10 Months!

Aaden turned 10 months old today!  I can't believe it, he's going to be 1 year in just 2 short months!  All of a sudden he seems to be growing up so much!

Aaden is just full of personality.  He's such a ham and is just a goofball, he gets funnier and funnier everyday.  He's all over the place and he crawls so fast.  He still has his funny little crawl where he uses one foot as a propeller.  He pushes off of his left foot, his left knee is never on the floor.  The right knee on all of his pants get real dirty!  He cruises around furniture and can stand on his own for quite a long time.  I keep waiting for him to take a step - he looks interested but I haven't seen him try yet.  I bet he'll be walking by his 1st birthday.
He weighs 23 pounds.  He is eating all kinds of different stuff.  We have yet to find anything that he doesn't like.  We just started putting frozen peaches in the little mesh feeder and he really likes it, I think it feels good on his gums and tastes good.  He has one tooth right now and another one starting to come in so the mesh feeder has been put to good use lately.  He eats pretty much anything we eat as long as it's not a choking hazard and it's fairly healthy.  No honey or cow's milk yet.  He really likes cheese, pasta, beans, green beans, bread, fruits, pretty much anything it seems!  He LOVES bananas and has one every morning.  He has even started to say what sounds like "banana".  It's "nananananana".  He's babbling a lot more and making all kinds of different noises and sounds but nothing that is too definitive of a word except for "mama", "dada", "baba". 
He's totally into mimicing now - he loves to beat "drums" when someone else does and he'll growl back and forth and also blow raspberries back and forth with people.  He is clapping more and waving more.  And he's giving kisses more often when we ask.  It's so sweet and he gets really excited after.  His laugh is just the best thing in the world.  Still really ticklish on his back.
He is loving all of his big boy toys especially his big CAT truck that my Dad got him when I was still pregnant.  He also likes his little Leap Frog Learn and Groove Table.  He likes balls and trucks and books.  But of course, his favorite things are still things that he's not supposed to have - cords, photo albums, picture frames, night lights, the pen holder that's by the desk that Aaron won't keep up out of reach, and his total new love is for toilet paper.  He loves rolling it off, tearing some off and then shoving it in his mouth.  This kid loves paper for some reason?  We're having to do some time outs with him and he's starting to learn the word "NO!" - we try not to use it too much but there are somethings he needs to learn that he can't play with.
He is doing pretty well sleeping and naps are getting better.  We are going to start weaning his daytime bottles to sippy cups.  We tried it once recently and he did pretty good, I was worried that he wouldn't want it but he didn't seem to mind it at all.  We are looking forward to being done with formula in a couple of months and think we'll start slowly weaning towards cow's milk in about a month.
All in all - everything is great.  Aaden is a happy, healthy boy who is just fun to be with.  I look forward to the upcoming stages.