Ten months old!

Gabriel is now ten months old!  He is growing up fast and learning new things every week.

 

He is VERY mobile now.  He's mastered his crawling skills and probably crawls better than either of our girls ever did, despite his humongous size (27 pounds).  He loves standing up and can pull himself up onto the coffee table and every other thing he finds.

This also means that he can reach more things than ever before and loves getting into everything.

Because he is crawling so well, he also has taken an interest in the stairs.  He can climb up the steps now, so...

Up went the baby gates!  So that the girls can make it over the gates, we set up a chair on one side and a step stool on the other.  Karina needed help at first, but got the hang of it really quickly.

Other things that Gabriel enjoys doing is opening cupboards and drawers.  Some of the cupboards have baby-proof latches, so they only open about 1 inch.  Gabriel finds this really annoying and screams in frustration when they don't open all the way.

Gabriel likes playing the piano.  This is because he really likes to make NOISE.  Whether it's banging on the piano, banging two plastic cups together or hitting the ground with a metal spoon, he likes making his version of music.

And speaking of making noise, one of Gabriel's quirks is his obsession with door stops--the springy type that make a loud "twaaaang" when you bend it and let go. Like a heat seeking missile, he will seek out the door stop whenever he can and start to twang away.  Eventually though, he always works it loose and then will put the whole thing in his mouth and start sucking on it.  Needless to say, we have put taken out and put away all the doors stops in the house for now.

Another favorite pasttime is pulling books off the shelf.  Apparently it's really fun to pull a book out, see if he can tear it apart, and when finding out that he can't, moving on to the next one.

He does like being read to as well.  He will sit still as long as the book is short and sweet.  =)

So that's what's going on with our fat little baby.  Hope you are doing well.