In some ways, it is hard to believe ten months have flown by in a blink. In others, it has been a rocky road with Mr. Alex (as I call him with a faux Russian accent...I have NO idea why I started this, but it makes him smile his oh-so-sweet grin and I love it). From the moment he was born I knew he had a drastically different personality from our first child, but I had no idea how different this path in parenting would be. At ten months we are still struggling to understand why Alex is so much more difficult...is it us? Did we do something wrong this time??? Who knows...he just seems to want to take everything at a much slower pace, so we better fall in line with him!
PT and OT are really making a difference. We have therapy three days a week right now, so he is progressing quickly. He now rolls over both ways and sits without falling over for long periods at a time. He still loves to stand and would skip crawling all together (IMO) if he could just figure out how to get from his belly to a standing position without having to work for it. He is reaching for toys with more purpose and starting to interact more overall. He has a repertoire of "words"--he says "baba" and "dada" and "tah" very regularly (no idea what tah means...I think it is his flirty word that he uses when he wants you to talk to him). He eats well, although the past few weeks he has begun being a little more selective about what foods he likes. And he adores his big brother.
He sure keeps us on our toes. And I will be happy when we no longer have any appointments at the hospital. I feel like we should buy stock in Children's. We have already been to their clinics for visits at least 20 times since his birth--and we have three more visits scheduled for this next month--an EEG, a vision test, and a return to the cranial folks to hopefully be DONE with the helmet. If I never see another doctor as long as I live, that would be okay...wait, I live with a doctor. Scratch that!!
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Who knows, maybe as a toddler he will be one of those kids who does exactly what you want him to and won't get into anything. MAYBE, you will have one of those kids who doesn't need locks on everything. (Not that I know much about Lucas's toddler days, but I am guessing he was a lot like peanut. Nothing scars you like fishing used toilet paper out of your sweet babie's mouth)
We had a night screaming baby/cautious toddler first and then a happy go lucky/action man second. So I can without a doubt say IT IS NOT YOU. Nature and nurture both play a role. But after witnessing the differences between our two kiddos I really think there are just some things that are all nature!
Oh, and remember how big sis would cry halfway through our walks in the stroller? She STILL does it. Nature!
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