A handsome little dude

Robby officially became a handsome little dude yesterday when I pulled out some of his next-size-up clothes-- he was suddenly this little man-child, instead of a baby! Here are some Robby developmental updates:

Around July 30 he started to be able to put himself into a sitting position.  Over the next 4 weeks while we were in the Northwest he went from Army crawling around everywhere, to real-crawling, and pulling himself up to stand on everything.  Robby is 10.5 months and he now has 3 visible teeth, and eats "real people" food along with us at dinner sometimes. He eats mandarin oranges, peaches, pasta, bread, and any cracker he can get his hands on. 

Robby's favorite toy is our laugh and learn playhouse.  I could seriously leave him in the middle of the living room playing with it, leave for 5 minutes to do laundry or dishes, and come back where he would STILL be playing with it.  

He loves to rough-house... if he sees other people starting to wrestle or play rough, he crawls over like a rocket to get in on the action.  Robby is also a sensitive little soul, who is easily offended, and yells at us freely when we have done him wrong (moved him out of the way, pulled him off of Megan, taken an electrical cord away from him, etc).  

It is still too early for him to talk, but he does lots of babble, and will repeat things back to you.  We call him "bubba" and we can get him going "bubba bubba bubba."  He also says "da a-da a-da," and Megan does a REALLY good impression of him saying it.  Robby will now clap, and he also blows raspberries on command and he will also blow puffs of air (trying to copy us when we blow his hair). 

Robster is a very happy boy who always has a smile and a giggle on hand, ready to distribute. Look at these pictures of our big boy!