Ten Months Old!

Poor Aiden. We didn’t do anything very fun for his ten-month-day. This week Isaac went to the dentist to suffer the wrath of the drill, Isaac’s Grandpa Hanson died, and we entered the early stages of having our bathroom torn up because we have unknowingly had a leak filling up our floor. (sigh) It’s been a rough week.

We sure are glad to have our sweet little ten-month old along for the ride though! He is quite the trooper about cutting his first top tooth right now. Mostly. At ten months…

*He has two and a half teeth.

*He is cruising around furniture more comfortably, and his balance has improved a lot recently. He will sometimes take a step without holding anything, just to get from one handhold to another, but he’s not really walking.

*He loves food. He will sit pretty nicely at the table as long as he has food, and he is much better at getting cereal or puffs or bits of banana into his mouth than he was a month ago.

*He reaches for anything and everything within his grasp and gets tired of things quickly, so we are always looking for something new to let him check out.

*He smiles really big for people he knows and reaches out his hands to them. He is also pretty content sitting with people he doesn’t know as well, at least for a while.

*He likes to splash in his baths and play with toys in the water. I won’t let him have any bath toys with holes that could potentially collect water since I saw this news report on sludge in bath toys (*shudder*), but he loves his new alphabet pieces from Aunt Teresa. Thanks, Teresa!

Oh, and Sophie has this protective thing where she won’t leave his side while he’s in the tub.

*He smiles for the camera, and usually then he tries to come get it. I have to be quick and keep untouchables out of his reach at ALL times.

*He says “mama” when he wants to come see me, particularly when he is hungry. I don’t know that he knows that’s a name, but he does it consistently, and I think it’s cute.

Happy ten-month-day, Aiden! You’re turning into such a big boy!