Ten Months Old

Holden turned ten months old on December 24th. The biggest change we've seend is that he is "talking" more. He says "Mom-mom-mom" or "Mah-mah" if he wants to be picked up, wants more food or if he wants me to come back in the room. He also answers the phone (or any other ringing sound like the microwave timer) with an "Ahhhh". He calls Houston "Uhhh" when he sees him outside in the yard, it is so cute. He says "uh-oh" minus the "oh" after he drops food over his high chair tray or drops a toy. It used to just be the one syllable "uh" but in the last couple of days he's added the second syllable, so now it's "uh-uh". As you can probably tell, it's a lot of the same sound used in different contexts. He has six teeth and one corner of another that has broken through. I can see one other that will be here any day now. He's standing on his own (without holding onto anything) every once and a while - his longest has been about 3 or 4 seconds. He's also starting to take some independent steps. He prefers to walk rather than crawl most places now, so he'll try to stretch between furniture edges to make it from place to place. More and more, he's letting go of the furniture and taking one or two steps. The most I've seen at a time is two, but they told me he took three consective steps at school last week. The pyrogenic granuloma (the red mole) next to his left eye fell off one night and has not returned; we've kept the appointment with the pediatric dermatologist just in case though. Other than that, his hair has gotten longer - it's almost time for his first haircut. This picture was taken on the 22nd when we stopped by to see Grandmother. She has had the lighted Santa and Rudoplph since Trey was young.