Ten Months

This post is a little late... Baby Emerson is a kid now. He has a fun and slightly crazy personality, is extremely active and mobile, and he just doesn’t look like a little baby anymore. I do miss when he was teeny (well he’s still pretty light—20 lbs!), but as kids get older they become really fun. I have to admit, I still go into his room every night before we go to bed to check on him, and I always come back into our room and say, “That kid… I just love him.” Do parents still check on their kids like that when they’re rebellious teenagers?

Here’s what E has been up to:

- Almost walking. He is cruising on everything and has mastered the stand-in-place-for-20-seconds-without-holding-on-to-anything move. I’m really hoping it takes him a long time to walk; I think he’s going to be a lot faster than me and I’m scared.

- He loves cheese. Just devours it. We usually have it with veggies for lunch. Also tried pasta and ate it so quickly it made me a little frightened he may have inherited my carb and cheese addictions.

- Eats meat in nice little jars of pureed food, mixed with grains and veggies. He hasn’t made the plunge into eating real pieces of meat yet.

- Still in love with his Eric Carle elephant (thank you Laura).

- He is actually starting to sit and pay attention to books during reading time every morning; he is even pointing to the pictures and helps me turn the pages.

- Already gave him another hair cut. If only my hair would grow as fast as his.

- He’s had his bottom two teeth since about 7 months, but is just now getting top teeth. And get this, they aren’t the middle top two teeth, but the fangs! We joked with our friends that he should be a vampire for Halloween.

Look how happy he is with Jamie…

Trying to hang on to Scarlett.

I think he actually kind of looks like me in this below picture; maybe it’s just the expression, or the hand.

Sometimes I help my working friends by watching their kiddos during the day; Emerson and Seiji have so much fun together… makes babysitting easy.

I went to lunch with some friends from my old company and stopped by the office beforehand to say hi to everyone. My old boss gave Emerson this soft baseball toy; he is obsessed with it. He crawls around all day holding it. I’m really excited he’s liking the baseball, because let’s face it, he’s probably not going to be a football player if his weight stays in the 5th%!

We’re off to see his little girlfriend this week for her 1 year birthday. Can’t wait!