10 Months Old!

Yep, you read that right. 10 months old! It's not even the fact that he is 10 months old now, but that he is TWO months away from being ONE year old! I can't believe it!

Ryan is the cutest little boy. He has a contagious smile (when he does smile in public!) and is very independent. He likes to play with anything and everything. Especially things that don't count as toys, like baby medicine bottles, diapers, ALL cords, tupperware, phones, remote controls, DVD's, socks, ANYTHING! I try to switch out his toys every week so old toys seem new. It seems to work pretty well. He loves to play with his cellphone that Grandma Lisa gave him for Christmas and he loves to play with his car.

He also loves books. He especially likes books that you can do stuff with. There is a Winnie the Pooh book that has tabs you pull on to find things behind them. He knows exactly where they are and can pull them down every time. I need to get him some more books that are interactive like that.

SLEEP. This has been a big one for awhile. He is now going to sleep for bed time and at naps without being rocked or swaddled. About half of the time he will just lay down and go to sleep, the other half, he cries/plays for an hour or so or even longer. Nights are the best still. He will go right to sleep. Nap time is a different story. I have to time when he needs a nap perfectly and it is so hard! The other day I put him down two hours after waking up and he went right to sleep. Another day I did the same two hours and he cried and cried until I picked him up and let him play for about 15 minutes and then put him back in his crib and he went to sleep. This morning I let him stay up for two and a half hours and he went right to sleep. I tried that same time frame for his afternoon nap and he's been playing/crying in his crib for the past hour. This just goes to show, once you think you got it, you really don't.

He likes to throw things out of his crib too. He constantly throws his pacifier out as well as his blankets and stuffed animals. I bet you can tell this makes for one happy momma! :) I think he is working on standing and walking, so he doesn't want to sleep and give up some practice time! Since he is sleeping in his crib for naps without being swaddled, I've been super camera happy. I love sleeping babies!!!




Ryan loves getting into stuff and will spend a ton of time on just one thing. He has learned to open and close doors, turn on and off light switches, open cupboards and pull things out (we need to get those plastic thingys stat!), getting into the refrigerator, climbing up onto everything (I can't believe the stuff he can reach!

He was pushing this chair across the room. I thought it was so funny, I had to take a picture!

He loves this car. He likes to open and shut the seat. I tried to put things inside of it to hide, but he didn't like that much. He does copy me, but puts fake things in and out, just not his real precious toys.

He loves to get up on this step. He fell the first couple of times, but is really good about stepping down now. He likes to stand there and yell for Daddy or at Sassy.

On my Snow Day post, I said that it would be nice if Ryan had some boots. Well, I should've known that when I say I need anything for Ryan, Grandma is there to provide. She found these cute boots at the DI. He can't really walk in them, but he still looked cute. He kept looking down at them. It was hilarious to see him lifting his leg, curious about why it was so much heavier. If only I got a video!



His nursing has come along a lot better. I cut out the cereal I was feeding him at all three of his meals. Now he only gets cereal in the morning with pureed fruit and his vitamins. Interestingly enough, we just started giving him his vitamins this past week and he immediately got a cold. lol. I thought they were supposed to help with that kind of stuff! He has also started signing "More." It is so dang cute! He has done it right, but he mostly just puts both of his hands on his mouth over and over. I am sure he will get the correct sign soon!

For lunch and dinner, he gets just regular table food. He always has a fruit or veggie and we usually give him some beans once a day too. My biggest find this month was canned fruit cocktail. It has a good variety of fruit and they are already cut up into baby pieces! He likes to eat anything. The only thing that he hasn't liked are yams. I bought a big things of canned yams and he refused to eat them. He also likes to eat stuff off the floor. I have to be sure to sweep everyday!

We bought a new car seat for Christmas and it looks so comfy!!! It's a First Year's True Fit, and thanks to my cousin, Corie, we were able to snag it for $99 on Target.com. I loved this car seat because it will last Ryan for a long time. Not only does it have the 5-point harness for a high weight limit, it also will rear face for a long time. The law is to forward face when your child is 20 pounds and one year old. BUT the AAP (American Association of Pediatrics) is now recommending children to be rear faced up to two years, no matter what the weight limit. I watched a video on youtube.com about it and we will definitely be doing it until Ryan is two years old. I don't know about extended rear facing. Some people do it until their kids are 7! That might be a bit much for me!

I'm sure that Ryan would like to be facing forward instead, but he doesn't really know the difference at this point, right? :) All I know is that I wish they had baby seats for adults. If my seat were like this, I would fall asleep every time I was in the car too!

He is talking lots! He can say dad and mom, but only mom when he is upset. If I say, say Mom, he will say Bob. Maybe one day I will be Mom instead of Bob! He loves talking and screaming and using his voice. It's so cute!

Another cool thing is that Ryan started standing on his own for long periods of time! He started doing it a few days ago. Not only is he standing alone, but he is trying to walk! It is so dang cute! There is a video of it, but I did it on our digital camera and I always forget that videos should never be recorded up and down! Sorry! I hope you can still see how cute it is!

Ryan clapping

Ryan trying to walk

Ryan's new bath toy. Hilarious!

Ryan fake laughing. He does this all the time. Watch him spit out his water from his sippy. His bib is soaked every meal!

This is Ryan doing a lot of the things he's learned the past few months. Although, his clap is much better now!

This is just a super cute video of Ryan. Sorry for the video overload!

10 Month Pictures

I wanted to edit using Photoshop (I got it for Christmas), but it is 100 times harder than I thought it would be. I have a lot to learn and not enough time so my goal is to have his one year pictures edited on Photoshop. Hopefully by then, I'll have learned something!

Here is my cutie patootie. We love him so much. He is the cutest baby and has the funnest personality. We love you Ryan!