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 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 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.
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Him and Eli are so different and so similar in so many ways! I wish we were raising them together! They're just a little less than one month apart. Eli wont let me feed him! But he sucks with a spoon, so we're in a funny time where he's trying to eat with the spoon, resorting to his hands, and it's a HUGE mess! It went from messy, to clean (when he'd let me feed him), and back to messy... He's crawling all over the place, and even standing, but wont play peekaboo! I've tried so hard! He only chases his sister around ... everywhere... it is so funny. She runs around the kitchen and he crawls behind her laughing. I'm starting to pump less... and though I feel some guilt about it, taking that time and going on a walk outside when I have a break in my work... it is so amazing... He is still breastfeeding when I am home, and I am still pumping once a day when I'm at work. I will not be sad to lose the pump when he is a year old... not sad at all. Cannot wait to see you guys, we get out schedules on March 7! I plan to buy tickets to europe the next day!!
ReplyDeleteThey're exactly similar in their charmingness and getting everything they want. I actually made a mommy mistake the other day. Isa (who you've met) is sweet, and never really insists on "Taking her turn" or anything. She was eating a cracker, he screamed (Isa never screamed when she wanted something), and I took half of it from her and gave it to him, and she just sat and cried. And I realized... that Eli is such a charmer - smiley, adorable, and also very fiery and adamant - he screams when he wants something. But it's not fair to take things from her to pacify him, AND I need to teach him that screaming is NOT how to get what he wants.
Delete1. Feel no guilt for pumping less. I'm impressed you're still pumping. I quit it long time ago cause I just hated it.
Delete2. It's so great that those two get along so well. I can't wait to see them.
3. It's funny that Eli gets what he wants as well. Their charm is a dangerous weapon. Like you, I sometimes worry that I let him get away with things he shouldn't have. Ugh that smile!
He's so beautiful. I am eagerly awaiting an opportunity to meet him and be charmed in person. Although his is also charming in blog form.
ReplyDeleteNina started clapping too! She's been waving, to us, to strangers, to anyone! She's now starting to get an attitude, crying when she wants something. Oh lord. The very first inklings of tantrum. Great.
There he was all dressed up for his grandma, normal attire includes sweatpants and fleece full of food stain (like mother like son)
DeleteOh miss Nina pants, of course way ahead in everything. The attitude?? I wonder where that's coming from ;)
OMG - is it, her father?!?!!? He's sooo attitudey. Wait... that's not right... Then where???
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