Yesterday Luke turned 10 months old. I don't know why, but that just feels and sounds so much older than 9 months. Perhaps it is because it is the first time in the double digits. I'm not sure. I just know that this month, heck, this week, he's done a lot of growing up.
Up is the word here. He is pulling up on everything he possibly can lately. If it's just a couple of inches off the floor, he pulls up to a kneeling position. If it's any higher, he tries to stand. Just in a few days, he went from being very slow and cautious to pulling up really fast. He's also done some minimal cruising (along the couch). His balance still needs some work, but he's definitely making progress toward walking at a very fast pace. I'm not sure how long we have before he takes his first steps. It's exciting but scary at the same time.
And with crawling, he has gotten so speedy. He can move across the room in the blink of an eye. We finally put up the gates we had bought: in the kitchen doorway and in the doorway to the hall. I do find it annoying to have to open the gates all the time to go through, especially the one for the kitchen, but it is good to know that if my attention wanders for a minute, Luke won't be in the kitchen or down the hall before I know it.
The cats, however, seem a bit mystified by the gates. We bought the low ones on purpose so they would be able to jump over them; however, they aren't doing it. They just stand on one side of the gate and meow. Merlin did jump over once to get out of the kitchen. And we have a small scratching post that we've put on the hallway side of that gate that Guenevere has finally figured out to use to jump onto and then over the gate. I'm hoping the cats will completely figure it out soon. Sam whines enough as it is; he doesn't need another reason to whine!
So my days lately have been spent letting the cats through the gate into and out of the hallway constantly having to get up and get Luke after he's crawled over to something that he shouldn't touch (my computer power cord, the cat scratching post, books on the bookshelf, DVDs, etc.), and making sure there is a pillow behind him when he is standing so if he falls back, he won't smack his head on the hardwood floors.
The other thing that seems to have shifted in the past week is Luke's sleeping routine. I noticed that he was not wanting to go down for his morning nap as early as usual (usual was around 8:30 or 9 and the past week it's been closer to 10). Then for most mornings he took a longer nap. That resulted in a very late afternoon nap (usually not as long). But then that started making bedtime difficult. He had been going to bed around 6:30 or 7. Last night he didn't go to sleep until 10. Eek! He was just wide awake and full of energy and didn't seem the least bit interested in sleep.
So today he took a late morning nap for an hour and a half. We decided to try skipping the afternoon nap. He got a little cranky around 5:00, but feeding him dinner seemed to help with that. Otherwise, he was just a ball of energy all afternoon. We got him ready for bed around 5:45 and after nursing and a little rocking, he fell asleep fast. I hope that he has a good long stretch of sleep (he's had a couple of 4-5 hour stretches this past week and last week he had a 7 hour stretch which is his longest ever).
Tomorrow I plan to try pushing the morning nap back a bit more (although that will depend on how he's acting) to see if one nap will work for him--but trying for an afternoon nap over a morning nap. This may mean that we're going to have to miss some upcoming playgroups (boo!) but it does seem like he's leaning toward being a one nap sleeper. We'll see what happens.
Here are pictures from yesterday:
And one from today:
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