10 Months!

The first thing I noticed in these pictures is how little hair Ashley had and how much hair Isaiah has. He is in need of a haircut, but I'm terrified to take him for fear that he'll get cut because he's so quick! He has not slowed down one bit over the last month. I'm guessing he's not going to be walking any time soon because he is such an efficient crawler, but he has been pulling himself up on everything and walks while we're holding his hands so who knows. We'll find out soon enough. We've gotten good at learning what attracts him over the last month and removing it before he gets to it, so that's helped a little with unwanted accidents. He still gets plenty of them! We also figured out that if we don't draw too much attention to what he's doing he'll get bored and move on to the next thing. He loves to climb the stairs (quickly because he knows we're behind him about to grab him at any moment), then he tries to pull down the gate by shaking it and when we tell him "no" it only fuels his determination and shakes it harder. He already throws himself forward in protest for us not letting him do things and he'll let out a yell to make sure that if you didn't see him throw a fit you heard him! It makes us laugh because it's not a huge fit just a reminder that he's not happy with our discipline. He started saying his first word "uh-oh" a few days ago. He stands up in his crib after his nap, throws the binky on the floor and says "uh-oh" over and over again. Uh-oh is right when he realizes he can't get it from where's he's at. His favorite toys are sister's and we're having trouble sharing in our house right now. For some reason he loves to open and close the oven on Ashley's kitchen and inevitably when she sees brother playing with it, she wants to play with it too. Besides the occasional bickering over toys, though, they do play really well together and Isaiah still gets the biggest smile around her. He's taking a morning and afternoon nap and three 5 oz bottles at daycare or nursing when I'm home with him and then nursing morning and night. I think it's supposed to be less than that, but he's eating a ton of solids and doing well, so for now we've kept it the same. He's signing "more" more frantically now that he knows what comes after it and he started signing "milk". His second bottom tooth came in and I think the top far right is coming in as well. This makes for some very wet shirts by the end of the day! All in all he is such a happy, content little guy. Both kids make our hearts grow with love every day.