10 Months

Last Sunday, Kellan turned 10 months old...10 months old is as long as I was pregnant. It is so amazing to see how Kellan has grown and changed in the last 20 months, between the two worlds he has inhabited, one in my belly and the other out here with all of us.

Pregnant Month 1: You were the size of a poppy seed and your organs were developing.

1 Month Old: You weighed 10 pounds and lifted your head up while laying on your tummy.

Month 2: You were the size of a kidney bean with webbed fingers and toes and your brain was just forming neural pathways, breathing tubes developing between your throat and lungs.

2 Months Old: You weighed almost 13 pounds, began to smile on purpose, cooed and started to track movement.

Month 3: You were the size of a lime and developed reflexes. Your intestines were just moving into your abdominal cavity and your kidneys started to excrete urine.

3 Months Old: You rolled over on your side, started teething, could hold your head up completely and loved being read stories.

Month 4: You were the size of an avocado and your heart pumped 25 quarts of blood a day. Your eyes began to move closer to the front of your head, legs were becoming more developed, the patterning on your scalp was forming and you had toenails.

4 Months Old: You tried food for the first time. You could put a toy in your mouth by yourself and were rolling over like a pro.

Month 5: The length of a banana, at 20 weeks pregnant we were halfway there. You were practicing swallowing.

5 Months Old: You tried to sit up for the first time and would inchwork across the floor, trying to crawl.

Month 6: The length of an ear of corn, you were developing taste buds and your lungs were producing surfactant to help your air sacs inflate when you were born.

6 Months Old: You army crawled all over the house, you liked to kick a soccer ball while hanging out in your Johnny Jump Up, you cut 2 teeth, could sit up and would get up on your hands and knees and rock.

Month 7: You were the size of a Chinese cabbage, your eyes had lashes and you practiced blinking. Your brain was developing billions of neurons and you were gaining more weight.

7 Months Old: Sat up on your knees, loved bathtime and playing with anything mechanical: wheels, doors swinging, drawers...anything that had joints or rolled.

Month 8: The size of a large jicama, you were gaining a half pound a week and hair was growing...though in your case, it was only a little itty bit of hair.

8 Months Old: Stuck your tongue out and would fake laugh, trying out different laughs to find one that suited you or you would copy our laughs. You tried to feed Mommy after she fed you. You began trying to stand and played with a tooth brush like you were brushing your teeth. You stopped nursing and began taking a bottle on top of eating 3 meals a day.

9 Months: You were as big as a crenshaw melon, your head was pointing down getting ready for the day you'd be born and you started to shed the coating that had been protecting your skin for all those months in my belly.

9 Months Old: You were standing, going swimming, being chased down the hallway. You went to your first baseball game, could drink from a cup, and drummed your own music with kitchen utensils.

10 Months: You were born...