Nearly 10 months

Oren will be 10 months old at the end of this week – I honestly cant believe how fast the time has gone. It feels like no time ago that I was pregnant with him and waiting for him to arrive… and now he is already a year old.

DaddyB has started on the babyproofing of the house, we have a stairgate at the bottom of the stairs and most of the kitchen cupboards have child locks on them. There are a few other safety issues which we need to sort out, but we are nearly there.

Oren walks around with his walker with incredible ease now. A couple of times i have let go of his hands and he has managed to stand up on his own for a second or two before losing his balance.
He says baba and dada a lot, no mama yet though! He is great at giving kisses, although he always does them with his mouth open so other people dont always realise what he is trying to do! He is very good at waving, and intermittently shaking his head, although I dont think he knows what that means.

He is still a little flirt, and when I have been out with female friends of mine he plays a flirting game with them. He tends to put his head to one side while looking at them and smiling, until they copy him. And once they do he repeats it over and over. He is a very big flirt my little one!
It is amazing how much I love him, I cant imagine life without him, infact the thought of that is probably the thing which terrifies me the most.

Now that home life is getting sorted out a bit more, I am making an effort to help Oren interact with other children his age. He played with his friend who is 14 months older than him on Monday, and he loved that. He is seeing a friend who is 1 month younger than him this weekend when we go and stay with friends, and then on Monday he is seeing his girlfriend, who is 2 weeks older than him. Hopefully, DaddyB will be able to take Oren back to swimming classes soon too, which is another chance for Oren to see friends, as well as spend some quality time with his Dad.

First time on the swings!!

MummyB decided that she wanted to celebrate her very first Mother's Day by taking Oren for his first time on a swing! Oren didnt seem too sure at first, but soon got the hang of it! And he really appreciated the bar of fudge which DaddyB bought for him as a treat :o)

Seperation Anxiety?

Oren is entering a new clingy phase… hard to tell whether it is just because he is at that age or because all the changes which are starting to take place as we move house are unsettling him.
We have had to change his bedroom while DaddyB repaints his bedroom to the old magnolia colour, and Oren has been carted backwards and forwards between the new house 4 times this week.

Last night Oren woke up in the middle of the night screaming, and just couldnt be resettled. DaddyB put him in bed with us, and Oren was looking up at me with his big eyes and just touching my face with his finger. He slept with us last night (a very rare occurence) though he hogged my side of the bed and kept kicking his feet in my belly… naughty boy.

We had shipped a load of stuff over to the new house today, and Oren just wouldnt let me put him down. Everytime I put him on the floor he screamed even if I sat next to him! He just wanted to be held, which made me helping to carry stuff around practically impossible.
So the plan is to try and minimise the clingyness, my boy is usually so happy and confident, it is frustrating but also a bit heart-wrenching to see him like this!!