10-month update

omg this is soooo overdue! luke turned 10-months-old on 6/29/10 :/ so really, this should be titled "10.5-month update.." but that just looks weird so, let me move on. things have been crazy busy around here (deja vu much?!) i think i might be starting with that statement in every blog post, unfortunately. there must be a learning curve in going back to work, i think an "adjustment period" is an understatement.

i'm exhausted. EXHAUSTED. any free time i have it's spent... sleeping. luke goes to bed by 8 and i'm usually in bed/asleep by 8:30. pathetic. luke has been waking in the middle of the night even more frequently since i've gone back to work :( he'll wake about 10pm, 12am, and around 3am. i nurse him and he promptly returns to sleep. hubbs and i have talked about sleep training, i just don't want to start that too soon, poor baby is already going through a huge transition, i don't want to shock him into another one. i wish i could do this with no problem (waking and tending to his every need), but i miss the days where he would sleep 10+ hours every night (how greedy i was to wish for 12 hours!). not only do i miss my rest, i miss his independence. i'll keep you posted on how we're able to implement some kind of training. it'll probably be soon because these past 2 nights have been hell, with me practically in tears due to exhaustion! i just wish i knew when the "right" time was/is :(

so not surprising that i didn't get around to taking his 10-month pics right?! good thing i had a few invite sessions right at his 10-month mark, so i can just use those.. already slacking :/

Here's his update first:
- still EBF, woooweee! 10.5 months of nursing, so glad i've made it this far!
- he nurses in the morning, has 2 sippy cups (about 5-6 oz ea) while at grandma care and then nurses twice at home (1 when we get home about 5pm, and then at bedtime). oh - not to forget his midnight meals :/
- at 10 months he started rejecting his purees (which aren't really puree since i make them, so they're kind of thick/texturey). regardless, he only wants to eat our food so we're slowly doing away with the purees. sad sad day, my baby is growing up!
- eats 3 meals a day, still all homemade, mostly finger foods like toast w/cream cheese for breakfast, pasta w/cheese + fruit for lunch, and then some kind of protein and veggie + fruit for dinner.
- cruising since 9.5 months
- upper two central incisors came in back to back, first one (on his left on 6/18) and the second one on 6/19!
- just a couple days ago (7/13) both of his lateral incisors came in! poor baby, he was a champ though, we didn't even know they were coming in (no teething symptoms whatsoever) until they were out already!
- he's crawling a mile a minute now (and boy do we get a workout!) it seriously happened overnight and he just gets faster and faster everyday.
- he loves playing fetch with himself. he throws a ball and crawls after it, throws it again... and so on.
- he's talking a lot now. again, overnight. he grunts when he wants something (usually the food on our plate, lol).
- hubbs caught him (red handed) teething on the crib a couple weeks ago, the crib is now decorated with cute little teeth marks (see pics below). we've since found a resolution to this dilemma, pics to come in the next post.
- he just recently started waving, chasing after the door when daddy or mommy leaves, and throwing a big tantrum if we tell him "no, get down!"
- he's a generally happy baby, not fussy at all unless it's bed time. he's an easy baby for sure, loves people and kids (not so much sharing but that's natural right?! lol).

i think that's it for now. here are some pics of him at 10-months. get ready for pictures galore!

i think he was done with the hat..

and i don't know when one would ever not want their baby in focus... but i was playing and think it's a cool perspective (too bad i didn't catch that adorable expression in focus).

that's more like it!

lol

and last but not least...

oh, almost forgot to include pics of Luke's latest, er, hobby... it's even worse now! these were taken after the first incident.