10 months old!

Andy celebrated 10 months of life on May 22nd. Here he is with Daddy.




Since it was a beautiful day we went for a walk. Andy is too hip for the crowd in his baby sunglasses and hat!!

Happy Birthday Chris

Today was Chris's birthday. To celebrate, he, Andy, Doug, Jim and I went to Chinatown for dim sum. Andy was fantastic - sat in a high chair at the table just like a big boy. He even tried a dumpling!

Afterwards, we went to Doug and Jim's for cake and presents. Chris got a new large coffee pot! Here are a few photos of the birthday boy. The top one is Chris opening a card from Andy.

He's sleeping and eating and crawling!!

So many changes around his 9-month birthday!!

I realize the danger in announcing this, but we're just so excited that I have to share: Andy has slept through the night for the past week! He goes to bed about 8pm and wakes up around 6:30am. After all the problems we've had with sleep, it's nice to finally see some advancements. There still is plenty of room for improvement: we currently rock/cuddle him to sleep (we'd like him to learn to fall asleep on his own) plus naps are still difficult, but we just are so pleased to finally see some light at the end of the sleep-deprived tunnel!

Plus, Andy now is a champion eater. It took almost over 4 months of daily trying, but he now has taken to solid foods. He does great at every meal. His favorites are actual bananas, carrots, and peaches plus baby food applesauce, sweet potatoes and yogurt. He loves Cheerios, rice cakes, and surprisingly enough, chick peas and black olives. His only real dislike is green beans (can't say I blame him!).

Andy now crawls quite well. He started by doing an army-style crawl, but now is up on all fours and traveling with lightning speed. That means I spend a lot of time chasing him! We installed our baby gates, electrical covers, cord covers, etc. this past weekend. We still need to close off a few drawers in the kitchen. Andy wants to explore it all!

I'm attaching some recent photos. I love the one of him seriously "studying" the LeapPad! The other one is at a nearby park on Mother's Day. Many thanks to Uncle Jim for taking and sharing some of these!