My sweet Will. There will be so many things that I have forgotten in the past 10 months. I wish I had thought to log on here and type! It's August and summer is almost over. We went to a Tides game this week - your first! - and let you try some ice cream. You loved it! It had us thinking to your very quickly upcoming first birthday. I bet you are going to destroy some cake! :)
Here are some firsts that I can remember:
First tooth - 8.5 months. Your second one came a week later!
Crawling - 9 months. You did start with an army crawl, but it didn't last long. Month 8 was a big one for you, as you seemed to really master sitting, started inching forward, then crawling, then pulling up. Now you are a machine and go wherever you want, SO FAST!
Words - we think you have said mama and dada to us, but we aren't sure yet. those are your favorite sounds to make, so you make them an awful lot.
We started you on solid foods at 6 months. You have NOT looked back. Everything we have given you, you have loved! So much so that you're weening yourself off of a bottle. You are down to 2 bottles a day, and I think you could do one.
You are now a great sleeper! It took until almost 6 months, but now you sleep for 2 hours in both the morning and afternoon, then from 7-6:30 at night!
We have taken you in the car to both Florida and Maine, and you are as great of a traveller as your sisters! You like someone sitting next to you, but that's about all you need to be happy in the car, even for long stretches.
You LOVE the water. When you were just a few months old, you would sit in your baby bathtub and move your hands. It was never very coordinated or strong, but you would do it. Then, as the months went by, your hands never stopped. They just got better at what they were doing! You cannot take a bath without getting soaking wet (even in an inch of water!) and also getting whoever else is in the bathroom with you soaking wet! In the pool at Mimac and Beeps' house you get very frustrated. We are never busy enough for you! If you are being held, we have to be constatly moving around, otherwise you try and get out of our grasp! If we put you in the float you are happy for a minute or two, but then you try and climb out! But when we put you out of the pool, you turn around and start crawling towards the water again! The ocean is the only place you are chill by or in the water. I think because of the waves, you are mesmerized by the moving water.
You also love being pushed around in the (pink) car. When Kate and Summer are playing out front, we can put you in the pink car. We can push you around, or you can just sit there and you are content for a while! I think you really enjoy watching your older sisters, and Jay & Madeline play.
