10.5 months

just some more details about what little z has been up to... he crawled over to me the other day so that i could read to him.  it was so cute!  it wasn't so cute that i had to nurse him for about 30 min last night at 1am.  he also made noise several other times, and so much again at 4am that i got up to give him a bottle, except by the time i looked in his room, he was back asleep.  and then up again at 5:50am.  grrr.  mama doesn't feel so good today.  anyway, he has some favorite books.  he shows his excitement by pumping his legs back & forth.  loves "where is baby's belly button,"  "baby faces,"  "great day for up,"  and "pat the bunny."  he bit off the little piece of fabric where you play peekaboo with paul, which is his favorite part.  i think we'll have to get a new book.  we have to read those books over, and over, and over again.  cute, but also drives you crazy.  he has a few sounds he makes, but no words yet - daadaadaadaabaabaabrrrrbrrrrmaga.  when he first began making lots of sounds, he liked "mogda" and said it frequently, but it hasn't surfaced lately.  sometimes he just voices vowels for a long breath, then saying them again while breathing in (that's pretty funny).  he's still eating a lot... some sort of meat + chopped veggies + pasta or rice + cheddar for main meals, yogurt, fruit, oatmeal for other times.  he loves his snack trap, filled with those rice puff things that probably have way too much sugar, or cheerios (organic type).  he cries when you take it away from him.  his poop is really really smelly now.  i'm guessing it's the meat & cheese that makes it really potent.  his iron levels are fine now, so we don't need to suppplement with iron drops anymore, and the high lead levels were just a false positive.  his bald spot is getting more & more filled in.  he crawls normally on carpet, but when he hits the wood floors, he sticks one leg out (all i can guess is that way it doesn't hurt so much - wood floors are hard!) & crawls on one knee & one foot.  he's getting braver every day, pulling himself up on everything, palming the walls, crawling between furniture or walls.  he's really wearing his mommy & daddy out!  he's still taking 2 naps a day.  when i'm lucky, they're both 2 hours long -then the day really goes by quickly (especially after a sleepless night).  other days, they're only 45 min long- those days really drag on...