TEN months!!

Yeppers, Ethan Bear is now ten whole months old. Amazing. I'll try to refrain from the usual "oh my goodness, my baby is growing up so fast," and just catch you up on life with Ethan.

His personality is still growing every day. You saw the laugh, and it's still a regular occurance. He's gotten lots of attention for the laugh. He does it at home a lot, and sometimes when we're out, and people just love it. He's such a goof ball. His dancing is still going strong as well, he'll shimmy and shake pretty much every time he hears music. His favorite music to dance to is 50's, 40's, and the song his Pooh car plays. He also likes to sing sometimes too, but usually only in church when we're singing too.

He's not walking yet, and I'm liking it. He crawls and cruises fast enough already, I need the walking to hold off a little while, at least until it gets warm enough to run around outside. He loves crawling though, especially when he's being chased. If we say, "Ethan, I'm gonna get you," he takes off crawling and laughing until you catch him. Of course, sometimes he crawls toward us instead of away, but it makes him happy, so whatev. He also loves torturing poor Avery (the dog). He'll crawl over to him to pet him (read, grab his fur and pull) or snuggle against him, and Avery will just get up and walk away. I kind of feel sorry for both of them, Ethan just wants to play, and old man Avery just wants to be left alone.

Hmm, what else? He still loves to read, and turn pages for us. Oh, and his eating has gotten better. He feeds himself finger foods a lot, as long as he approves of them, of course. He's still pretty skinny though, and can wear a range of sizes, although most of his tops are 6-9 months and his bottoms are 12 months (the cloth diaper helps them stay up, or else they'd be too big around the waist).

I can't think of much else to say, but I do of course have pictures. He hung in there for these pretty well, until he found the sticker on his shirt and proceeded to eat it. Which reminds me, he now has a total of 6 teeth, one of which has just come in, so I think that made chewing the sticker all the more tempting. Okay, ten month pictures:

Happy baby (because I turned the ceiling fan on)

"Mom, I need that camera for just a sec."

"Huh? You want me to stay still?"

"Hey, this looks interesting.."

"Hey Mommy, look what I found! You know what I think I'll do with it?"

Nom nom nom, good sticker

The sticker was soon removed before the shirt became completely slobber soaked, thus ending the photo shoot. Happy ten months sweet boy!!! Only two more stickers left ::sniff, sniff::, and my baby will be a toddler.