10 Months

 Levi Daniel is 10 Months Old!

25 lbs

30 inches

He is off and walking so we've purchased some good walking shoes from Stride Rite and he's loving them. (He's already figured out how to undo the velcro and take them off in the car-- so helpful!) He is loving his new found freedom but he overestimates his abilities a little so we're taking more spills and tumbles these days. All in the name of freedom! He's still a good eater. He's sleeping through the night and taking pretty regular naps.... no complaints from his Mommy there! He's wearing mostly 18 month clothes with the occasional 24 month shirt. He's using Mama and Dada and lots of other consonant/vowel combinations but those are the only two that he seems to be using on purpose. He's beginning to use the sign language signals for "All done" and "more" so I'm going to start introducing a few more. He's waving and clapping and we're working on throwing a ball. For the longest time he favored his left hand (I know it's way too early to know that information, but lots of people commented on his hand dominance) but when picking up a ball he seems to prefer his right hand. I suppose we'll just have to wait and see... 

Levi LOVES people! The other night we were at a restaurant and there were two women sitting over his shoulder laughing loudly. He turns around and waves at them as if saying, "Yes, yes, I know, I'm cute." The two women jumped up and had to come and talk to him immediately and just fawned all over him. He eats that attention up! When we were picking out new shoes, the sales person underestimated Levi's walking skills (or thought I was exaggerating) so I pulled him out of the stroller and he took off for the front door and made friends with a couple of ladies walking through the mall. The ladies loved him and the sales person was mighty impressed and showed us the rack of big boy shoes. He's a pretty easy going little guy and he loves attention from anyone willing to offer it. 

It was harder to get pictures of him for his 10 month post. I pleaded, I joked, I tickled, I bribed but I mostly got pictures of him crawling over the chair, trying to touch the light behind him, and then ultimately just leaving the room all together. Here are my attempts to show you my huge 10 month old!

About to show off his waving skills.

I got a little too close so he took the glasses right off my face!

Trying to distract him with a book. It sort of worked.

 He climbed off the chair and walked out the door. I guess  he was all done!