Kyler is 10 months old today!! It's hard to believe that in just two quick months he will be one year old! We have had a pretty good month here at the Blanchard's. One of Kyler's firsts for the month was his first night away from mom and dad. Erik and I went to Minneapolis at the end of January to a Song of Solomon conference that Mark Driscoll put on. It was a great weekend and if you are ever looking for someone to listen to I highly recommend Mark Driscoll, he is the lead pastor of Mars Hill Church out in Seattle, WA. Kyler spent the night at my (Ashley's) parents house. I think it went pretty well (from what they said) but I'm not sure how much sleep he got...he was a pretty tired little boy on Sunday. :) Since we had to be gone, Kyler had to learn how to take a bottle. I was a little nervous about this because he had NEVER had one, and I had heard that some babies refuse to take one, but Kyler did great! Erik gave him one on Thursday night and he took it like a champ. It had breast milk of course, but I was very glad it went so well.
I wouldn't say that Kyler is exactly crawling yet, but he is definitely moving forward and can get where he wants to go. He does this by getting up on all fours and then sort of diving forward and then repeating this process-which he has gotten quite good at. He is SO CLOSE to crawling, he will get up on all fours and rock back and fourth like he's ready to take off, but then just lays back down on his belly. Kyler has also figured out how to go from sitting on the floor to down on his belly so he can get where he wants to.
He continues to do very well eating. He definitely has his favorite foods (yogurt and pears) but we are going to work on expanding his horizons. :) He has started to take less of an interest in nursing after he eats "real" food, so I'm hoping that this is an indication that weaning will go pretty well.
I think that's all for now...enjoy the pictures of our little guy, I think he's starting to look more and more like a little boy and not so much a baby any more!!
I'm 10 months old today!!
I LOVE yogurt!
Celebrating Mommy's birthday!
Heading to the bath tub!
Big boy!
Working on crawling... his own style :)
This is a little better... :)
If you look close you can see his two pearly whites!
I'm going to get you! (Doesn't everyone take a bat with them to dinner?)
Ahhhhhhhh!
