Nolden Snapshots: 10 months old!

Yeah...so i'm pretty late at posting this....That's right, Jake is 10 months old!....and a week....*cough* today. I can't believe that he's been longer outside of me than in me, but then again I can. My pregnancy feels like a speck in the past and it's hard to remember what life was like without a kid-I feel like he's always been around even though Code and I enjoyed 2 years of marriage without kids.
So what does our lil man like to do?

Eating

Well he eats a jar of baby food 3 times a day. He LOVES any kind of fruit though he still eats the vegetables/meats (except turkey) and also seems to especially like sweet potatoes. We've started giving him bits of bread and stuff to play with/eat during dinner which keeps him happy which keeps us happy. He mostly plays. Hasn't quite grasped the concept of finger food but he'll get there. He still has 4 8oz bottles every day too.

Teeth: He has 2.5 teeth now with a 4th on the way. He has his two bottom middle teeth and one front tooth coming in with the other close behind. Needless to say we don't let him suck/chew on us anymore.

Skills

While Jake still isn't really crawling up on his knees and everything, he is scooting/army crawling and can get places pretty quick. His favorite thing to chase and track down are our phones or any kind of remote...or our DVD towers....i'm telling ya our entertainment center needs to become available quick! He doesn't really pull himself up on anything...though we don't really own a ton of things that are at his level that he could pull up on...but if we stand him up holding on to the couch he likes it and can last a few minutes before falling over. He mostly babbles with "bah" sounds with the occasional "Guh" and f/v sounds/wet raspberries etc. He technically has said MAMA but didn't know what he was saying so it doesn't count in my book.

Sleeping/Naps: He still takes two naps a day-one is usually longer 1.5-2 hours while the other is just an hour. Every now and then he'll not sleep very long during his naps for a few days and then have a mega nap one day. Jake goes to bed at 8 pm and gets up around 7:30ish am. He used to always sleep til or past 8 am but lately he's started getting up earlier which makes me being able to get ready for the day first impossible, but it's all good.

Favorites: He loves to go and see the animals at a local farm and laughs his head off when we feed them grass.

He is warming up to the splash pad-I think it's the cold water he doesn't like, but he loves splashing-which he continues to do in the bath every other night. The excited mad/screamy voice that he does in this video is a good example of how loud and crazy he gets when he's excited, bored, frustrated, you name it...my ears are ringing most days.

Jake continues to be a smiley happy kid. Everyone comments on how cute/happy he is, and he still loves to look at and smile at older girls around him. We've started going to laptime at the local library to get him exposed to other kids and he responds more to kids now, but he still seems to prefer adults-I guess that's typical of your first child. Jake loves being in the middle of the action though. When he was younger he would start to withdraw when he was in a loud noisy group/overwhelmed etc. but now he loves it. He loves going to primary with us and seeing all the kids/listening to all the songs, and within 2 minutes of holding him in sacrament the family behind us starts laughing and interacting with him.

This was the half-hearted photo shoot I attempted earlier today...as you can see it fell apart quite quickly to where I had to resort to a tickle fight to get some smiles...