Graham: 10 Months

Graham at 10 months is fun!  This month something clicked in Graham and his development has just taken off, he is climbing stairs, pulling himself up, getting into absolutely everything, starting to talk and definitely keeping us on our toes.

Graham 10 month tid bits:

• He is big.  He is heavy and looks like a pig in a blanket stuffed in his infant carseat.  He is wearing Grady's 18 mos pajamas and filling them out quite well!
• He is very stealthy moving through the house with lightening speed and hardly any noise.
• His greatest joy is making a break for Bella's water bowls or the toilet to attempt to play in the water (see above item) - gross!
• So far he has three or four "words" but does not say them with any type of regularity or consistency so I am not claiming that they count, but they are "all done", "dada", "duck" and "Ga Ga" for Grady.  No love for the Momma yet.
• He is obsessed with the Bells.  She mostly puts up with his pulling on her ears and tail.
• He continues to be a big time eater, often putting back more than his big brother in a single sitting.  I didn't think that he was completely ready for all people food until he swiped a french fry out of my hand and downed it without a problem.  The kid will eat almost anything other than the one food I thought all babies loved, bananas.
• He has started to imitate us. Grady has gotten into "dancing" lately and little brother loves trying to imitate his unique style. 
• He is such a joiner and still so easy to make smile or laugh.  He is just a happy, social little dude.
• He's got two more teeth coming in for a total of 8 teeth!
• He loves playing on the trampoline and being bounced around by Grady.
• He is still a really good traveler and can take a few hours in the car before even making a peep.
• The kid is still not 100% percent sleeping through the night (come on!), but he is getting better. I refuse to have a one year old who cannot make it through the night so he continues to be a victim of sleep bootcamp training.  He is such a lug and just wants milk.  I am OK if it is 5:30, but any earlier than that and he must really cry pretty desperately before I'll give him what he wants.
• He is seriously the most flexible baby I have ever seen.  He stretches his legs out to beyond 180 degrees with regularity.
• He may be an army crawler for life, or at least until he walks.  It looks like traditional crawling is just too normal for Graham as he prefers the much more awkward and labor intensive army crawl.
• He is a water baby making a break for the pool, toilet, bath, lake, basically whatever has water whenever he gets a chance. 
• He loves watching Grady take his baths and loves playing in his own bath.  He blows bubbles often choking back mouthfuls of water with a combination of coughing and laughing. 
• He plays independently so well!  He prefers big boy toys like trucks and cars. 
• He is just the sweetest most wonderful baby ever.   Our nanny says when she "grows up" she wants a baby just like him. We love Graham baby more than we could ever explain.   

Despite taking the wait and see approach and hearing that most clogged tear ducts clear up on their own, Graham has still been bothered by a clogged tear duct in his right eye.  He has his second eye appointment on Monday where we are hoping they can clear it so that we can avoid having to put him under. All good thoughts and prayers are welcome!  We are lucky that so far he has taken it all in stride,  the ophthalmologist told us that is the only baby she has ever seen who didn't cry or fuss at all when getting his eyes dilated.  

By way of comparison, here is Grady boy at 10 months: 

 

And here are some Graham comparable pics.