My Dearest Gabriel,Monthly newsletters nine and ten are BELATED. But, that's not because you are any less loved or important. It is because Mommy has less and less free time these days since you are moving and growing at an exponential rate!
During your ninth month you started 'cruising' our home with great speed. You love your new vertical freedom and rewarded your father and I with your first steps just after you turned ten months of age. You're still unsteady and hesitant, but with each passing day, you grab hold of my hand a little surer of yourself and I know the day is coming when you will let go and go...
You are such a delightful boy. Everywhere we go people comment on how good you are. At this stage, Mommy can go shopping and put you in the cart and you are content to look around and flirt with passerbys. However, you do have your moments of temper when things aren't going your way or especially when a new tooth is coming in.
But, you're even more adorable when you're a big fuss...Daddy started working this month and you have missed him. He's a big shot insurance salesman with AIG and a representative agent for LAW Enterprises, identity theft solutions. Every afternoon when Daddy gets home, you look forward to heading to his office and helping him rearrange the mail and other assorted items. You are very much a Daddy's boy which delights my heart.
You can say Ma-Ma, Da-Da, Hey, and you just started waving bye-bye. You also mimic sounds from your toys, like a growl or the sound of a car zooming by. You are very much a little boy and love to push things around as if they were a car of some sort. I am amazed at the innate traits of boyness that I watch emerge daily. You are more joyful than I ever dreamed my little boy would be.
We spend our days together in Mommy's studio. It has been a long and arduous process getting the business going, but I believe we have some good structures in place now and will enjoy our years of being able to work out of our home. Most of all, I enjoy never having to leave you with anyone other than a family member.
You are a VERY big boy. At nine months, you weighed in at 24.8lbs and at ten months you were already 26.8lbs. You are also in the 97th percentile for height and weight...guess you'll take after Mommy in that regard.
Every day brings something new. You give your father and I the impetus for CARPE DIEM. I've never shared something more precious in my whole life.
We love you immensely, our big baby boy!
Mommy
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