Derek

Monster man Derek! Derek is almost 10 months old, and 22 lbs. He army crawls all over the place, and has just started pulling himself up. He is of course a momma's boy, like my other kids. He puts EVERYTHING in his mouth. This morning Issac was walking around picking up any paper off the floor, saying "pick up trash before baby gets it". He has a beautiful smile and laugh. When the kids are playing up stairs he sits at the bottom and yells at them. The other night he cried until I took him upstairs and let him play with them. We love having the "baby" around. His favorite toy is these balls that Aunt Shelly gave him that have textures on them. He can palm the balls and then throws them. Other than that, he doesn't like baby toys, he just wants what the other kids have of course.

He claps, and he says "S" all the the time. He always thinks you are talking to him and he tries to talk back. He likes me to bounce my hand across his mouth as he makes noise so that it kind of vibrates. He has 6 teeth and he is finally getting hair! Yeah!