10 things about you
27th December 2006
1. You are SO into your toys now. You will sit and play for more than an hour, picking up toys and examining them, poking them, throwing them, tasting them. It’s interesting to watch you try and figure out how things work. The other day you were in your exercauser, leaned back with your feet hooked on a plastic post, holding a ring and twirling the little star on it. Your bottom lip was pouting out, an expression you often get while working intently on something. You like to push toys under or in things, then quickly grab them out. You LOVE to knock over towers of blocks.
2. You make a throaty “Heeeeeee!” when you see things you recognize or like: People, photos, the baby in the mirror, certain toys.
3. We ask you where your family is, and you look towards and sometimes point to our wall of photos.
4. When you’re on the floor with your hands in front, one leg in crawl position, it’s all we can do not to yank the other leg out and give you a gentle but firm push on the butt. You seem to really want to move, but are stuck in first gear. This doesn’t mean you can’t get around: you swing that leg in and out and rotate in and out of a sitting position until you’ve gotten where you want to go. And you are a pro reacher.
5. What you do love more than yogurt is reaching out for our fingers, pulling yourself into a standing position, and walking. We motor all over the house this way. It’s funny when you spot something interesting — such as a piece of dirt or fluff or Spencer hair — because you just let go and plop to the floor. Your Gramie got you a push car for Christmas, and I’m sure in a month you will be running behind it denting your father and I in the legs.
6. You clap for yourself when you’ve done something you’re proud of.
7. Other babies and children are especially fascinating to you lately (this makes me feel a little better about daycare). At your great aunt’s yesterday, you kept leaning around us trying to see your cousins, but they weren’t very interested in playing with you. Next year, though, you will be almost 2 and we can picture you right in there annoying them.
8. Nursing is a challenge now because you get so distracted by the world. It’s almost impossible to feed you in a room with other people or the TV on. You used to nurse yourself to sleep, but now you’re wide awake and drink from both sides, waving your hand in the air and hitting me in the face(this sounds funny out loud, but is REALLY frustrating). Even at night when I breastfeed you in a dark room, you pull off and cock your head to one side, listening, to every sound. Next week we are going to start you on whole milk and begin the slow weaning process over the next two months. I am going to miss our special times together.
9. Please stop trying to tear your bib off during meals. Seriously.
10. I can appreciate how small and helpless you used to be now that you are getting so big and doing so many things. You’re starting to really show us what you like (jumping waaaay up high againagainagainagain) and don’t (screaming when you see the washcloth to wipe your face). It’s getting hard to imagine what life was like before you came along — and we like it that way.
Happy 10 month birthday, Goosey!
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