Malachi: 10 months

This little dude is becoming so active and it's so fun to see his personality coming out. 

He loves to snuggle and be close, but he will also be content playing by himself. 

One of his favorite games is handing something back and forth. 

He loves for me to sing to him and he knows all the actions to pat-a-cake. 

 He loves to dance by moving his body back and forth, shaking his head vigorously or spinning in circles while sitting on his bottom.

He is able to crawl, pull himself up to a standing position and cruise along furniture. 

He can independently go up and down stairs. He has only taken a tumble a couple of times.

Malachi is eating solid foods and some soft finger foods. He a really good eater. He has just recently started to prefer some foods over others. He will even spit food out if he doesn't want it.

He is babbling quite a bit. He can even say dada, though he doesn't know the meaning. 

He has eczema and we are usually able to keep under control. He's had a couple bad flare-ups, but nothing that's lasted too long. 

He has his two bottom teeth and had a hard time cutting them.

He likes to cuddle/roll around on soft things such as pillows, blankets or piles of clothes.

He makes car noises when he's zooming cars around.

He loves to wrestle with Adrian and Levi. If there is any rough play going on he wants to be right in the middle. Up until it gets a little too rough and he gets hurt.

He sleeps about 10.5 hours each night. If he wakes up at all during the night he immediately stands up and cries until I come in and put his binky in and lay him down. 

He is so curious and is into all the drawers and cupboards. 

He reaches for things he wants. 

He loves to play with cars and balls. 

A week ago he got his finger shut in a door. He had to get 5 stitches because the tip was halfway severed off. The top of the bone was also chipped off so he's been on antibiotics for 10 days. I was almost in tears because I felt so bad for him. There is nothing worse then seeing your kids in pain and suffering. It was cut from behind the nail bed and was hard to stitch so there is going to be nasty scar.  He's been a trooper and has continued on as normal.

At 10 months:

Weight 20.5 lbs

Height 28.5 inches