10 Months Old

10 Things I Love About You

1. I love how you sometimes hold my hand when I'm carrying you in my arms.

2. I love how for some reason you smell like pineapple in the morning.

3. I love how you wake up talking/singing to yourself in the morning and give me a big smile when I come it to get you.

4. I love how you will crawl across your toys to get to your books (they are in the blue bin with the tan border):

5. I love how you entertain yourself and talk while playing.

6. I love how you will crawl to your Daddy or me in the middle of playing just to say hello and give us a hug.

7. I love how you flip your toys over or find new ways to play with things (like throwing blocks into your bouncer):

8. I love how you turn the pages when we're reading a book...and if I'm not reading quick enough, you'll close the book.

9. I love that it seems like you are associating "Mama" and "Dada" with us.

10. I love the happiness and joy you have brought into our lives...it's so easy to make you smile.

Other Caden developments:

- he has 7 teeth now (4 top, 3 bottom)

- he's really good at going from the crawling to sitting position and vice versa (which makes changing him a little more difficult)

- he loves splashing in the tub

- he does funny things when I'm feeding him, like pulling his bib up over his face between bites, making a "yummy" sound, clasping his hands together, or ripping his bib off and holding up like he's so proud of himself (this is not always funny in Mommy's eyes)

- he loves to feed himself Cheerios and other small things, yet dislikes Stage 3 foods

- he's really good at grasping things like fuzz off the floor and attempting (I usually intervene) to put them in his mouth

- he loves a simple game of peek-a-boo

- his favorite theme song is Pink Panther...it's fun to "dance" to

- he mimics some things like clapping and sometimes waving

- a new favorite cheap toy are long strips of cardboard...he just has a blast with them

- he now knows how to make his arms limp and wiggle around when he doesn't want to do something...the fun has just begun!