Monday, December 03, 2012

10 Months

I know I say this every time, but I cannot believe how quickly time passes and how BIG Judah is!
He sure is becoming a lot of fun though!

Judah's milestones/activities at 10 Months:
-working on his balance, by letting go while standing
-learning to go back down stairs (can go down a few)
-walking around while holding hands
-playing with balls
-perfecting his pincer grasp and become very good at feeding himself
-is eating mostly all table foods, favorite foods include cheese, zucchini, and pasta with tomato sauce
-jabbering a lot
-giving kisses
-starting to say a few recognizable words and mimicking sounds in addition to "Up" and "Hi": "Achoo," "All done," "Night Night"
-continues to love books and likes his large flashcards with animals on them
-started to stand up independently, without using any support

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving!

 Judah's 1st Thanksgiving Meal, which apparently consisted primarily of rolls...
as I wasn't there to feed him :( 
He is his father's son!



Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Monday, November 19, 2012

Family Pictures

Since we don't often get pictures of all three of us together, we had my mom take some pictures of us recently while she was in town.  Here are a few of our favorites

Thanks Mom!

Sunday, November 11, 2012

9 Months

Behind on blogging again...
Judah is mobile, mobile, mobile...so needless to say, holding still and humoring mommy to take the monthly picture has become a bit of a challenge.  After two attempts and numerous pictures, these are the best we have :)
 

Take 2:

At 9 Months Judah has learned to and/or enjoys:
-Always having an object in each hand
-Standing and cruising
-Going from standing to squatting, over and over again
-Working on his balance by reaching for things on the ground from standing
-Moving to music
-Playing with the dogs toys
-Playing in the drawer of his dishes, taking them all out, banging them together
-Pulling all his books off the shelf (and he continues to LOVE reading them)
-Starting to walk while holding a big person's hands
-Climbed into the bathtub (thankfully it was void of water)
-Climbs a full flight of 15 stairs!
-Experimenting with table foods
-Mimicking laughter

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Thursday, October 25, 2012

8 Months

The Boards are finally behind us, hopefully for a long time, so now to post some 8 month pictures...
The months continue to fly by, even Judah cannot believe its been 8 Months :)
He sure is a fun and handsome little guy though.





Judah is learning new things at a rapid pace.  And his Pedi mommy, who was re-memorizing lists and lists of developmental milestones, has been watching him like a hawk!

In terms of gross motor milestones. this month he learned to pull to stand!  And once you can stand, what fun is it really to sit anymore? He really enjoys standing up and playing at his little learning/musical table toy.  Judah also learned to climb the 2 steps between the kitchen and the living room; no instruction required, one day he just headed for the steps and figured it out himself!  I realize I am biased, but it was quite impressive.  And finally after almost 2 months of scooting/army crawling, Judah finally started actually crawling.  Oh and how can I forget the gross motor milestone of learning to sit-up from lying down and the wonderful joy it has created in keeping us all from sleeping!

In terms of fine motor skills, Judah has learned to clap and is working on waving "Hi," but really isn't interested in waving "Bye" at all.  We are also starting to work on a pincer grasp.

Judah continues to advance his babbling, adding "dadadada" to the repertoire this month.  Still no "mamama" sounds though :(

In other exciting news, this month Judah went from 2 teeth to 6, adding 4 teeth across the top from left to right, one right after the other, with a new tooth breaking through every 3-8 days!  Needless to say, it has made life a little crazy at times. 

Saturday, October 06, 2012

Judah Through the Months

I've been meaning to do an 8 mo blog...but just haven't had time to load the pictures, as I have been trying to furiously study for the boards...but as a short distraction, with pictures previously loaded...
 
 





 
 
Jake and I were looking back through Judah pictures and marveling at the changes.
Babies grow up too fast!

Monday, September 24, 2012

Judah Videos

Just for fun...a couple videos of Judah, both from my phone, so not the best quality
Scooting
this was from his early days of scooting, while not really interested in crawling, because he is so fast and proficient at this, he has now in the past few days started to coordinate arm and leg movements simulating crawling
 
Swinging at Grandma's House

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

More Utah

We were fortunate to be able to take another trip to Utah this year...this time in honor of Ayden's 1st Birthday! As a bonus it is during the Fall, my very favorite time of year...in a place where there actually is a Fall.
Ayden getting ready to dig into his cake
 
In addition we were able to see lots of family...
Celebrating Ayden with Grandpa

Mommy's Grandma and many of her grandkids at the party
playing with a cup and straw with Aunt Melanie
playing with Nana, Grandpa came too
with cousin Dawnie and her baby Annaleigh
 
And of course we spent more time on the boat, this time at one of the lakes Mommy grew up on, Starvation Reservoir

exploring the water and mud with his cousins, which he found very interesting