10 months!

This month has been so incredibly fun and so incredibly hard at the same time!  I'll get to the hard part.  Colby continues to be an incredible joy.  He is such a happy boy and loves to love.  He is so so active... climbing, pushing, pulling, opening, shutting, cruising, crawling, and head butting.  Yes, the head butting continues with even more passion this month.

New this month:
- Tooth #3
- waving hi and bye
- started a new weekly music class.  This was perfectly timed because he is SO into music.  Whenever a song comes on, from a toy or even my music on my iphone, he rocks his little body and smiles so big.  If he's standing up he'll even bounce a little.  So music class will be a hit I know.
- standing on his own for a few seconds.  As soon as he realizes what he is doing he sits down!

Sad this month:
- First earache at the beginning of the month.  He had a day that he just would not lay down to go to sleep.  He was crying so hard and after it happened the second time I really wondered if something was wrong.  Then that night he was up every hour and I knew there was a problem.  We ended up "sleeping" in the recliner and on the couch and were at the doctor's office first thing.  Funny part... our normal doctor wasn't available so we saw someone else.  I explained to her my concerns and that I wanted to just rule out an ear infection.  Then she starts smiling at me politely and explaining rather condescendingly how this age is the prime time for the onset of separation anxiety.  Then she looked at his ears and said, "I've been wrong before, that's what we call a double ear infection."  I felt redeemed ;)

- The REALLY sad part of the month was when Colby got hand, foot, and mouth.  Wow... that stuff was ROUGH.  He woke up on a Sunday morning with a fever over 104.  We headed to urgent care and the doctor there discovered the sores in his throat.  We were able to control the fever with medicine for the most part after that, but the sores were not to be controlled.  He refused everything but nursing and was SO unhappy you could hardly put him down.  It was so sad to not be able to comfort him.  Probably 3 days later I noticed some improvement and then 5 days later a lot of improvement.  Now we have our happy boy back and I could not be more grateful!

Eating and sleeping continue to be the same.  We are trying more and more table foods.  He loves green beans, carrots, and bananas.  Today he had his first itty bitty bit of rice krispie treat thanks to his Gran.  Loved it.

More and more new sounds.  Ma, pa, da, ta, and na.  Whichever one he is working on is the first one he says when he wakes up.  And since he's learning to wave, he does that in his crib when he first wakes up too.  

We had a visit at the doctor this week just to make sure that the ears were completely cleared.  This boy weighed in at 22 lbs and 2 oz!  He practically runs using his walker and along the couch and has even taken a step to move between two things.  With fall approaching I can't help but think of life this time last year.  I was anticipating a little boy who would change my world.  Has he ever.  Being his mom is the purest joy!