10 Months

I can't believe that Palmer is already 10 months old. 2 more months and we'll have a 1 year old! Here's the update on our lil' Palmer-buddy:

-Palmer is really becoming his own little person. It's so much fun to see him develop his personality and figure out stuff. I feel like he is really just starting to "get it". -He has 7 teeth that are currently showing! The last tooth that came in was not pleasant for all in the house but you feel bad for the poor kid.

-He is still extremely large for his age :) but I feel like he's starting to lose just a little bit of pudge (mostly around his face). He is wearing 18 month clothes. Holy moly- it freaked me out when I looked at the tags of some of his clothes and it said "toddler".

-He crawls all over the entire house pulling himself up to anything and everything. Unfortunately some of those things aren't very stable- such as the cheap Ikea chairs in the picture below, our garbage can which came crashing down along with him and spilled dirty garbage all over him. Guess he'll just have to learn! He's getting so tough though; so many times he'll fall and hit his head and just get right back up to doing whatever he was doing before the fall.
-He now can entertain himself for quite a long time which is great for me getting stuff done around the house. Too bad a lot of that time is fixing the things that he has undone!

-For awhile he was a pretty rough sleeper during the night. He would wake up and not go back to sleep for a couple of hours. Luckily this week he has improved dramatically and we've enjoyed sleeping through the night again.

-When he waves good-bye it's so cute because he waves at himself rather than the other person.

-He's still spitting up! Aargh! For awhile he was doing so great and I thought he was over it. Nope! And now he plays in it, crawls through it, and makes a mess everywhere.

-Often when we hand him any sort of vehicle with wheels (tractor, car, truck, etc.) he makes an engine sound. Guess he learned to love these things from his daddy!
-For the most part he is a great eater and now wants to grab the spoon before it gets to his mouth and feed himself.

-He claps his hands when we say "yay".

-He's learning how to throw a fit when I take something away from him.

-When I start up his bath he will come crawling up to the bathtub with a big grin on his face and will just stand there and watch it fill up.
-He is a constant chatterbox. There is always a sound coming out of his mouth and when there isn't it usually means he's up to some sort of trouble (or he has put something into his mouth). Lately his sounds have really become more like "talking". I feel like he's really trying to tell us something. -He can now say "momma" and "dadda". Usually my name is accompanied with crying. He just repeats my name over and over again while he is upset.

-When he hears a noise outside (dog, garbage truck, motorcycle, etc.) or sees something unusual (like the snow falling the other day) he looks around, gets wide eyed, and says "Oh!"

-He is like a little puppy dog. He's always sticking something in his mouth and crawling all over the house with it hanging out of his mouth. Here are just a few examples of catching him in the act.

Here are some other pictures taken this month that I like. He's getting so hard to take pictures of because he just wants to be all over the place or he is so fascinated that he doesn't want to look up at the camera.

*Halloween Post Coming Soon*