Dear Landen,
You’re ten
months old!! Double digits! How’d you get so big so fast??? You’ve been getting some new teeth – your top
right and left teeth popped through in the beginning of the month. You’ve taught yourself how to turn your mouth
into a musical instrument! You finger
your lips and make “bub” sounds at the same time.
You starting
pulling yourself up to a stand in the beginning of the month but you were
pretty wobbly at first. It didn’t take
long before you started balancing better.
You scared us to death when you pull yourself up on one of the dining
room chairs and pulled it over on top of you.
You hit the floor and then the chair hit you in the head twice!! You were obviously very upset and had bruises
on your forehead for awhile to remind us what had happened. We’ve rearranged the chairs so that can’t
happen again.
For most of
the month you’ve army crawled all around the house. It’s amazing how fast you are at it!! All of the sudden at the end of the month you
abandoned the army crawl and started zooming around on your hands and
knees. We thought you were fast before
but it was nothing compared to now. Your
knees and the tops of your feet are absolutely filthy by the end of the
day. We’ve baby-proofed everywhere
except the office. We have to watch out
for all the computer cords under the desks and Nala’s water bowl (you think
it’s a personal pool). We were surprised
when we went to a Concert in the Park and you tried to crawl off of the
blanket. You’ve always been very
reluctant to have anything to do with grass.
Apparently that’s no longer an issue.
We started
you on a new feeding schedule after seeing Dr. Widelitz at the beginning of the
month. You now get six 4 oz. bottles per
day, 3 meals (including cereal at breakfast and dinner) and 2 snacks. We tried to give you a dissolving “puff” but
you gagged and threw up almost immediately.
We used to think you were gagging because you didn’t like the taste of
something but now you’re showing us that you have a texture aversion. After taking a break for a couple of weeks,
Mimi gave you part of a Mum-Mum at your sign language class and you ate
it!! Since you did so well, she bought
some yogurt melts and you ate those too!!
We were so proud of you.
Sometimes you will nibble on the yogurt melts with your front teeth but
mostly you just let them dissolve on your tongue. You won’t eat a chunky puree
but we’ll keep working on it. You love
drinking water off of a spoon or taking a sip from the side of a cup. You refuse sippy cups so we’re working on
drinking from a straw. You kind of get
the idea sometimes but that will need some more work too.
You’ve made
such big gains and are turning into a little boy more and more each day. We’re so proud of you when you learn to do
something new. We can’t wait to see what
the next month brings!
(We had to do
two photoshoots with you this month because you were not being very
cooperative. We hope this isn’t a sign
of what’s to come …)
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