10 Months Old!

And pictures to prove it. ;)

Drool!

Playing with rocks

Being silly

Watch me go!

Annoyed with my picture taking

Graham cracker smile

Hiding in the closet

More rocks

Bittersweet

The word that seems to define my daily life with my little man right now.

Trevor is sleeping in his own room now. After one long night of a screaming baby and imagining smothering my loudly snoring husband with my pillow, we decided we might all sleep better if we moved Trev into the room across the hall. He has been in there almost two weeks now. The first week sleep was really no different, but this past week things have been smoothing out. He has seemingly dropped his afternoon nap and moved his bedtime up an hour, and in turn is sleeping MUCH better through the night. Instead of waking every couple of hours, I'm now getting 4-6 hour stretches which is wonderful. Plus, instead of going to bed at 7:30 and waking at 6am, he is now going to bed at 6:30 and waking at 8am. Go figure. While the extra sleep is nice, and he does occasionally end up in our bed, I miss having him so near to me all night long.

Today, Trevor signed milk (for nursing) for the very first time. I've been signing it to him for a few months now, and this morning he surprised me by crawling into my lap, signing for milk and tugging on my shirt. He was SO proud of himself when he realized that he communicated to me exactly what he wanted and got it. I was just as proud. Now I need to pick a few more signs to work on with him.

And, to top it all off he is saying "Mama" now. Today Josh was putting himself in between me and Trevor and saying "My Mama" and Trevor started whining and said Mama twice as clear as day while he was reaching for me. He has been trying to say it for awhile now, but today it was so clear and it was obvious that he knew that Mama meant me. Josh is a little jealous that he hasn't said Dada yet, but I have a feeling it won't be long. Dada is becoming the cool kid lately.

My little baby is growing so quickly into a little boy and it is oh-so bittersweet.

Random Snippets of Our Latest Happenings

I figured I might post a new blog considering I did start it to keep you all from going into Trevor withdrawals while we are away. ;)

I don't always have my video camera at my side (bad mommy) but I do usually have my cell phone. So for your viewing pleasure, here are some random cell phone videos from the past few weeks, all of which are 30 seconds or less. :)

Putting his blocks away

Stacking Blocks


Slurping water off the porch


Attempting to say "Mama"


And these three were from this afternoon. He had the BEST time playing with the water hose!






So, that is what we have been up to...in not-so-high-definition-crappy-cell-phone-video style!