Blueberry is 10 months!!

Thank you  for all your encouraging phone calls, emails and text messages after my "the shadow" post. I didn't realize a lot of mothers were sharing similar feelings. Some exciting things are happening in my life right now and I'll share with you on another post but I'm well and feeling better everyday.

My sweet little son has 10 months. It's really interesting to witness how every interaction becomes progressively more complex, reciprocal and fun.

He loves to play peekaboo but now he can coordinate his hands to hide himself behind a towel and lift it up quickly. And of course then he cracks up.

He is a charmer, he is very smiley, and always gets what he wants not only from me (he knows he doesn't even have to smile to me) but from everybody else as well.

He still LOVES eating, and nobody can get between him and his food. He pretends to chew his mashed food. Since he is so cultivated, he refuses to use his fingers to eat food in little pieces, instead he wants me to feed him with a fork or he tries to eat with a spoon.

In addition to clapping, he learned how to wave good-bye, touch his head to say hello (something Turkish), and my favorite: he raises his fist when I say "revolution"! But every now and then he confuses all and does revolution instead of good-bye and claps yayy when he needs to say hello. Oh well!

He has one tooth that's finally coming...He is late on so many milestones but hey still ahead of his mama who apparently had her first tooth around 12 months...

He seems to finally like the crèche, he is comfortable, smiley and social. But just very recently, he started crying behind us when we leave, I was expecting this would happen and trying to prepare myself but still, I do not like it!

He loves music and points to the radio so that we turn the music on. At every little pause between songs, he stops and looks at the CD player to see when the next song will start.

Yaya is in love!

And he still doesn't crawl, goes only backwards. He hates rolling over, he gets very angry when he rolls over. It's like so energy consuming. Why would anybody do that?

Men in labor!

I came across this hilarious video through a friend. This is the video of two men experiencing labor contractions through some electric device that simulates childbirth. It's a bit long but you can just skim through.

I'm not sure how accurately this device simulates the labor pain but it's funny to see how they really look like women in labor....They could barely handle it for 2 hours....Now how about 10 hours of that plus 5 hours of pushing gentlemen???