do it (but he can't think you're watching him)
-Loves arrowroot cookies, graham crackers & saltines
-Getting much better about trying my food: cheese, BBQ sauce, food during Christmas, ham, meatballs