Sullivan at birth, almost 1 year ago.

Sully climbed into a drawer a few weeks ago and the couldn’t get back out. So here is a baby in a drawer.

Sword Fighting with a foam noodle. Yes my 10 month old likes to sword fight, you can so tell he is a child with at least one older sibling.

Today you are 10 months old. You have gone from a tiny little baby to an almost toddler. You still like to snuggle, when you sleep, otherwise you want to be on the move! You love following your big brother and sister around and trying to play with their toys. You love food, strawberries, pretzels, cucumbers, broccoli, pasta and more. You will eat everything, and throw what you don’t want on the floor for puppy!

You have 10 teeth, and more coming in. You can stand by yourself for up to a minute, and can even stand up without support (though you refuse to let me get a picture of you standing without support). You have taken a few independent steps between thing with no support. You love to stand and cruise. You are a very fast crawler, and can get into anything. You love to climb. You sword fight, and play with cars, and my little ponies. You want your own sleeping bag like your big brother and sister. You can talk and say lots of words, you rarely do, since you don’t need to most of the time, but we’ve caught you saying 2 and 3 word sentences occasionally, though normally you just point and grab what you want. You are getting so big. It is hard to believe that in 2 short months you will be 1.

You have gone from this:

To this:

In 10 short months. Happy 10 months Sully Bear!
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Just a happy Sully Bear picture today.

Here is a quick picture review of 2011, 1 picture a month, and it was hard to narrow it down to just one per month.

January

February

March (okay 2 for March)

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Sully has his 9 month appointment on the 13th. Yes it was a couple of weeks late, but since he turned 9 months right between Christmas and New Years, it worked. Anyways he has grown 2 1/2 inches since his 6 month appointment, and gained almost 2 pounds (1 pound 13 ounces). He is in the 75th percentile for height and the 50th percentile for weight. Which keeps him right on his normal curve, with his 6 month appointment being an outlier. He is doing great and meeting and exceeding all milestones for his age. He is a happy and healthy baby boy. I can’t believe his next doctor appointment he will be 1!

Oh and just for comparison. At 9 months Eloise was 16 pounds 12 ounces and 26 3/4 inches and Desmond was 22 pounds 3 ounces and 29 inches. So Sully’s height is staying pretty similar to Desmond’s at the same ages so far, and his weight is between Desmond’s and Eloise’s. I’m guessing he’ll be between 30 and 31 inches at 12 months and between 20 and 21 pounds. I guess we’ll find out in under 3 months.

At birth he was 9 pounds 4 ounces and 22 inches
At one month he was 11 pounds 3 ounces and 23 inches
At 2 months he was 13 pounds and 24 inches
At 4 months he was 15 pounds 2 ounces
At 5 months he was 16 pounds 3 ounces and 26 1/2 inches
At 6 months he was 17 pounds 8.5 ounces and 26 1/2 inches
At 9 months he was 19 pounds 5.5 ounces and 29 inches

In other news since Eloise was with us, we did a quick weighing and measuring of her, she is up to 24 pounds and was right around 33 1/2 inches. I am impressed she has gained almost 4 pounds this year, we’ll see how big she is at her appointment in less then 3 months as well when she turns 3. I can’t believe I am going to have a 1 year old, 3 year old and 5 year old in less then 3 months!

Sully and the sippy cup.

This is how he drinks from a sippy cup, no hands and he moves his head back as far as it can go so the water comes down to his mouth.

So the past few weeks we have been having rather fun weather, one day it will be 60, the next day we will get a snow shower. No real snow mind you, but just a sprinkling of snow.

Here are Desmond, Eloise and Sully enjoying the warm Saturday day in the high 50s.

And here they are on Monday in the snow!

I think this picture from Desmond sums up my feelings on December and January’s weather so far:

Trimming the tree