Yoga baby

If you spend a little time with Caiden you'll see he has an obsession with baby yoga, more specifically downward dog. He gets into this position frequently. Sometimes he crawls around like this. Sometimes he gets thisclose to doing a somersault.

When he is not busy perfecting this pose, he is often hard at work on his basketball skills. His ability to stand is growing by leaps and bounds every day, and this morning at Nana's he was teaching himself to dribble.

Another recent discovery is his own hair. Caiden has been yanking on other people's hair for months now, but he recently found out that he's got his own head full of hair. He pulls at it all of the time, even when he's nursing. The unfortunate side effect of this discovery is the fact he does this while he's eating, too. We used to be able to get by without shampooing his hair every day, but now it's a must. Sticky, gooey hands go straight into the hair. Apparently, banana makes a good hair gel.

We had a good weekend. Aunt Elizabeth babysat on Saturday night so Dan and I could have a night out. And my college friend Jen came over yesterday for a visit. Caiden thought she was swell. He was feeling a little grumpy most of the day, but broke out in giggles for her.

Going for a walk

Here is some footage of Caiden cruising around!

Daddy's boy

Caiden has always been a daddy's boy. This morning, when Caiden pinched his finger in the door, all he wanted was Dad to comfort him. I'm not going to lie, that hurt this mom's feelings a little. I got some good snuggles in later though.

And I get to see this smile when I pick Caiden up at daycare. He was waiting for me by the door yesterday.

Some photos from our lunch visit yesterday

10 months

Caiden is 10 months old!!

Activity: Caiden can walk with assistance, stand for several seconds without support, and climb up a flight of stairs (under CLOSE supervision, he slips easily and sometimes tries to sit back, not realizing it's just air behind him!).He is a super speedy crawler and keeps us on our toes.

He has also been honing his basketball skills!

Personality: The day after a little sleep training exercise 2 weeks ago, Caiden started to display signs of separation anxiety when I dropped him off at daycare. He's been consistent with it ever since. It was SO much easier dropping him off at daycare when he got excited when we walked in the door. But now, he holds on tight, cries when I put him down, tries to climb up my legs... ugh. It's awful. I am crossing my fingers and toes that he gets over this phase soon. At home he is a happy happy boy. He giggles for no reason and is a ton of fun. He definitely has a streak of wild child in him though. There is loud protesting when he doesn't get what he wants! He has been a little grumpy the past few days though, I think there might be another tooth working its way in.

Hanging outside with daycare

Food: we saw lots of improvements with self-feeding this month. In fact, he often doesn't want to be fed by a spoon. He wants to do it himself! His favorites are scrambled eggs, most veggies, fruit and (almond flour) pancakes. He recently discovered how to spit food out, and sometimes he spits food out and then puts it back in his mouth and eats it. Haha, nice!! I think he's just experimenting.

Sleep: Well, it seems that sleep training works on this little man but only for a little while. We will sleep train, then we'll have a week or two of great sleeping, then he starts to creep slowly back into his old ways. I'm now wary of sleep training though, I can't shake the feeling that his newly developed separation anxiety is related. On another note, Caiden has finally organized himself into 2 naps a day, at somewhat predictable times, which makes life much easier!

The toothless wonder

Is toothless no more!! There is finally a little tooth poking through his gums.

Teething didn't seem to affect his appetite yesterday, he was a bottomless pit at dinner!

Bulldozing

Caiden's new obsession is pushing things around. He'll push anything- books, blocks, laundry baskets, toys with wheels, toys without wheels... he doesn't discriminate! He also doesn't stop for road blocks, better watch out or he will try to mow you down!

He also does this while standing, he looks like a little old man using a walker :) I'll get video of that soon. He is getting quite good at walking like that though. Nanna Nan brought over a toy shopping cart this morning, and Caiden has been pushing it all over the play room. He's been known to take the kitchen chairs for a spin around the table too.

We had a very relaxing weekend. Yesterday we had a visit from my friend Sandy, Caiden did some hard core flirting and showing off for her. He crashed big time afterwards though!! Early to bed for the little man. Today it was icky and rainy, and Aunt Elizabeth went with us for another trip to Jam Time. Oh boy, that really is the place to be on rainy days. It was packed!

Weekend recap

We had a great weekend with Grace, Tony, Ian, and Dave Mak. Grace and Tony were doing a triathlon in Lowell on Sunday morning, and since Lowell is not too far from our house they spent Saturday night here and left Ian with us while they went to the race. We had a lot of fun with Ian!

We had eggs for breakfast. After he was done eating, Ian went over to Caiden in the high chair and kept saying "hi, baby!". Very cute.

Then we played inside for a little while. Caiden wanted to do everything Ian was doing.

Ian wanted to hold the baby. I think it lost it's fun when Caiden tried to pull his hair.

When Caiden went down for his morning nap, I took Ian out for a run in the jogging stroller. "Uncle Dan" took a nap with Caiden. When Dan and Caiden woke up, it was race car time. We had watermelon and watched Dan drive the race cars (Ian named them BIG race car, little race car) and fly the helicopter. Caiden watched from the backpack.

Later, Dan and Ian assembled a play house that Nana Nan got for us. Dave Mak arrived during the assembly to help too. When it was set up both boys had fun playing in it.

A fun weekend!!