10 (and a half) months

Yes, our little man is ten (and a half) months.  Life has been busy, and before I knew it, we were halfway through December.  From Thanksgiving to now we have been non-stop, but I guess that's most people these days.  I wrapped up my online classes this past weekend, and feel like I can breathe a little easier now.  I've found that working from home can be tough sometimes with two small kids!  One of my new year's resolutions will be to be more intentional about carving out dedicated time for my classes.  Let's see how that goes!

Owen is doing great, and getting so big!  He. is. everywhere.  He crawls all over the place, pulls up on everything, cruises around anything he can hold on to, and gets into everything.  He can make a mess like nobody else.  He loves to get into everything, take it all out of its place, and he is great at ignoring you!  He would much rather play with random things around the house like doorstops, and paper, than actual toys.  He's now using his walker too, and can walk around the house with it.  He loves it, and has a huge smile on his face while he's doing it.

He can make shopping a little tricky

And he's such a great helper

His world of food has expanded quite a bit and he loves table food.  We haven't found anything he doesn't love.  He's a bottomless pit.  He will eat if there is food in front of him, and I haven't ever had him stop eating with food on his plate.  I don't think he ever gets full!

Sleeping is great, with him sleeping through the night, and sleeping until 7!!!  Because he was so sensitive to caffeine when he was really small, I had to cut it out.  That was really tough, especially with him waking up no later than 6 every morning.  I brought back caffeine last week with a cup of coffee in the morning, and it hasn't affected him.  So I'm sleeping until close to 7, and drinking my morning cup of caffeine, and I'm a brand new woman!  Yay!

Those eyelashes!

We got some wonderful news this this month.  We had a follow-up appointment with a pediatric urologist in San Antonio to check Owen's kidneys.  They are now normal, and he has hydronephrosis no more!  The doctor said that in majority of cases, there is no re-occurrence, and he should be normal from here on out.