Moo update: 10 months

This boy is more and more fun every day (except when he's teething). Here are the highlights:

Favorite foods: anything carbs--especially bread. He also loves bananas, green beans, yogurt, puffs, sweet potatoes, almost any meat, and cheese.

Most hilarious trick right now: He crawls over to our stereo and knows that if he pushes enough buttons, music will come on. More often than not, it's the radio, and more often than not, he finds the rap station. Then, he proceeds to dance by bobbing up and down and shaking his hands in the air. After that, he leaves the music on and crawls away to play, stopping every now and then to do a little more dancing. Ironic since his momma is so self-conscious about dancing. :) 

Other tricks: waving, making his "silly face" (a gummy grin with a scrunched nose), putting his hands up in the air for "so big," giving fives, taking rings off a tower and putting them back on, and mimicking sounds (makes a high pitched noise when he sees a picture of an ambulance or a cat).

Favorite activities:

• Playing with Raffe in bed when he wakes up 
• Eating Cola Bear's nose and snuggling him
• Eating Animal Farm (still)
• Crawling through his tunnel
• Playing with his Things That Go sound puzzle
• Throwing balls and then chasing them
• Banging anything that's loud on the floor 
• Shaking his shakers
• Swinging outside
• Going on walks
• Walking to the end of the street to look at all the cars that come to the three-way stop
• Spinning any kind of wheel
• Turning off light switches
• Opening and closing doors and cabinets
• Touching buttons and knobs
• Kissing his mama and dada

Not really into:

• Reading...except before nap or bedtime. He wants to move and explore too much!
• Getting his diaper changed or getting dressed
• cruising or walking

What he's saying: 

• dada (his favorite), baba, mama, nana, rara, gaga, and a whole jumble of other things usually peppered with some squealing. 
• He's started saying "dada" and "mama" discriminately, which is just precious. However, since Phil's been working so much, he now says "dada" when I'm on the phone because he's so used to "talking" with Phil on speaker phone when he's gone. Cute-sad.

Quirks:

• Has an extremely high pain tolerance. He'll crawl over to me and have a knot on his head I never knew about because he didn't cry. The good news is that when he does cry, I know he's really hurt.
• Loves to bite our noses and starts laughing when he does it because he thinks he's so funny.
• Goes on an eating strike when he's teething.
• Thinks every ceiling fan should be on at all times.