Noah is 10 months old!

Noah is 10 months old today.  He finally made it to his 9 month check up last week and is huge, as expected.  He weighed 23 lbs and 7 oz (he is 75-90 percentile) and his height and head circumference are more in the 50-75 percentile.  Otherwise, everything looked good and healthy and no shots, so it was a pretty uneventful doctor visit.

Noah is a HUGE eater, but is not very big on nursing.  He will only nurse when it is time for him to go down for night or a nap and we are in his dark room.  Otherwise, he just cries and fusses and refuses to nurse.  He will eat almost anything though and is really proficient, especially considering he has only two teeth.  He will grab a hot dog and just eat the whole thing.  He eats pretty much everything - fish, chicken, meat, crackers, pasta, cheese, almost all vegetables and fruit.  He will even get himself food.  When we are harvesting things from the garden, he will pull leaves off the plants and start eating them.  He gets excited whenever we pick strawberries because he loves strawberries.  He also really likes grapes and mangoes.

Noah has been a really crummy sleeper lately.  He still goes to sleep more or less on his own, but he seems to think it is party time at night.  I don't know if it is because he is getting teeth (he seems to be drooling a lot right now which is unusual) or just because he is more on the move, or what, but the second half of the night, it is on and off again on whether he will be asleep at all.  I hope this doesn't last very long.

Noah has finally got really proficient at his army crawl and can get around pretty well.  But he really likes standing and cruising.  He is great at going from cruising or crawling back to sitting.  If you turn around for a second, he usually has lifted himself up and is standing holding on to something.  If you hold his hands (or sometimes one hand), he will walk for you.  I think he will be walking by the time he is 1, but I guess we will see.

Noah really just likes to crawl and explore things.  Especially to find anything little small he can find and put it in his mouth.  He is starting to like cars and balls.  He will push the cars around and is even maybe trying to make car sounds.  He also likes to throw things and push buttons.

Noah can say mom and dad and maybe Andrew and bye and hi.  He will clap hands, play "So big", peek a boo, and can wave goodbye.

We took him to the pool for the first time yesterday - I was worried it would be too cold, but it wasn't too bad and he LOVED it.  He likes to sit on the steps and splash and for him to carry him around and to float on his back.  Good, since we go every day in the summer.