Reading in the car!
We use bread as a distractor at restaurants. He loves it!!!
Monday, January 24th at 10 months old, Beck became a BIG BROTHER!!! We tell him every day, "you're a big brother!" He laughs and squeals and loves it, but he has no idea what we're telling him. Ha!Beck at 10 months. Well we just keep getting closer and closer to that ONE YEAR mark. Tear. My looks more and more like a little boy every day. And acts like one too! My favorite thing he does right now is give hugs. He gives me hugs ALL day. He wraps his arms around my neck, buries his face in my shoulder, and scratches my back with his little fingers. SO sweet.
What's Beck up to this month. Well, he LOVES to drop something and pick it up, usually while he's standing. He'll do this over and over and over, especially if he has an audience who is cheering him on! It never gets old. I posted a video of him dropping his rag in the bath tub over and over... He also loves to read. He has always loved to be read to, but now he loves to hold the book and look through the pages by himself. He really likes his Baby Einstein flash cards too. We go over and over them and he likes to sort through them on his own. Thanks Aunt Jamie!!!
Isn't that boy crawling yet!? Nope! He will army crawl when all else fails and he just has to have something, but he wouldn't dare get up on those knees, and he generally just cries if he can't stand up. He's gotten very quick at surfing the couch and walking behind his walker. As I was putting this blog together (2 weeks late) he started crawling! So I had to give a sneak preview. Check out the video below!
Beck's playmate. I have started watching a friend's little boy and Beck's longtime bestie, Mason, two days a week. Beck LOVES IT! And so do I!! Beck is very entertained by Mason who is 6 months older than Beck. While it is VERY different to have a little guy who can go from room to room and drag out more toys than I can keep up with, I realize Beck will be there very soon! It seems as though Beck's wheels are turning as he watches Mason go from room to room and handle toys in a different way than himself. I think he's putting it all together in his mind and will soon shock me one day by imitating Mason. Beck and I look forward to Mason coming over each week!
My baby was sick :( This month Beck caught something nasty. Flu? Who knows?! But it wasn't good. For two solid days he ran a 102 fever, was puny, and pathetic, lasting over a week. It was his first taste of baby Tylenol. He took it like a champ. He was such a sad fella. He just wanted to be held constantly. He didn't want to nap in his crib, so we all took turns letting him nap on us. Even Mimi got a chance to experience this sweet boy while he was sick, sadly he rubbed off on her a little too much and she came down with it too. Oops!
What's that kid eatin!? Well this month I nursed him between 4-5 times a day. I also starting feeding him table food more, two-three times a day. He eats a soft-boiled (5 minutes) egg (yolk only) in the morning with a little banana. Then he eats 1/4 of an avocado for lunch with a veggie, such as broccoli, green beans, or butternut squash. At dinner we'll let him have about 5 banana flavored puffs. He loves playing with them and he loves eating them, but hasn't grasped the concept that he can feed them to himself yet. He also started using a sippy cup. Funny story there. So I picked him up from BSF (bible study fellowship) nursery one week and the lady handed him to me and said "he did much better when we gave him a sippy cup this week. all the other kids have "sippy cup time" and he didn't have one, so we let him use ours. So could you bring his sippy cup from now on so he'll have one?" And I thought "sippy cup!? What sippy cup!? My son doesn't have a sippy cup!? I didn't even know he could use a sippy cup!" So we went out that day and bought one. Sure enough, he was a pro at it!
Beck went for a 10 month check-up since his growth slowed so much between 6-9 months.
9 month vs 10 month stats:
18lb 2oz vs 18lb 12oz
27.5 in vs 27.75 in
45 cm vs 45.75 cm
11.19% weight vs 11.05% weight
19.95% length vs 14.89% length
Basically what all this means is that he is fine, and has reset his growth rate. In the first 6 months of his life he nearly went straight up on his growth chart, while the average growth rate is at a gradual curve. After 6 months Beck slowed down drastically, nearly plateauing for 3 months, and is now back on a very slow curve up. Most importantly, throughout his growth he has stayed between the 2 outer lines on the growth curve which signal too much or too little growth. Dr. Blanke said it will be interesting to see what my other children do on their growth charts. This may be a pattern that all my children follow due to genetics, or could just be specific to Beck. We'll see. Either way, Blanke is not concerned anymore and Beck will resume on the typical schedule and be reseen at 12 months.
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