10 Months...

Hunter Cole,

...I cannot believe I am writing your 10 month post.  You will be one year old in just two short months.  I feel like it was just yesterday that we brought you home from the hospital.

...You are 18 1/2 lbs, not sure about your height.

...You are still wearing mostly 6-12 month clothes, some 6-9 and some 12 month stuff.  It varies.  Still in size 3 diapers, but in cloth when we are home.

...You haven't been sick anymore since your hospital stay, thank goodness.  I've tried to keep you home more in hopes that we prevent any more sickness.  It's hard to stay home all the time though, you get stir crazy just like I do.

...No new teeth this month, still 4 on top and 2 on bottom.  You are constantly trying to bite me and everyone else.  I tell you no, but you just smile at me.  I'm hoping you grow out of this soon.

...Still crawling everywhere and pulling up on everything.  You are starting to let go while standing up for a VERY brief second.  You love to push your 4-wheeler everywhere.  You also do pretty good pushing your walk behind toys everywhere in the house.

...You had your 1st Valentines Day this month.  We got you a cars 4-wheeler, a book, and a couple of onesies.

...You haven't been back to MDO, but will go next week.  I kept you home after the hospital for 2 weeks and then/now it was fall break.  I think it's good for you to be around other kids your age.

...you are still patty caking.  You will also roll 'em up and throw them in the pan, but we never can get you to do it all together.  You are also waving, but only when you want to.  Sometimes I can get you to point to my nose when I ask you where it's at, other times you aren't interested.

...you still love Dora.  It actually blows my mind how much you love her show.  You will sit perfectly still and watch it the entire 30 minutes if I let you.  I try to limit the amount of TV you watch per day, usually I don't like you to watch more than one show because you also watch TV in the car.

...You are eating  3 solid meals per day and still nursing several times.  I have just started trying to wean you some.  I would like to get to 2-3 nursing sessions per day and the rest bottle/sippy cup.  You eat everything we eat.  You had cake for Kelsie's birthday and it made you so hyper. You didn't go to bed until after 11 that night.  Logan also gave you your 1st chocolate chip cooking and you ate every bit of it.

...You still are not sleeping through the night.  You are up 2-5 times per night usually.  It's rough, but luckily I can nap with you during the day.  You are starting to take longer naps...1 to 1 1/2 hours instead of 40min!

...You spent time with Nana, Poppy, Logan, Nicole, Aunt Lisa, Samantha, Aunt Joann and Brittany this month.  You were also away from me from Wednesday around 1 until Friday morning.  That was the longest time we had been apart.  I was scheduled to work Wednesday and Thursday night and Aunt Cole kept you at Nana's.  I missed you like crazy, but know that it's okay for you to be away from me some.

...Your daddy has been working away this month, so he's been gone all week.  Thankfully, he's back home most nights now.

...We got you a tricycle that we can push and you love to ride it.  We spent about 45 minutes on it the other day while Daddy rotated his tires.

...You say Da-Da all the time.  I've also heard you say Nana, Momma, and uh-oh.  Da-da is definitely your favorite though.

...You love to play with Jordan and Logan.  You will spend all day chasing them if they will let you.

...You got your 1st boo-boo.  I came home from work Friday morning and you had a scratch under your right eye.  Daddy had put you in the bed with him and you woke up, he didn't.  He thinks you reached for the nightstand, hit the corner of it and then fell off the bed.  Good think Momma wasn't here, because I would have been a hot mess.  Although, you did fall off the bed with me only a few weeks before that.  We were spending the night at Aunt Cole's and you were sleeping in the bed with me, pushed off of my side and fell off the bed on your head.  You cried for 2.5 seconds and then went right back to sleep.  Poor guy, I know there are many more bumps and bruises to come.