10 months old!

so the little man is now 10 months...

i feel like he's really starting to show his personality. and he's kind of goofy. if all the hand-twirling and tongue-flapping didn't tip us off before :)

he's definitely gaining some independence...when we go out somewhere, he doesn't hesitate to crawl off and explore. he checks in every once in awhile...he'll look for brian or me, or crawl back...but he's been very curious and digs exploring. he's getting louder, too...he's yelling and "blah, blah, blah"-ing a lot...and sometimes kind of grunting for our attention.

i really love how much he likes being around other kids...he gets a big silly grin when they come near him. today, we were hanging out with some friends, and he was lightly tapping one girl's head with a big smile, and then later, he and another girl were banging on a bowl together. (quite the lady-killer...hangin' with two girls in one day ;) )

some other things...
-he's been LOVING blueberries lately
-also into...garbanzo beans, pancakes, still loving bananas & sweet potatos, necatarines, apples, all kinds of grains...rice, barley, oatmeal, amaranth, and we just learned that he's a big fan of spinach
-he's standing a lot now...pulling himself up on everything. and he's a lot less wobbly
-he pants and crawls really fast when he gets excited
-he still loves looking out the window...especially now that he can crawl over to it, and pull himself up to look out (and to poop, we've discovered)
-he claps
-he points! (i think this is the cutest thing ever...especially because he often does the tongue exercise while he points.)
-he imitates sounds..."ffff" "p" (after we say "up"), "ba"
-he does a lot of imitating, in general...clapping, waving, tongue exercises, shaking his head, squeezing his eyes shut
-he loves playing with the springy door stops
-he has his two teeth on the bottom, and three on the top, with the fourth one soooo close to coming out
-apparently, he gets a kick out of getting hit in the face with his ball (it's a soft ball, thank goodness)
-he loves playing peek-a-boo at the coffee table...he pulls himself up to stand, and then squats down, and bounces back up again, over and over...and laughs and laughs!
-he's big into clearing off any flat surface...magazines, mail, phones...whatever's in his way
-he's feeding himself finger foods
-he's not into diaper changes again. and now that he's mobile, it makes for a very interesting diaper change.
-he gets sad when he sees brian or me leave :(
-he still has no hair

here's the ten month pictures...