Simon: Ten Months

Weight:  Who knows... remember how I never knew how much I gained during pregnancy, well we don't really have a scale in the house, nor do I like stepping on one anyway... so it's a mystery.

He really wanted to lean over the chair and play with his jumparoo... silly boy

Height:  He seems so much taller, but don't have an official measurement.

Medical Issues:  Not that it's even a medical issue, the dry scalp is still an issue... we've tried many things and just cannot figure out the right recipe to get it to clear up for good.  Sometimes it's worse than other times.  Hopefully like lots of articles say it will go away on it's own in due time.

Kept waving at me/the phone... which is adorable but doesn't make the best picture

Checking out my work

Sleep:  I'll go with it's not super great, but it's not bad either... until the very end of the month he'd go to bed between 6:30 and 7 (now it's more like 7:30).  He usually gets up once around 1:30 or so, and then again around 5.  He'll take some bottle at those times.  He's usually up between 6:30 and 7:30.  (although I don't do morning routine except a couple of times a week).  Nap wise he take two solid naps a day at 9:30 and 1:30.  The morning nap is typically longer around 2 hours and the afternoon one is usually around 1.5 hours.  He will take a binky when sleeping.  We love our zippity-zip and Dan's aunt Julie made two additional suits which is incredibly helpful to have extras (we have some leaking incidents)

Pickle!

Clothes/Diapers (sizes):  He's still in size 3 diapers (I think he will be for awhile) and 9 month clothing.

Diet:  He drinks around 25oz of milk a day.  This month we moved up to three meals of solids.  Simon really enjoys eating so it's a natural progression.  He is funny when he doesn't like something will spit it out and won't open his mouth.  He did NOT like the little bits baby food (which has some chunks) but enjoys puffs, mum mum crackers, melts, pickles, crackers, bread, fruit, really so much.  He's not too picky (other than those little bits haha) and hope to keep increasing his table foods.  We also need to work on Simon taking a sippy cup.

Baby Gear Love:  Toys... this kid enjoys toys.  Dan bought him a ride on car earlier this week and he LOVES that... doesn't want to let him stop.  He likes his walk behind toy (although he doesn't actually walk behind it yet - but stands and pulls up.)  He likes banging toys together.  He likes his activity table.  Our Born Free bottles are still working great as is the Boon drying grass.  Love our video monitor.

Milestones/First:  Simon finally got two teeth at the beginning of this month (his two bottom front teeth).  They pretty much came in at the same time at the beginning of the month.  He's working on his third up top.  He's army crawling now... so all bets are off keeping him still.  He just is so much more mobile now, being able to get from the sitting position to his belly.  He can certainly get to where he wants to go by rolling, scooting, army crawling.  He can pull up!  Which is pretty fun to watch.  We dropped the crib mattress once he started even though he hasn't pulled up in there yet.  He can walk along furniture if he really wants to (doesn't do it a whole lot yet).  Dan got him to stand for like 15 seconds unassisted the other day which was pretty incredible to watch. 

Likes:  Playing, moving around, mommy and daddy, toys, dancing, standing, eating, being around people

Dislikes:  Teething, sleeping through the night, I'm grasping at straws here

Things I Don't Want to Forget: Simon has started to present some separation anxiety.  He ends up being fine after he's warmed up to a new place, but if went we get somewhere and we pass him off to someone else he gets a bit worried we are going to leave him and starts to cry.  Also when my mom watched him one night when we left she said he cried for awhile.

I usually put Simon to sleep.  Sometimes he decides he's not really tired and will start touching and playing with my face... at that point I know he's not going to sleep.  Also, when he does fall asleep in my arms when drinking his nighttime bottle he will cover his face with his arms... so cute.

He's quite the dare devil and will want to "jump" off the couch face first... dude you will not like doing that!

Reading to Simon is interesting - he mostly like to grab at the book and put them in his mouth.  I keep trying but mostly he wants to play.

I love watching Simon think through and examine things.  Sometimes I think he's really trying to figure out how things work.

He love standing next to furniture... he also really enjoys playing with cell phones and remote controls.

Sometimes when we feed him he will knock at the spoon thus dumping the baby food on his high chair tray (or himself) and then Simon will proceed to play with the food smearing it all around.

Simon loves playing with my necklace.  He likes when we dance around.

Dan bought him a ride on car and he loves riding on that and going fast.  When we stop pushing him he fusses.  He also loves all the animals - of course he wants to grab them, so we try to stress gentle, he'll learn, but so far they are great with Simon too... except maybe Quina who Simon loves to look at, but we don't let him get too close since she will bite.

Here's the thing - we know when Simon is upset since he will start fussing (not crying) and we know what it means but to other people he's so "polite".  It's amazing that all he does to other people.

The fact of the matter is we have a laid back baby.  He goes with the flow and can pretty easily be distracted.  He's such a sweetheart and we love him so much.  He brings us so much joy!