10 Months

Still cute

Double digits, Wow!

Fine Motor: Every baby has their own growth curves--some speak before others, etc. But Holy cow, Leopleuradon is super good at the small hand motions. He now feeds himself 70% of the time and can handily manage slippery banana chunks, tiny wet kernels of corn, and odd shaped spiruli pasta pieces.

 He can separate lego blocks, and remove a dowel from a tube as well as a wooden egg from a cup. He tries but can't get the blocks together or put the pieces back in to their slots yet. He also gets a kick out of pushing and pulling doors open. Since we live in an old, not-level house, all of the doors hang slightly ajar at the bottom. Leo is impressively good at pulling on the exposed milimeter of door to swing the door out. He also palms things now, which is really cute.

He is often very cat-like in how be plays. He swats at everything, laundry I'm folding, lampshades, toilet paper rolls. Here's a video of the last one. Yep, I know. So stinkin' cute!

Gross Motor: Dinobaby crawls like an ace. However, he also crawls super weirdly. He keeps both feet off of the floor somehow and shakes his booty as he books it across the room. He also creeps/cruises along the sofa, along the wall, from the top of the side-table to a set of drawers. Pretty awesome. He stands for almost 30 seconds unsupported but only when he's distracted. He immediately squats when he realizes he's not holding on to anything. He's also learning how to fall, and is more or less successful.

Standing still at the playground has never been more fascinating 

Language: Leo can sign "more" and "all done" but not consistently. He talks to himself now (cute) and sings (super cute). Albeit, "singing" is probably just really high pitched cooing but whatever.  He also makes happy growls in the morning when we've put him bed with us after he wakes up trying to get us to open our eyes and play with him. Here's Leo talking to himself as he plays with an empty salt shaker.

Oh, I forgot to mention--there are FOUR TEETH coming in on top, so yeah, he's super drool-y. 

Food: Man, the kid really likes food. And he eats almost everything now. Oh, right, and he can drink from his own glass now! However, that also means you have to change his shirt when he's done, so I usually help him still.  So yeah, video #3--Dinobaby drinking all on his own

Size: Just in case y'all are curious he's 58% in height and 74% in weight. He wears 12 month clothes.

Although I wrote many of the posts I said I would last month, I didn't get to all of them. So I shall refrain from promises of posts this time around.

And, I'm sorry this is a little past due, but hey there was the last Wheel of Time book to read. ;)