10 Months

We sure love our sweet little Emmett dude!  This past month has been pretty eventful!

• Emmett fed himself cereal for the first time...it was a huge mess, but he did get a little in his mouth.  However, we're going to wait a while before we let him try again.
• He mastered the art of crawling within about 3 days.  He now is ALL OVER the place and gets into everything!
• He loves to chase the dog.  It's really funny when he crawls toward her, gets close, and then she runs the other direction.  Then Emmett has to change directions and start the process over.
• Emmett LOVES to walk along things.  Quite often he'll crawl to something just so he can pull himself up and walk along it.
• One day while he was crawling around, Emmett found one of the dog's teeth-cleaning treats.  He, of course, promptly put it in his mouth and started gnawing on it!  It was so gross!
• Emmett fell down the stair from the kitchen to the laundry room.  He tried to crawl down it headfirst.  Since that first time, he has figured out that if he goes down slowly enough, he won't bonk his face on the hard tile floor.
• Emmett can pull himself to standing when he's in his crib waiting for us to come get him.  (Or when he's fighting taking a nap)
• He has figured out a system to get back down to the floor once he's pulled himself up to standing; he leans over and touches the floor with one hand while still holding on to whatever he was standing against with the other hand.
• Lots of times when he's sitting down, he'll cross his ankles.  It's really cute since his thighs are so chubby; his knees are bent and quite far apart, but his feet are interlocked around one another.
• He has started eating Cheerios by the handful instead of one at a time.  It's quite funny to see him try and cram an entire handful in his mouth.
• If he's crawling around and you put some food on your hand and hold it out to him, he'll come up and eat off your hand like a dog instead of grabbing the food with his hand.

Now, for everyone's favorite part of the post: pictures!

 One morning I went in to check on Emmett and found him asleep like this: he was laying on top of his arms.  I'm not sure if his arms were a little cold so he was trying to keep them warm, or whether he just felt comfortable like that.

 Emmett's cute little squinty smile

 When he tried to feed himself cereal; if you look closely, you can see globs of it all over him and the highchair.

 Emmett tried spaghetti for the first time; as you can see, he loved it!

And, as an extra, here's a cute video of him.  He's been really funny when eating his lunch lately, so I decided to pull out my phone and take a video of him.  Excuse the camera work at the beginning; it's hard to keep the camera trained on him while focusing on feeding him ;)  And yes, I do realize I sound like a crazy person.  Sorry 'bout that.