Will and Jon,
The two of you are now 10 months old. My how the time seems to fly. This past month has seen an explosion in what you are able to do. You both cruise a lot, but especially you Will. Often you seem to prefer stepping and moving along hand over hand, lurching between pieces of furniture instead of crawling. Jon still lets go and stands sometimes, but if you can't reach the next piece of furniture, you let go sit down and crawl. And because you work so much at it, you have gotten really fast with the crawling.
You both are eating much better. You have breakfast, lunch and supper now along with nursing. Jon is liking baby food and mashed up or pureed stuff better. Will prefers actual food, and really dislikes purees. Will you are still the better eater on average. Jon you are doing better, but for some strange reason, almost every bite no matter what it is you take it out of your mouth and look at it before putting it back in and eating it. It's incredibly messy, and I have no idea what purpose it serves, it's not like it is really any different than the millisecond before when you saw it on the spoon. Both of you have 4 teeth all the way in now. Jon you have run a bit of a fever this morning, and your upper gums are swollen, so I suppose you are working on the next two upper teeth. You are both eating a variety of fruits, veggies, bread, and sometimes meat now.
In pure desperation a few weeks ago, after a night where I was up 6 times in 8 hours for a minimum of 20 to 30 minutes each time, I started researching sleep training. Your siblings for the most part all figured out the sleeping thing on their own, but that wasn't happening with the two of you. The first night was pure torture. Will you screamed for an hour and 40 minutes before you gave up and went to sleep. I went in about every 15 minutes or so and settled you down, but you didn't want to sleep in that bed. Jon protested along with you for about an hour before he gave up. Over the last two weeks, we have gone from that to you, Will going down and rolling over to snuggle into the covers with no fussing at night. Jon still fusses between 2 and 5 minutes at night. About till I get out of the room. It is like you think if I fuss she might come back, and when I leave, you decide it's not worth the trouble anymore. We have this routine now, after your baths, I nurse you both, carry you to you room and hold you while glow worm plays a song or two, and then I put you both down with it still playing between 9 and 9:30. I have been nursing you once during the night usually between midnight and 1, but the last 3 or 4 nights, you have both slept through till around 7:30 or 8 in the morning.
Naps on the other hand are still rough. Sometimes you will take about an hour nap, and sometimes you spend the whole hour pitching a fit. Sometimes even when I get the two of you up, Jon continues to complain, as if to let me know that he is NOT pleased with my behavior. Will usually takes two naps a day now, Jon always takes one, but not always both. We keep putting you down, hoping despite the time change and the Florida Fellowship Meeting last weekend, to eventually get the naps straightened out too. The change in your sleep has left you both more content to sit and play in the floor. You aren't as demanding to be held now. Though Will still enjoys cuddling some every day.
You both say da-da, both just babbling, and when looking at your Daddy. Will looked straight at me and said ma-ma for the first time this morning, which made me so happy. You both also say something like Bruh-Bruh that the kids are sure is Britt. I really think you use it for several of your siblings though. It is crazy to think we have 6 weeks left in the year, and then you will be 1. I think you will be walking long before then.
We love you, sweet boys,
Love,
Momma
