Jaron - 10 Months

Jaron turned 10 months last week.  2 more months and he's a year!?  Crazy!

It's been a pretty good month for Jaron.

Jaron is finally crawling on all 4's about 90% of the time.  When he gets excited and is on our wood floor he'll still army crawl places I think he think's it's faster, even though I don't think it is.  He's getting pretty fast on all 4's.

Jaron is eating a ton.  He's eating, cheese, strawberries, beans, bread, pasta.  He loves to eat and the girls love to feed him.  His formula amount has gone down but I try to get in as much as I can.  He also eats everything on the floor.  The girls didn't do this as much as I see Jaron do it.  Although my floors were a lot cleaner back then without 2-2 year olds dropping food when they eat.

I do think we've finally hit a good spot on napping.  He's sleeping about 1 1/2 hours 2 times a day.  I still think he should sleep more but at least it's consistent and he's not waking up as much in the middle of naps. When he does, he usually goes back to sleep after about 5 minutes.

Jaron has really started wanting to interact with his sisters.  He'll crawl over and you can tell he's just interested in what they're doing. Unfortunately he's the third wheel and is not usually welcomed.  I try to get the girls to include him from time to time and they do sometimes, but most of the time they don't like him around when they're playing.  I guess I don't blame them, but he's going to need to have some friends over when he gets older.

Jaron has started babbling a lot more.  Just like his sisters it's been pretty limited but he's now clearly babbling and saying...bababa, yayaya, mamama, things like that.  He started waving bye bye but we cannot get him to clap. In fact if I try to take his hands and clap them, he gets mad and pulls them away.  Which also reminds me, he has a temper.  He has started screaming if he gets frustrated, gets something taken away or wants something he can't have.  Boy oh boy are we in for it!

Jaron LOVES the water.  We got our water table out and he crawls right over and stands up and splashes away.  He doesn't care when he gets splashed and when he's in the tub I just throw water over his head and he doesn't even react.  We went on a trip this last weekend and he loved sitting in his little floatie splashing in the pool.  He could've stayed there for hours.

I'm loving this age with him right now.  He got over his crying phase when I leave the room for the most part. He still does it occasionally but for the most part is just happy and crawls around finding everything so interesting.  He's a smiley, content little guy that we love having in our family.