10 Months of Vincey

Our son Vincent is 10 months old now and as I look at pictures of him from birth until now, I’m utterly amazed. It’s truly fascinating the way we grow and develop.

The first year of life, shoot the first 3 days shows just how quickly our bodies begin to adapt to our surroundings. Over these past few months, Vincent has grown and learned and figured out so many things in life. Skills and activities that are now old to us and such second nature that we don’t even think twice about them.

One of these things is the way he puts the cover on his bottle once he’s finished drinking it. This is a signal he gives us to say, “I’ve had enough, no more.“ He pushed his bottle away from his mouth and then works and works at placing the air tight cover on to his bottle. His dad and I didn’t teach us this and I’m sure at some point he noticed we cover the bottle. But the action itself and his timing, that was all learned by him.

Learning how to stand on his own, was an action he began to teach himself. One day, Vincent started to pull himself up on anything and everything around him in our apartment. I watched in awe thinking, “How does he just know to do that?”. Shoutouts to the man above for creating human life, our brains and manufacturing the exact workings of our entire bodies down to the most minute details.

In 10 months he has gone from a newborn baby, completely dependent on us for everything except urinating and pooping (for the most part). Now he can feed himself snacks and he’s getting the hang of holding his bottle on his own to feed himself. He somehow knows to go into his corner to isolate himself to poop. He crawls at lightning speed from one room to the next, waiting on no one! He can communicate with us in his own special way by babbling, yelling and calling ‘mama’ and ‘dada’ when he feels like it lol.

To bring forth life is a truly humbling and fulfilling feeling. But to watch as life grows and develops is just as humbling and fulfilling, especially when it’s your own child.