All About Atrion

Atrion is the joy of my life. He's so funny! No matter what mood I am in, he can always make me smile.
I wanted to dedicate this blog to him (even though every other blog has him in it too).
He'll be 10 months on the 13th of this month! That's so big!! I can't believe how old he is getting. At his last WIC appointment he measured at 22 lbs and 31 1/4". He always gets comments about how tall he is. He is quite tall, but I am not sure its going to be a lasting thing since neither Cody nor I is very tall. Who knows, though. Here is a list of some funny things that he does that makes me smile all day long.
~ scrunches up his little nose when he smiles and gets all snuffy (if you don't know what snuffy means, I'm sorry, but I don't know how else to explain it).
~ Whenever he hears water running, the fridge turning on, the dishwasher switch cycles, or anything along those lines- he sprint crawls over to it in record time to investigate.
~ Whenever he sits queitly for a few moments looking at a book or contemplating a toy.
~ When I go to get him out of his crib in the morning or after a nap, he is always smiling with his one little tooth poking out and he always gives me a love and a kiss.
~ He falls asleep in his car seat with his hand palm up on his chubby little legs and his face squished against his shoulder. That just tickles me when I go to get him out of the car.
~ I walked into his room when he was supposed to be asleep and he was reaching so hard for the books on his book shelf (which I though was far enough away). He had 5 in his crib already and a pile on the floor.


~ He has a little song that he sings when he crawls for toy he is excited about. I say song, but its more of a happy sound he makes.
~ He says "DADADADADADADADADA!" over and over again when he sees Cody.
~ He knows what the words "ball", "bottle", "sit", "No, NO", "Dada", "Mama", "Book", and "Num Num" means. He'll go find his ball when I say "Where's the ball?"
~ He loves to attack my toes and sometimes I will be surprised when a slobbery mouth is suddenly gnawing on one of mine.
~ He's always so happy to be outside even when it's windy. He does little gasping sounds like he's drowning in wind, but he's smiling the whole time.

~ I love when I feed him a bottle and his little hand reaches up and touches my face softly.
~ I love when I read him a book and he laughs hysterically at the voices I do.
~ He yells in excitement at the "Directv" logo that floats across the tv screen when a show is paused.
~ He makes his mouth into a little "O" and says "oohoh" when he sees something new or a toy that he wants to get.

~ I love that every time I take his picture, he makes this face:

Also, that is Cody's picture on the left and my baby picture on the right. Atrion looks more like Jake when he was a baby, I think. :)
I love my baby more than anything in this entire world and I am so grateful for his beautiful spirit and sweet smile. I'm so excited to see him take his first steps and say his first real words. I'm so happy that I have the priviledge of being able to stay at home with him and help him learn and grow and love on him all day.