Benton Update: 10 Months

Sweet boy! You are growing so fast and we are so proud of you! We are glad that we only have a couple more months of your monkey pictures, as you are becoming VERY HARD to photograph...all you want to do is eat the paper. :) We love you!!!

Some facts from Benton's tenth month of life:

-Wearing 12 month and 12-18 month clothes.

-Mainly wearing cloth diapers with no snaps. In disposables, he is wearing a size 4 diaper.

-Eating 3 meals and 1 snack per day. He has a 5 ounce bottle of formula with his breakfast and lunch, and he has a 5 ounce sippy cup with whole milk in the evenings. His meals are primarily table food and an occasional pureed fruit or veggie. His snacks are usually cheerios and a fruit.

-Still sleeping great! He was unfazed by daylight savings time...thank goodness! He is sleeping from 7-7:15pm to 7:00am. He is taking 2 naps per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon (about 2 hours each).

-Eat/play/sleep. :)

Random things we don't want to forget:

-We went to the zoo and he loved it! His favorite things were people watching and calling all animals with four legs "dog." Ha!

-Ben know officially has 3 teeth completely through his gums (2 on the bottom and 1 on the top right). He has 3 more out of the gums, but not completely visible yet (all 3 on top, 1 on the top left and the lateral incisor on each side).

-He has become quite the talker! Many people comment on how verbal he has become. He usually says a whole bunch of nothing, but he does say "dada," "mama," "dog," and a version of "bubbles" now. Of course, he only says these things when he wants and it's not exactly clear.

-He has an obsession with mandarin oranges. Seriously, he loves them!

-Although he is not crawling yet, he is getting up on all fours and rocking. He is pretty much able to get anything he wants by rolling and scooting. He is also showing a lot of interest in standing, so it will be interesting to see if he actually crawls very much.

-We have been working on sign language for months now (all done, please, and more), and he finally did his own version of all done a few days ago. It was so cute!!!

-He found out that he is going to be a big brother to two little sisters! While he is very sweet, we can already see a silly side of him. We imagine he will lovingly torture his little sisters. :)

-His favorite time of day is bathtime. He loves everything about it...the water coming out of the faucet, his toys, splashing, the soap bubbles, and even drying off. He is all smiles the whole time!

We can't believe how fast you have grown, and we love you so much!!!!