It’s pumpkin time! Anyone who knows us knows how much we love the fall and pumpkins. So we were very excited to take Seth to the little farm where we always get our pumpkins. At first he was pretty happy just to people watch, but after a little while he warmed up and got interested in the pumpkins.
Here you can see his one crazy tooth!
And a couple of bonus pics of Seth with his pumpkin crazy parents.
We picked a few little pumpkins for our front steps, but we’ll definitely be back closer to Halloween to pick our big carving pumpkins.
Seth has been working on his walking skills. He has the courage, but his balance could use some work. He’ll try to take off and his feet will just fall over each other. He finally has the patience to use this walking toy we borrowed from his cousin Lena. When we first pulled it out he would just try to run with it and completely fall on his face, but in the last day or two he’s really getting pretty good with it. It’s so funny to see how excited he is about it. Here’s some video of him from this morning.
I finally convinced Ben it was time for Seth to get his haircut. It was getting so long and was always in his eyes. So Saturday we took Seth to the salon where Ben goes to get his hair cut. I was a little worried if Seth would sit for it or try to grab the scissors the whole time, but he did great. Ben held him and he sat quietly for the whole thing.
Here’s the before and after:
I thought I might cry seeing Seth without his wild baby hair, but I didn’t. The hairdresser did a really nice job. Seth even waited patiently reading the magazines and looking out the window at Main Street while Ben got his haircut, too.
Seth is getting really good at cruising around and will walk pretty well while holding onto your fingers. He’s also really crawling on his hands and knees now. We thought he might just stay with the army crawl forever. And he is finally saying Mama! He follows me around all day saying mum, mum, mum, mama…mum, mum, mum, MaMa!
Our boy is growing up. I can’t believe there is just one month left to my baby’s first year…sniff…
Seth is all over the place and into everything now. His favorite hobby is following me around and watching how things work. He is very interested in anything that opens, because obviously we are hiding all the best things in there. In the last week Seth has decided I need some help in the kitchen. Here he is “helping” to unload the dishwasher
and reorganizing the tupperware
and getting his own lunch.
It’s amazing how quickly he can completely turn a room upside down. And once he’s figured out something opens, every time he’s near it again he just pulls and tugs at it while whining to me because he can’t open it himself, yet. Although he’s really trying with the fridge and he sticks his arm through the little opening of the tupperware cabinet that the childproof latch allows and pulls out whatever he can reach. At least when he’s following me I know where he is though.
One day he was happily playing in his room and when it got quiet I went to look for him. I couldn’t find him anywhere. I almost panicked until I saw this poking out from underneath his crib:
At just over 10 months old Seth is getting his first tooth, finally! Not that I was in any rush for him to get teeth, believe me, but I was starting to think we were going to have to get him dentures to chew those teething biscuits I got him months ago. You can imagine how difficult it was getting Seth to open his mouth and let me get a picture, so here is the best I could do.
It doesn’t look like much, but there is definitely a tiny little tooth just poking through the gum.
He spiked a fever Friday and took a 3 hour nap (unheard of for him) just to worry Ben and I enough to cancel our plans to finally go see the new Batman and then woke up fine on Saturday sporting his brand new tooth.
And just for added cuteness, here’s one of my favorites of the little troublemaker playing on the couch with Ben.
Seth is ten months old! He is busy, busy, busy now that he can crawl all over the place at lightning speed and stand up to reach all the things we didn’t baby proof the first time around. I was quite impressed that he actually sat long enough for me to get a picture that didn’t include him eating, wrestling or throwing the Autumn bear.
And here’s a bonus picture of Seth standing next to the bear, although admittedly it’s unfair to the Autumn bear since he can’t stand up.
Just a few days after Seth started consistently sitting up on his own, he tentatively pulled up to standing. Unsteady, he plunked down on his bum after a few seconds, but he was thrilled and so proud of himself!
He’s persistent and kept on trying.
In just a few days he mastered standing up and moved on to the one arm stand.
He’s now moved on to trying to figure out how to cruise from one object to the next. It’s amazing how fast they grow!
Seth also had his 9 month doctor’s appointment this week and the rapid growth of the first half of the year has slowed down. He’s 27.5 inches tall and 20lbs and 9oz. That’s up an inch and a half and a pound and a half from the 6 month visit. Which puts him in the 25% for height and 50% for weight for those that are interested. Our doctor was also quite impressed with how happy and social he is. Apparently not all babies are as easy to please, so Ben and I feel very lucky to have such a cheerful boy.
Summer has always meant the Cape to me, so it was nice to get to bring Seth on our annual family vacation to Onset along with my sister and her family. Seth enjoyed his first trip to Onset and I had a great time seeing him experience all the things I grew up with. Unfortunately the 4th of July fireworks got rained out this year, but we still had a great week.
Early in the week we took the kids to the Zooquariam, which I thought was pretty cool, but Seth was not impressed.
He much preferred the little animal ride. We took him to the park and he loved the swings, too. Looks like he might be an amusement park junkie like his Mama.
Seth had fun at the beach and especially loved the ocean. The first thing Seth did at the beach was grab fistfuls of sand and shove them into his mouth. Ben and I had anticipated this and had bought one of those tent/cabana things that keeps your kid in the shade and away from a buffet of sand. Our son however has some kind of superhuman strength and was not held in by the cabana. As you’ll see he managed to completely tip the thing over in an effort to steal his cousin’s toys. The people on the beach enjoyed the show, but I think they were even more amused by me trying to refold the stupid thing and put it back in it’s tiny little case.
Well here’s a little video of Seth’s adventures at the Cape. Enjoy!
We had a great time and because Ben is always saying this is a family blog and not just about Seth (though he shouldn’t be criticizing at all since he almost never posts) here are a couple of family pictures. Yes Seth actually has parents. At Onset Beach.The Lighthouse Inn in Dennis
I’ll leave you with one last image. We couldn’t get Seth to keep his hat on so I had to sunscreen Seth’s head instead. Our poor kid, we get such amusement at his expense.
It’s pumpkin time! Anyone who knows us knows how much we love the fall and pumpkins. So we were very excited to take Seth to the little farm where we always get our pumpkins. At first he was pretty happy just to people watch, but after a little while he warmed up and got interested in the pumpkins.
I finally convinced Ben it was time for Seth to get his haircut. It was getting so long and was always in his eyes. So Saturday we took Seth to the salon where Ben goes to get his hair cut. I was a little worried if Seth would sit for it or try to grab the scissors the whole time, but he did great. Ben held him and he sat quietly for the whole thing.
Here he is “helping” to unload the dishwasher
and getting his own lunch.
At Onset Beach.
The Lighthouse Inn in Dennis
