Carter is 10 months!

Hello all! I'm so sorry that it's been about 2 months since I've done a real post...I do have some excuses though...*ahem*....#1: I've been busy being very very sick with baby number 2. #2: I lost my camera for about a month, but then was lucky enough to find it while searching for the remote control between the couch cushions! #3: ......I don't have a number 3. Sorry! But below are all the pictures I've taken in the last 2 months (there aren't too many...remember? lost camera?)

Things around the Wallo household have been pretty boring, honestly. I've been so sick that we haven't really done anything interesting in a while. Our biggest adventures are going to Target and Costco. It's really quite sad.

Carter, on the other hand, is growing in leaps and bounds!! He's now over 10 months old and is becoming so much fun. He loves to wave to everyone and everything (including us, the people on the TV, his high chair when I get him out, the room when we leave, the cars we drive by, etc. I caught him waving to the wine bottles at the grocery store the other day). He also loves to high five, give kisses, turn off the lights, and play with his ball popper. He loves to play games, too. He loves to stand up, crouch down, and stand up again (and expects you to say "up" "down" really excitedly). He also loves to throw his hands up in the air expecting you to do the same and then laughing hysterically. He still loves doing "the horn on the bus" and loves the itsy bitsy spider. He's also started playing with his toys the way they're meant to be played with, like rolling around his cars and trains. Carter also now understands much of what we say. When we say, "Are you hungry?" he'll smack his lips if he is. It's surprising how many things he can understand now. It's so much fun for us to see him growing and learning new things.

Carter is also a BIG boy! At his 9 month appointment he was 30" tall (95%) and 21.5 lbs (70%). The poor boy had croup a couple weeks ago, which was rough, but he was then weighing in at 23 lbs! He started crawling at 8 1/2 months and 2 days later started pulling up to standing on the furniture and cruising around while holding on. He can now stand for short periods of time without holding on to anything. He's crazy active and gets into EVERYTHING! We're constantly having to baby proof things and when he figures them out, trying to be creative to figure out another solution. He also loves to act like a comedian. He likes to make this funny breathing-in-while-making-a-rattling-noise sound and then laughs at himself because he thinks he's funny. He loves when you laugh at something he does! It's so funny that he's realizing that certain things are "funny". We're loving this phase of his life and his goofy half smile. He's such an amazing little boy!

The following pictures go in order of oldest to newest...

Playing in his exersaucer at about 8 months old

That's right, a big brother! You can see a better version of this picture in the below post...

Starting to pull up on furniture (about 1 1/2 mos ago)

Carter went through a phase of playing with his binky like it was a toy...he was never interested in what it was really meant for!

Carter figured out he can get into his toy bin all by himself

Such a happy boy

Carter LOVES to watch Wheel of Fortune

These are the most recent pictures, taken just a few days ago at 10 months old

Hanging out with Daddy

Playing with his ball popper. He can turn it on by himself and collect the balls as they pop out and put them back in. I had a video of it but it wouldn't upload...

Standing up on his own (yes, Tyler's asleep in the background)

If you haven't seen the posts below be sure to check them out, too. I got 3 out of 5 videos to upload and then the pregnancy announcement is below that. I promise to be better about posting in the future!