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It's been awhile...a little over 4 months. Which means I have yet to blog about all of the milestones Kyler has hit lately and all the events that have happened this summer. (Can you believe it is almost over?!)

In other words...this is going to be a LOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG blog! I'll try to break it up a little so as to not overwhelm anyone.

Kyler

Kyler is now 10 months old!! And this last month he has learned so much! I felt like he wasn't progressing fast enough around 6 and 7 months but from 8 months on he has just been go, go, go! I almost can't keep up!

Looks:

He now has lot's of think, blond hair. It is starting to look a little more strawberry blond, which I am a fond of. And he is just about ready for a hair cut. We gave him a trim a few months ago but now it is almost in his eyes and pretty long in the back. If you're wondering where the blond hair comes from it is Jake. Jake was a blond baby and his hair didn't get dark until he was a teenager and then didn't get curly until he was in high school. I also have some blond family members on my mom's side of the family so it could be from me too.

He now has 2 bottom teeth. They both came in within a couple weeks of each other and he hasn't got anymore since. I keep thinking he is getting a top one in every time he gets cranky but nothing yet!

As far as how big he is he has gotten bigger but actually didn't grow a lot from his 6 month appt to his 9 month.

What he has learned:

He talks a lot! Ok, maybe not real words, it's just jibber jabber but holy cow is this kid loud! Some things are starting to make sense like "mama" and "dada" but that's about it for now. He will have a conversation with you, you just can't understand what he is saying.

He learned how to clap his hands a few months ago and that was pretty cute. And he can give you "5"...if he wants to. This kid doesn't do tricks unless it's on his time.

He also can now feed himself which is a good and bad thing. Good for me so that I can just put food on his highchair tray and let him go for it, bad because he puts Everything in his mouth! I know babies usually do this but he just started this last month so I had things pretty easy as far as not worrying about him eating something he found. He did try to eat a rock at Lake Powell but luckily I caught it.

A little over 6 months ago he finally started rolling for real. And he did that until almost 8 months when he finally stopped rolling from one end of the room to the other and would scooch backwards instead. It took him until just the other day to really get the hang of crawling forward. Most babies his age have been crawling for months by now and are even starting to walk. We decided Kyler is just too relaxed about things to need to go anywhere or have any reason to be mobile. And honestly, I was totally ok with that. Putting him on the floor to play and knowing he would stay there was nice.

He just started pulling himself up to stuff this past week. Watch out Ladies and Gentlemen! He is on the move!

He really likes to go "babababa" by hitting his hand over his mouth (if that makes sense). He makes lots of silly faces and he loves to do anything else he can to make us laugh.

Speaking of laughing he has some funny laughs. Sometimes it sounds like a "ssss ssss" like Ernie on Sesame Street would do. And other times it is just a funny noise i can't describe while his whole body just shakes. He is so silly!

What Kyler Loves:

The water! He loves his baths. Loves to splash and never cries when i pour water over his head. At Lake Powell he loved being in the water and never complained, even when the waves would splash him in the face.

This kid loves to eat. He is an excellent eater and I hope it stays that way. He hasn't eaten too much real table food before recently because he had a hard time getting the chewing thing down. Baby food is pretty runny and he was used to just swallowing it. Now he will eat lots of stuff and some of his favorites are jelly sandwiches, apple sauce and cereal puffs.

He loves dogs. He has always been around them and is never afraid of them, no matter how big. He gets so excited when he see's one.

Books. I hope he is a reader. He loves to be read to and if he finds a book he will hand it to you and quietly wait while you read it to him. Then if you hand it back to him he will look at it for a second and then just hand it back so you can read it again. I've already read a few of his books too many times to count!

I wanted to post a ton of pictures on here, now that I have a computer, but for some reason it isn't working so they will have to come later. Keep checking back becuase the rest of the blogs I want to do have pictures as well.