This is from Easter - we visited Tim's family in Delano
The four new cousins: DJ-2mths, Colten-9mths, Isa-11mths, and Roman-4mths.
With the Grandmas (all sisters).
The boys share a great grandmother (we couldn't get her to take a photo).
When Colten was first born, every hour was so momentous that we counted his age in days and weeks. Now he'll be ten months old tomorrow, and I seriously can't figure out where the last eight weeks went. In just two months, we'll be celebrating his first birthday! Crazy. In fact, Colten will actually be attending his first baby birthday party this Sunday at the zoo. I'm not able to go, but Tim's really excited (he loves the zoo). Most of the babies in our Mamatoto group are right around Colten's age, so we're coming up on party season here...Colten is going to have quite a full schedule this summer.
The three questions that I get the most these days are: Is he walking yet? What's he eating? And is he sleeping through the night? So let me tell you. No, Colten's not walking; not even a little bit. He's really not even crawling, if you want to get technical about it. I think he has the ability, just not the drive. I will say, though, that he's doing some other pretty spectacular stuff, like clapping, waving goodbye, mimicing our facial expressions, and beginning to say words like "mama" and "bird." One developmental thing at a time, please.
Now on to the eating. This kid eats like nothing I've ever seen before. He'll eat anything. Today he ate oatmeal with cinnamon and yogurt, a strawberry, some rice cereal and a few Cheerios, part of a croissant I was eating, some chicken out of my sandwich, at least an entire avocado, part of a banana, some watermelon, and a few forkfulls of rice and beans from my Mexican dinner. He's also still nursing two to three times a day and at night. He must be headed for a growth spurt or something.
Sleeping through the night? I don't know - do you sleep through the night? For some reason this is such a difficult question to answer. He usually falls asleep around 9pm and wakes up in the morning at 7:30am. He stirs and nurses throughout the night, but nothing that actually gets Tim or I out of bed. So, sure, he sleeps through the night. We're pretty stoked on the whole situation.
So, in general, things are good. Tim and I just freakin' adore this little guy. It's the best!
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