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| Merry Christmas from the Phillips! |
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| My little 10 month old. |
We have experienced a lot of changes this month. Jack has definitely moved from a baby to a more vocal, mobile, and expressive BOY! He has always been a grunter but now its on a whole new level. He is into everything. He loves his mom and dad very much. We are moving into a little clingy phase right now that I hope comes and goes very fast! His hair is awesome! He is going to have really thick hair just like his mom and dad. Christopher has been working with Jack on matching pitches...he seems to be doing well with it. We have another musical genius coming down the pike! :) Jack did a wonderful job on the road trip to and from Georgia. He loved visiting with his aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and great-grandparents.
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| First time in the Publix cart...getting food for our road trip to GA! |
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| Georgia, where else do you just gnaw on a piece of corn (thats a toy) |
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| He opened at least one Christmas present every day while visiting Nonna and Papa! |
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| Presents! |
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| The Thanksgiving public service announcement - "Gobble til you wobble" |
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| Great-grandaddy getting on the floor with Jack and the grands! |
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| Jack Loved spending time with his grandparents and great-grandparents in GA |
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| Friends....Jack, Jude, and Josiah! |
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| It gets harder and harder to take pictures with Jack's friends...they are busy, busy. |
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| I thought it would be fun each year for Jack to have his own tree. |
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| Nonna and Papa came to visit Jack and us for the Christmas concerts |
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| Dinner at Saffire in Franklin. |
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| What you do when you are waiting in line to see Santa... |
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| Cheekwood |
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| Jack met Danny Murray who directs the Voices of Lee (the group his dad use to be in) |
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| Loving the ornaments on the tree... |
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| how is it possible we have had him this long? Crazy! |
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| The coolest house decorated for Christmas. |
Quote for the month:
"Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting" -Joyce Meyer
Blog post of the month:
My friend Jessica sent this my way. Its hilarious "A ten month olds letter to Santa"(how appropriate)!!
My friend Jessica sent this my way. Its hilarious "A ten month olds letter to Santa"(how appropriate)!!
Ok so onto the details of #bigboyjack this month!
- Highlight of the month: He is dancing, waving, and clapping hands! Yeah all new and very exciting
- New things: He has started calling me "mum" which is just amazing.
- Moving: His main method of moving is still rolling, however we have moved into quite a bit of army crawling which still isn't real crawling. He does get up on his hands and knees and rock...any day now...he will be full on crawling!
- Sleep: Same for this month 8:30pm-7:00am! 2 naps a day (9-11, 1:30-3:30) and most days he has decided not to to take the catnap.
- Schedule: Same schedule since 6 month old. Going great.
- Clothes: He is in 6-12 months and 12 months. He is wearing a size 3 and some 4 shoes.
- Diapers: Size 3 still. 5-6 a day! Hashtag Pampers for Life!
- Food: Still nursing 5xs a day (7, 11, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30). This has been the hardest thing about this month for sure. He has stressed mama out on this front many times. Which I guess I have heard happens in the 9 to 10 month transition but that doesn't make it easier. He started biting a lot at the beginning of the month and then he would just stop nursing after 3 or 4 minutes which was stressful because he would not latch back on which would then make me have to pump after nursing and it caused a few mama meltdowns. I think we are on the other side of that issue.
The food items he has tried so far are - sweet potatoes, butternut squash, acorn squash, carrots, green beans, green peas, avocados, broccoli, black beans, apples, bananas, prunes, and mama's oatmeal. He is now doing quite a few finger foods too: raisins, cheerios, small veggies cut up, and little baby crackers. - Drink: Still not into sippy cups of water. We use a straw and bird-feed him water. Unbelievable what a parent does to get liquid into this kid
Bad"Not-so-Good" things: I alluded to the biting earlier. Enough said about that. That might be the worst thing in the books . As well, he got shots and the flu vaccine last week and for the 5-7 days after that vaccine/flu shots he threw up almost every day one huge meal. It was bad. REAL bad! Details would be to much for the internet, but know it was awful. We are two days - sans throw-up! So thats good.- Well Visit 9 month stats - 20.7 lbs (50%) and 29 inches long (75%)
