Today I turned ten months old. Pretty cool - two digits! Oh and I have a few books that now go up to ten too, which is quite a bit further than five.
I really like to move, and am getting better at it. For example, there was this time when I pretty much just stood up at my changing table, holding on. Now I can cruise left and right along it, make the reach over to my crib (which has very convenient slats to hold onto), and move along it. It is especially fun when mom puts little plastics eggs (which I love!) behind a slat for me to get, or a little duck. Oh speaking of the duck, it has this little hole that means that it gets filled with water in the bath, and then it comes out a little when I shake shake shake it - awesome!
But back to the crib. So I found out that I can move along the crib and around the corner and get to a little wall (Mopy my big stuffed dog hangs out above this, so I can grab at him a bit). I learned how to palm along the wall - of course mom covered up the enticing outlet but that is okay because at the end of the wall is a bunch of books at floor level! Yay! You know I like books a lot so I like to sit there and pull them out of the box (speaking of which I got a cool set with opening flaps from my second cousins this month). Sometimes mom sits with me and we read one right on the floor.
If I get bored though the next thing to stand up near is really quite fun - it is a moving chair! It glides back and forth, but I can hold onto it (mom says it looks like I am dancing). Sometimes I sneak into the corner and get the magnets, which are really very interesting things. But usually I head from there to the couch, which is just my height. After that, if mom doesn't let me play with the fan, comes the dresser that has cool hand holds that face down or sideways (mom says they look like underclings). I generally always try to reach up, but the dresser is not really fulfilling because there isn't much to grab. After that I get to the closet, which I can palm along, and then I get to my really cool wooden box plaything with a bunch of fun moving parts and wires on the top that have wooden pieces I can move around. I love this thing and spend part of every day here (mom gave it to me on Easter). At first when I tried to use it to pull up it would tend to fall over, so mom attached it to the ceiling in a clever way using her climbing gear and slings (she was excited to use a butterfly knot, girth hitch, a figure eight, and a few half hitches). And voila, I made it three quarters of the way around the room. With mom's help (holding two or sometimes one of her hands) I can then walk to changing table, completing my circuit.
Oh speaking of butterflies, have you ever seen them? They are beautiful and move around in lovely ways. Mom took me to a place with a whole bunch of them flying around and I liked it a bunch. I tried to catch some but they are very fast.
This month I learned some cool things. Like dancing to music, or even when the music isn't there. It's catchy if you try it. I learned how to push myself up to sitting from lying on my back (first I pike up using my stomach muscles then just as it gets too hard I roll to the right and put my right hand down to push myself up the remaining way) - mom thinks it is really cute, though it makes changing my diaper more challenging. I continued to learn better how to pick up foods and eat them. I like to do this when everyone else is eating. Oh and I drank from a real cup too! Like a big kid, well not quite as mom held the glass and tipped it, but it was just an open glass and looked like ones everyone else uses.
I got out hiking and snowshoeing quite a bit this month. Places up high that are sunny and snowy with beautiful mountains (and places that burned mom's face but not mine because I was super protected). I got to ride in a new backpack that was on mom's back (instead of the pack on her front that I've been in before). Places down low that are warm and have dirt trails and other dogs and people on them. One one of these hikes Appa let me sit on his shoulders which was really fun - I could reach his mouth if I leaned over, or could pat his head.
There were lots of other meetings with family and friends (both big ones aka mom's friends and small ones aka my baby friends). All in all a wonderful month.
Here is a photo collage of my tenth month on this beautiful earth. Enjoy!
I really like to move, and am getting better at it. For example, there was this time when I pretty much just stood up at my changing table, holding on. Now I can cruise left and right along it, make the reach over to my crib (which has very convenient slats to hold onto), and move along it. It is especially fun when mom puts little plastics eggs (which I love!) behind a slat for me to get, or a little duck. Oh speaking of the duck, it has this little hole that means that it gets filled with water in the bath, and then it comes out a little when I shake shake shake it - awesome!
But back to the crib. So I found out that I can move along the crib and around the corner and get to a little wall (Mopy my big stuffed dog hangs out above this, so I can grab at him a bit). I learned how to palm along the wall - of course mom covered up the enticing outlet but that is okay because at the end of the wall is a bunch of books at floor level! Yay! You know I like books a lot so I like to sit there and pull them out of the box (speaking of which I got a cool set with opening flaps from my second cousins this month). Sometimes mom sits with me and we read one right on the floor.
If I get bored though the next thing to stand up near is really quite fun - it is a moving chair! It glides back and forth, but I can hold onto it (mom says it looks like I am dancing). Sometimes I sneak into the corner and get the magnets, which are really very interesting things. But usually I head from there to the couch, which is just my height. After that, if mom doesn't let me play with the fan, comes the dresser that has cool hand holds that face down or sideways (mom says they look like underclings). I generally always try to reach up, but the dresser is not really fulfilling because there isn't much to grab. After that I get to the closet, which I can palm along, and then I get to my really cool wooden box plaything with a bunch of fun moving parts and wires on the top that have wooden pieces I can move around. I love this thing and spend part of every day here (mom gave it to me on Easter). At first when I tried to use it to pull up it would tend to fall over, so mom attached it to the ceiling in a clever way using her climbing gear and slings (she was excited to use a butterfly knot, girth hitch, a figure eight, and a few half hitches). And voila, I made it three quarters of the way around the room. With mom's help (holding two or sometimes one of her hands) I can then walk to changing table, completing my circuit.
Oh speaking of butterflies, have you ever seen them? They are beautiful and move around in lovely ways. Mom took me to a place with a whole bunch of them flying around and I liked it a bunch. I tried to catch some but they are very fast.
This month I learned some cool things. Like dancing to music, or even when the music isn't there. It's catchy if you try it. I learned how to push myself up to sitting from lying on my back (first I pike up using my stomach muscles then just as it gets too hard I roll to the right and put my right hand down to push myself up the remaining way) - mom thinks it is really cute, though it makes changing my diaper more challenging. I continued to learn better how to pick up foods and eat them. I like to do this when everyone else is eating. Oh and I drank from a real cup too! Like a big kid, well not quite as mom held the glass and tipped it, but it was just an open glass and looked like ones everyone else uses.
I got out hiking and snowshoeing quite a bit this month. Places up high that are sunny and snowy with beautiful mountains (and places that burned mom's face but not mine because I was super protected). I got to ride in a new backpack that was on mom's back (instead of the pack on her front that I've been in before). Places down low that are warm and have dirt trails and other dogs and people on them. One one of these hikes Appa let me sit on his shoulders which was really fun - I could reach his mouth if I leaned over, or could pat his head.
There were lots of other meetings with family and friends (both big ones aka mom's friends and small ones aka my baby friends). All in all a wonderful month.
Here is a photo collage of my tenth month on this beautiful earth. Enjoy!
