10 months

10 months...that means only 2 more months until Cooper is 1!  I'm so not ready.

At 10 months old Cooper is into everything.  He crawls at 90 mph and is never still.  He can walk behind his John Deere tractor and can stand alone for a few seconds at a time.  Not walking yet, but I know it won't be much longer.

Cooper is wearing 9 month and 12 month clothes and size 3 diapers, and he weighs close to 20 lbs.  We have started giving a lot more table food, and he does great with it.  He loves to feed himself!  So far blueberries are his favorite food, but he also really likes meat, cheese, and ritz crackers.  He takes a good morning nap and afternoon nap.  I think he is slowly starting to drop the morning nap - it keeps getting shorter and shorter.

He babbles all the time and I think I've heard a "mama" in there a few times!  We've also started introducing a little sign language...more, please, all done, thank you...etc.  He loves to watch my hands when I'm signing and will wave his hands around.  I like to think he is trying to sign too ;)

His favorite toys are magazines and junk mail.  Not sure why I buy toys for this kid!  He does love to chase balls around the house and ride on his tractor!

Does it get any sweeter than this?

Nursing...

I nursed Cooper for the last time 2 weeks ago.  It was bittersweet, and now (and I never thought I would say this) I kind of miss it!  Baby boy doesn't seem to miss it at all though!  He never skipped a beat, with the exception of not always wanting to take a bottle (thankfully the sippy cup is still working well).  Getting him to nurse was becoming quite the challenge.  He would wiggle around and want to do anything but nurse.  So I decided it was time to wean.

At first I HATED nursing and told myself that I was quitting at 3 months.  3 months rolled around and I wasn't ready to quit so I told myself we would keep it up until 6 months....Here we are at almost 10 months and I have completely weaned.

By approximately the 6th week of nursing, both he and I finally got the hang of it.  I'm so glad that I didn't throw in the towel before now.  I have loved the special bonding time nursing creates between a mother and child - it's so sweet!  It wasn't so sweet through mastitis and engorgement though!  Plus, nursing is 100x easier than messing with bottles and formula.  Not to mention how outrageous the cost of formula is.  I never had to worry with packing bottles (or washing them) or making late night formula runs to Walmart.  I used to think it would be so hard to nurse while traveling or anytime when I'm not at home, and for the first six weeks I was only comfortable nursing in the privacy of my own home.  I've come a long way!  I've nursed everywhere to sitting in my car in a mall parking lot to a park bench at the New Orleans Zoo.  Thank goodness for the hooter hider!  I used to gasp at the very idea of nursing in public and would swear that I would never do that, ha!  Never say never...

So another chapter of my sweet boy's life is over and he is growing up too fast.  I can't believe he is about to be one in a few short months.  I'm not ready for my baby to not be a baby.