Happy 10-Month Birthday, Declan!

The boyo is going like mad. He stood on his own on Tuesday and took 2 unassisted steps! Since then, he's been practicing his balance by letting go of whatever he's pulled himself up on. Declan's vocab is up to Dada, Mama, Nana (thanks to weekly visits), Na (Mika), and he tries to say new things all the time. It's just variations of Da, Dada, Ma, Mama, Na, nana (get the picture?), but he is trying.
The boy is a climber. Mika was not. Declan is up and over almost any obstacle we put in his path. He whips things around a lot too. Like Mika's fold out couch thing - he turns it upside down into a fort-like structure and then scales it.

I'm being hailed for craft time - just glad that I remembered to get his 10-month post in on time...

* Declan is really into waving Hello/Goodbye and clapping too. In addition to his How Big is Declan? SO BIG routine...I adore how he looks at his hands with such surprise each time, like "Dudes? Did you see what my hands just did? SERIOUSLY!" He also opens cupboards and drawers all the time and helps himself to the contents.