10 months old today....

Here are Zach's 10 month Stats:

1. He has 6 teeth (2 on bottom & 4 on top), and he is working on his 7th.

2. He sleeps 11 hours at night from 9p.m. until 8a.m. (give or take a half hour), and 3-4 hours during the day.

3. He is crawling everywhere, pulling to a stand, stands briefly without holding on to anything, and is cruising/walking along furniture. He has also recently taken to walking behind his activity table as it slides across the wood floor.

4. He can say Mama & Baba.. and appears to know that Baba is his bottle, although he doesn't ask for it by name.

5. He loves to play chase... he will crawl as fast as his little legs will take him, turn around and see if you are still after him, and then crawl some more. All while cracking up.

6. He has disliked baths for the last month, and will scream & claw at you through the entire thing.

7. He has made the sign for more a few times, can clap his hands together, and bang to objects together.

8. His entire face lights up whenever his sister is around. She can always get him giggling.

9. He is a picky eater. I'm a little worried about what the future may hold for us with this. He HATES his bottle, and pretty much has to be held down to drink it. If he decides he doesn't want a particular food, he will start gagging at the sight of it. For example, he has decided for whatever reason the Gerber Graduates Apples are sickening to look at , so he will gag until he pukes if you try to even put one on his tray.

10. He doesn't like to be restrained, sit on your lap, go in an exersaucer, pack n play or high chair. He wants to be free, to crawl, to move. He loves the fridge, the bottom of the stove, VCR, cords, fireplace poker & candle.

11. Zach loves "hiding" things under the couch. He will make a game of putting all of his toys under the couch, and then lifting up the flap to see where they are. He also likes to line things up on the window sill, take all of the objects out of a container and then put them back in.

12. He is still a Momma's boy. He won't go to many people outside of Ben & I.., my parents, Kim at daycare and an occasional Nursery worker at church. He always greets me with a smile in the morning & loves to bury his little head in my neck!

13. His smile brings such joy to our family, and we can't even imagine life without him!