Ten Months

Calvin is now in the double digits! I am not sure what happened at six months, but I feel like once Calvin hit 6 months the time has been going by way too quickly. For this biggest news of all this month, he cut his first two teeth! One night he had a fever of 102, the next morning he slept in about two hours (he didn't make a peep during the night), and when he woke up I could feel two little teeth poking through. He took extra long naps, was a little cranky, but after two days he was as good as new. He loves his new teeth!

This little boy has turned all goofy lately. He thinks he is hilarious and always does the goofiest things. As my dad says, "that kid is ALL boy". In the past week he decided he was over army crawling and went straight to hands and knees crawling; he didn't even practice! One day I was cooking dinner and I looked over and he was just crawling away like a normal 9 month old would. Every once in a while he will still do his speedy army crawl, but I would say overall he has outgrown that form of transportation.

He pulls himself up onto anything and everything and loves to walk along furniture and toys. His other favorite activity is crawling up the stairs- he has gotten pretty fast getting up the stairs but doesn't know how to get down. If we aren't watching him he will just dive down the stairs. Luckily the near death experience has only happened twice. (Downside of have two sets of stairs and not wanting to get three baby gates :)

He just barely (as in two days ago) dropped down to two liquid feedings a day: one when he wakes up in the morning at 7 and then right before he goes to bed around 7:30. He seemed much more interested in having a snack in the afternoon rather than nursing, so we decided just to drop it and he hasn't looked back. He eats breakfast, lunch, dinner and then an afternoon snack. Needlesstosay, he is a fan of eating. Eggs are still his favorite breakfast, alongside my green smoothie. Last week he discovered spitting out food, which is awesome...not. He is still a great eater, but I found that if I ever put something in his mouth he will spit it right out. I just have to stick everything on his plate; first he will eat the thing he likes most, and then he will get around to eating the other things (ex: he will always eat bread before he decides that asparagus is good too. Or he will eat his blueberries before he eats oatmeal.)

He says "mama" and "dada", but not on demand. When he talks to himself the syllables he says are "ding, ding ding" and "bum bum bum" and "na na na". He also loves grunting and squealing from excitement. He could give birds a run for their money. He knows the sign language for "more" and "food". Signing "food" is his favorite pastime. He loves being able to communicate his hunger to me and would sign for food all day long if I kept feeding him. I keep trying to teach him "thank you", but whenever I do it he thinks I am saying "food" so he gets really excited. It's a hopeless cause.

He LOVES to read books, especially his Bug books (by David Carter) or any sort of pop up book. His next favorite is the BabyLit book, "Sherlock Holmes and the Hounds of Baskerville" and then "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom". He says "boom boom" whenever he wants to read the book and it's the cutest thing in America.

His dad is his favorite person in America and he always cries when we leave the medical school after having lunch. His ears always perk up when he hears footsteps coming up the stairs to our door and squeals and smiles from ear to ear when Robert walks in. His favorite time of day is when his dad gives him a nighttime bottle and puts him to sleep. He is definitely and daddy's boy and it's darling.

We love this growing boy even more than last month!!

Favorite Things Party

Through the past year or so I had seen the ideas of throwing a "favorite things" party floating around the great world wide web. I had been itching for an excuse to throw a party, and a Favorite Things party sounds like the perfect excuse to throw a party, have a girls night, and get cool stuff (kind of like Christmas :). And so, two of my friends and I threw a party, and it was a raving success. 

The basic idea is you bring 4 of something you love, and you leave with 4 things your friends love! There was lots of delicious treats, but also great things like cleaning supplies, and nail polishes. 

I also had people bring along their favorite pot luck item to eat. It was pretty funny the things we ended up eating. We had everything from doughnuts, to Italian sodas and a plum upside down cake (soo delicious). I didn't get tons of pictures, but here they are, in all their glory, haha!

And just for good measure, here is a picture of Calvin:

Nine Months

Our dear sweet boy is now nine months old. Big news! He has now been out of my womb one week longer than he was in it! (He was born when I was 38 1/2 weeks and he is now 39 weeks and 4 days old). Drum roll please........................ He STILL doesn't have any teeth. If you see a grown man walking around with no teeth in 30 years, it will probably be my son, so go ahead and say hi.

This child never stops moving, which makes taking his monthly pictures quite a chore. He doesn't crawl on his hands and knees, he still army crawls. Even though he is army crawling, he is speedy and loves to crawl up on things.  His favorite activity is to walk around, especially with his new walker; although, he still prefers walking around holding our fingers.

He is now down to 3 liquid feedings a day. When he wakes up at 6:30, once he wakes up from his afternoon nap (around 3), and then right before bed, around 7:30. Calvin thinks food is the greatest thing ever invented, and would eat all day long if I let him. His favorite breakfasts are eggs with salsa and avocado, or a green smoothie. I will usually have my green smoothie for a snack in the afternoon and he gets SOOO excited when he sees me fill up the blender. He also loves any sort of bread meal (pizza, pasta, sandwiches) and his favorite fruits are Cuties and blueberries. He really is just a great eater all around. He will eat anything (except baby food and bananas) if he can eat it without us feeding it to him, he does not enjoy things being fed to him on a spoon, he definitely prefers to self feed.

Calvin is still our little champion sleeper going down at 7:45, and we don't hear a peep from him till about 7 the next morning; although 4-5x a week he decides he wants to wake up and join his parents soon after we get up at 5:30. I am usually in the middle of my workout when he wakes up around 6:15, so he will talk to himself for another 15 minutes before I go get him.  He takes two naps, one in the morning and one in the afternoon both about an hour to an hour and half.

Right now his favorite things are watching us brush our teeth, his baby Contigo water bottle, drinking from straws, reading, jumping up the stairs, flipping the switch on the power strip next to our bed (which is awesome when I wake up to find my phone hasn't charged :), swings, water, going outside, the Children's Museum and finding food on the kitchen floor.



The two things on his daily to do list are to crawl over to his dirty laundry basket, flip it over and find his dirty Aden and Anais blankets. I only let him have his blankets when he is in his crib so he always gets so excited when he finds the dirty blankets in his basket, and then he gives me a cheesy grin of defiance. After that he likes to go into the living room and pull off all of our movies and CD's. Needless to say, he has gotten into his destructive phase.

We just love this little boy more and more each month!