10 Months Old!

Can you believe I'm ten months old already? Wow! I'm growing up too fast for my mommy. Do you like this picture of me doing my favorite thing? Everything I can find goes in my mouth. I get into a lot more things than my brother did. He never chewed on electrical cords. I do. He never banged on the television. I do. He never put his hands in the potty. I do. But it's not all my fault. My brother has so many interesting toys and I like them so much better than mine. One of my favorite things is his easel. I love to crawl over there, pull up, and try to eat the chalk and magnetic letters. One day, my mommy saw me getting into the chalk and she came over to pick me up and tell me "No chalk for you" but when I grinned at her, a long blue drool came out of my mouth. I was so fast, I was already eating the chalk! I'm so sneaky. After that though, they put the chalk and letters up high so I can't get to them. But I'm still on the lookout for other things I can get into.

Do you like this picture of me and the pumpkins? I loved them. I also loved throwing them. If you ask me to throw something, I can do it really far. I love to play catch. Maybe I'll be a baseball pitcher when I grow up.

When my mommy says, "Kick your feet, baby, kick your feet" I kick them as hard as I can and laugh and laugh. When she says, "Can you jump?" I bounce up and down and squeal. I can also climb the stairs. My doctor said I wasn't supposed to be doing that yet, but nobody told me. I can go all the way up by myself, but to be safe, one of my parents goes behind me so I won't fall.

I had my 9 month checkup two weeks ago and I'm healthy as can be. My brother didn't have a 9 month checkup at his old pediatrician, so I don't have exact comparisons, but I can tell you that I'm taller at 9 months (30 3/4 inches) than he was at a year (30 inches). But unless I gain a lot of weight in the next two months, he's going to outweigh me. I weigh 22 pounds right now and he weighed 24 pounds at a year. So at this checkup, I was in the 100th percentile on height, 95th on head circumference, and 75th on weight. I'm just so busy, I burn off all my calories as fast as I take them in.

One more bit of good news. I get my helmet off next week. Woo hoo! My parents have a feeling more bumps and bruises are in store since I'm so used to the protection.