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.