Corbin is 10 months! What?! Did I type that right? Yes, 10 months. I can’t believe it. I never trusted those women who said they grow fast, but I can honestly say that it is true! I remember the day of his birth like it was yesterday, and 10 months have gone by? Wow. There were definite moments where a day felt like a year, but now that we are nearing his year mark I look back at pictures when he was a newborn and my brain is foggy, I don’t remember some of those moments. It made me grateful we have taken so many pictures!
I will say that the first 6 months were very rough. I struggled in so many different ways with a new baby, and dealing with Corbin’s personality. I wasn’t able to distinguish (and still can’t) if it was more his personality, or me adjusting to parenthood, maybe both, but boy did I struggle. I feel like the older he is getting the more pleasant we are both to be around (ask Kevin!) it must be this age. I am really digging the 8-10 month old age. He is very animated, shows his interest and disinterest in toys and food, and makes us laugh with silly facial expressions, or noises he makes with his mouth. He is sleeping way better as well! (goes down around 7-7:30 and sleeps to about 530-where depending on my mood I will either go in and feed him and he’ll sleep til 7, or I let him doze in and out of sleep til 7 until I can get my bearings and get out of bed) We’ve had our ups and downs with sleep, but I feel that is to be expected the first year. I can’t believe what growing machines these babies are! Growth spurts, teething, sleep cycle adjustments, and milestones all seem to affect their mood and sleep. He is taking 2 1.5 hr naps and I really rely on those to get things done around the house, or for some “me” time.
He is really enjoying food more and is pretty much eating whatever we eat. I am really into those food pouches though, when we run errands or out and about he loves to snack on those. He has 8 teeth still and looking like there might be more popping in, we will have to wait and see. He is into spaghetti or any pasta really, loves finger foods like, olives, string cheese, bread, and yogurt melts!
He thinks diaper or clothe changes are a game where when we lay him on his back he thinks that’s code for “flip over now and run away!” so we have fun *trying* to distract him as we use our superhuman fast skills and change, wipe, and re-diaper the child! He use to like bath time, but now it’s turned into a game of standing up and reaching for mom, while mom puts baby right back down to just have baby stand right back up and try to crawl out. Very exhausting!
He’s got this army crawl thing going on and it is cute, I don’t think he will ever do the classic way of crawling with stomach off the floor, and that is just fine with me. He seems to be content and very fast with his “style”. He seems to prefer to be on his feet anyways, I think one day we were playing around and held his hands and helped him take steps and that boy fell in love, he LOVES walking with our help, and I don’t say that lightly. He would seriously walk all day if we let him, it was a real struggle for a while when I had to go to the bathroom, or do dishes (how dare I?!) and MAKE him sit on his bum and for me to get to hear the lovely blood curdling scream come from him because he didn’t get what he wanted. Oh, that was fun. This lasted about a month or so as I would leave him, and he would refuse to crawl, only sit there and cry so hard that he was sitting in his puddle of tears and snot. That struggle was rough. But with help from Kevin and other friend’s advice, we taught him that he can’t always “walk” the way he wants and now he tolerates it when I put him down, but jumps at the chance to go for a walk with us! I wonder if that means he will be an early walker, or make him just rely on us more? Hmmm, we will see!
He loves it when we read to him, especially before bed time, he loves “Good Night Moon” and “Good Night Little One” both by the same author and he sits quietly and helps me turn the pages. He has seemed to catch on to our night routine and has taken to a blanket as we cuddle him in it and turn out the lights to say good-night he goes to sleep quickly. I feel like we have FINALLY gotten to a point where he is on a very consistent schedule. It feels nice to have some predictability and know what is expected day to day. Of course some days are “off”, but for the most part we seem to FINALLY have a calm sweet spot going on! I hope I don’t jinx it by sharing it in this post! It seems to go that way, have a few really good weeks, then BAM the worst week pops up out of no-where, but such is life, right? I guess that’s what keeps us on our toes.
At his last Dr. check-up (9 months) he weighed 23 lbs 4 oz and was 29.75 inches tall. Some milestones I am noticing during the last month or so is him pulling himself up in his crib and other furniture, crawling in a quick manner (when I say crawl, I mean army crawl), putting himself in a sitting position from laying down, feeding himself, saying “da-da” and sometimes “mama” but I haven’t heard that one in a while. He also started waving, but again, haven’t seen him do that in a little while.
This was a more detailed post than in the past, I can’t believe the growth I have seen the last little while, and I definitely want to remember it all!
I put together a little video of him crawling up the stairs, and walking with dad and his walker. This boy doesn’t seem to like to smile for the camera and is shy in public but we sure get to see all sides of him throughout the day. We love him!
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