Thursday, May 24, 2012

10 Months Old!!

I can't believe in just 2 short months our sweet, little dude is going to be ONE! 

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10 months
The only way I could get him to sit even remotely still was to give him my phone. 

Harrison wanted NOTHING to do with sitting next to his elephant, smiling, and taking pics this afternoon.  He is on-the-go ALL the time!  He wanted to stand in the crib and peek over the rail, he wanted to throw his elephant out of the crib, and he wanted to crawl all over the crib.  Crazy guy!  (Picture outtakes at the end of the post.)

I predicted he would be walking by 10 months, but he's not... yet.  He is a very speedy crawler though!  Especially if he is going for something he shouldn't be- Dusty's food or our wine rack.  We've been working on standing alone and walking, but I don't think he is quite ready.  He will stand on his own for a few seconds, but it has to be his idea.  Stubborn, little thing!  Sometimes he will try to take a step, but he ends up just lunging forward.  He is getting better about holding our hands and walking around.  Occassionaly, I can even get him to hold just one of my hands and walk a little way.  He loves walking with his walking toys, pushing chairs, and rolling his highchair through the kitchen.  He just doesn't quite have the balance to let go and do it on his own yet. 

Harrison is learning new ways to play with his toys.  He puts smaller toys in buckets and cups and shakes them.  He has a couple Easter eggs in his toy box, and he knows how to pull them apart.  He pushes his cars and trucks around.  He tries to stack toys, but doesn't quite have the hang of it.  He takes books off his shelf and brings them to us to read.  (I'm so glad he loves books and reading.) 

We are slowly introducing more and more table foods.  Baby food is just not a favorite right now.  He still eats it, but some days it takes a lot of coaxing.  I'm still waiting on a few more teeth to come in before I fully switch to table food. 

He's understanding more and more of what we say.  When we tell him to get his cup/milk, he gets it.  If we tell him to throw the ball, he will.  He understands, "give kisses" and "come here."  He knows what "no" means, but doesn't always listen :-)  Every afternoon when I hear the garage open, I tell him, "Daddy's home!"  He crawls as fast as he can over to the baby gate and waits for Tim to come in.  He still hasn't said any real words, but he babbles and makes noises constantly! 

10 month stats
20-22lbs
29-30in
2 bottom teeth all the way through
2 top teeth poking through








Sunday, May 20, 2012

Zoo Trip!

Yesterday MeMaw and PePaw (Glenda and Dennis) and Tim, Harrison, and I loaded up and headed to the Ft. Worth Zoo for the day.  He did a great job!  He was perfectly content hanging out in his stroller most of the time.  There weren't many animals he could really focus in on because they were asleep or up too high, but he did enjoy watching the monkeys play, a bear walk around, the penguins, and some fish and turtles swimming.  He also got to touch a snail in the "touch tank!"  He didn't want to slow down for a nap at all.  There was just too much going on!  He wasn't fussy, so we just figured he would eventually crash.  Sure enough as we were finishing up the last part of the zoo, he crashed on Tim's shoulder.  He slept for about 30 minutes, and woke up ready to go again.  We wrapped up the day with a delicious dinner at Pappadeaux and then came back home. 


"I'm ready!"

"We're going to do what?"

"Ok, I'll give it a shot!"


"Hey!  Check this guy out!" 

"I'll show you my teeth too, Mr Crocodile!"



Eating some lunch.

Watching the hippos.






Watching the penguins.
Quick, on-the-go diaper change.







My favorite pic of the day :-)

He finally crashed.

Tired baby.
Checking out his snake on the way to dinner.

Dinner and coloring at Pappadeaux.

 Thanks MeMaw and PePaw for taking us to the zoo!  We had a blast!


Tunnels and Boxes

I have been wanting to get Harrison a tunnel for a while now.  A couple weeks ago, I was doing a survey on one of the survey sites I go to, and I discovered I had a bunch of points.  I decided to browse through the kid toys to see how I could redeem my points and found this awesome "Melissa and Doug" tunnel.  It took Harrison a little while to decide he wanted to crawl through it, but now he LOVES it!  He and Dusty chase eachother around and through it!  








Fast forward to a couple days ago at Mama C's house.  Harrison and Hank had a BLAST playing in this box!  Well, Harrison did.  I'm not so sure Hank was very happy with Harrison when he blocked him in there!