(Check back in the next few days to see 10 mos pictures - you'll be able to click the title of the post to get to the KodakGallery album)
These days, Zach:
- crawls WAY too fast.
- has learned to pull himself up to a standing position AND "cruise" along furniture and walls, etc.
- zips into the bathroom at every opportunity, and is thrilled to dip his fingers into the toilet bowl water...ERG! (we need to get faster, obviously).
- enjoys opening the cupboards to the entertainment center and pulling out all the CDs and DVDs.
- LOVES Sumo! He chases him around the house, crawls under the end table and up to the chairs to get at the kitty.
- goes for walks on the sidewalk and inside, round and round the living area, using his push-car (or an empty diaper box).
- eats all the jarred baby foods (without preservatives) as well as cut up ham, turkey, fruit rolls, apples, and whatever he can pick up off the floor.
- is working on getting is 2nd tooth! (The first came in on Sunday, the 29th of January; see future post.) Poor guy is drooling up a storm, and the moisture on his chin and under his pacifier has caused little patches of dry, red skin. :(
- LOVES bathtime! He stands up in the tub, walks around the sides, and has fun pulling toys out of the water, hanging them over the edge of the tub to watch the water drip to the floor. He even tolerates Dad's dunking and squirting water in his face!
- romps on our bed after baths. He does little baby gymnasticalisthenics or something, rolling onto his head and flopping around, etc.
- wears #3 diapers, though we've had a few "incidents," so maybe it's time to move to #4s.
- drinks apple/carrot (yum?) juice like a fiend.
- wakes in the morning at about 7:00 takes a good 1.5 hour nap in the morning, and another 1.5 to 2 hour nap in the afternoon, eats dinner, has a bedtime bottle in time to drift off to sleep at about 8pm. Can you hear his parents' more fitfull ZZZs these days?
- plays with all his noise-making toys. He especially loves his piano/tambourine/drum/horn, his giant block organizer cube, and his bedtime elephant, "I am your elephant, flopping my ears..."
- sneaks in some TV watching - he especially likes the [Honk] You can store all this at public storage for just one dollar.... commercial.
- spends time oogling all the other cute girls (and boys, and moms and dads, and grandparents, and balloons) at the grocery store, "eeeh-ing" if they don't notice him.
- goes to lunch with Mom and her friends, although the experience isn't quite as quiet as it used to be.
- is a rocket climbing up the stairs. (Gate is in place now)
- likes to be tickled (and giggle) on his ribs, thighs and under his chin.
- can grab things off the kitchen table!
- has learned to stand, unassisted, for a few seconds at a time.
- may know "Dada" but is nowhere near knowing "Mama."
- rides in his (still rear-facing) new carseat.
- is entertained by the doorstops and air intake grids on the walls.
- can hang onto a big, heavy Calphalon pan while Mommy relocates him away from the pan cupboard...
- is like the cat, and motors his way over to the fridge when the door opens. There are so many colorful containers in there!
- has pulled the garbage out of the can, dumped a carton of barley on the floor, and of course pulled cookie sheets, tupperware, bowls, the rice cooker, and the sifter (it DOES make a lovely echoing sound when you gahhhhh into it) out of cupboards...oh little boys!
- somehow remains darn cute, in the eyes of his parents.
