- Hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
In today's video,
I am going to do Jackson's 10 month update,
and if you're wondering where he is,
he is actually napping at the moment,
but I thought I would take the opportunity to film this
because he has a thing about cameras and camera lenses,
so whenever I film with him now,
he just reaches out to the camera,
and he is so vocal now as well,
so I was like this is probably gonna be easier to film
with must me talking to you,
but I'm gonna put lots of cut-ins of Jackson
and what he looks like today,
and this month he is doing so much.
I cannot believe how grown up he is,
and I can't even believe that he's 10 months old,
it makes me so sad because he's my last little baby,
and he's just getting so big,
like he's nearly walking.
He is so physical and so strong.
He stands very well now,
I think in his last month update
I said he was cruising very well,
so he's still cruising on the couch,
but now he can also take his hands away sometimes
and he'll literally just be leaning
with the tiniest bit of his stomach on the couch.
He's not actually standing independently yet,
or walking yet, but he's only 10 months old,
but his older brothers
both walked when they were 11 months old.
He crawls like properly finally.
For ages, he just did an army crawl
because that was far quicker, and to be honest,
sometimes if he want to get very quickly,
he'll just drop to the floor and army crawl to it.
He can now crawl.
In the last month as well, we've been practicing walking
with his VTech Walker, and he's getting very good at that.
I kind of still stand right behind him
'cause I'm so nervous he's gonna fall,
but he is definitely getting close.
The biggest development and change
that I've noticed in Jackson in the past month
is that he is a very communicative baby now.
He talks all the time, he's so vocal,
he likes to scream, he likes to chat,
he will say words in context now,
so he says mama when he sees me,
he says dada when he sees Matt,
he waves and he says hiya 'cause I always say hiya,
and he says that as well.
And he just seems to want to talk all the time.
If one of his brothers or someone we know walks in,
he will say hiya and start babbling away,
and the funniest thing is
he likes to talk to our Google Home.
We've had it since he was born,
and it's basically a device that you ask the weather,
you ask it to play music,
and he will see it,
and I swear he says like Googeh, like Gooogle,
and then he'll been like ugh-la-la-la,
and I swear he's trying to say play Ed Sheeran
because he loves it when I play music like that
through the Google Home,
so it's just crazy that he's already trying to talk to that.
But I shouldn't really be surprised
because he has a person talking to him like 24/7.
If it's not me, then it's Matt,
if it's not Matt, it's the boys,
there's someone always there stimulating him,
and talking to him,
so I guess he's always had someone to talk to.
He's also been teething in the past month,
and he has one new tooth as a result,
so that is seven in total now.
He has four up at that top, three on the bottom,
and he's really using them now.
He can eat a sandwich very well,
and I can see him use the front of his mouth to eat.
To combat his teething,
we've been using dribble bibs a lot
to catch all of the drool that is coming down,
and for the pain, we have been using Teetha powder,
Anbesol liquid, and I had to use Calpol once this month
because he was so very hot.
I try my best to avoid using
any kind of paracetamol with him,
but he really was in pain when the tooth was popping up.
In terms of food and drink with Jackson,
he is doing really, really well with all of that.
He's still breastfed exclusively,
and I would say he feed about four to five times a day.
It is getting closer to four times a day
because sometimes it's just 7 a.m. when he wakes up,
11-ish if he's a little bit hungry,
but sometimes I can keep him going with just a snack,
and then mid-afternoon, and then at 7 p.m. as well.
Yeah, so it is only four times a day now,
but he is on three meals a day,
and he is also having snacks at 10 p.m.
and at about 2:30 as well,
and he's doing really well with his food,
but literally, in the past maybe day or so,
I have started to notice that he is favoring sweet things
over vegetables and things,
and me and Matt were talking yesterday
and we were like oh my God, not already,
he's not becoming a fussy eater already,
he's actually a really good eater,
he eats sandwiches so well and solid food.
I think because I've done baby-led weaning
he really likes proper food,
but he loves fruit pouches,
he loves yogurt, he is not silly,
and I think 'cause he has older brothers,
he has tried a few things that I would never have allowed
my older sons to have.
Like the other day, Fraser was handing him Quavers,
and he was like oh my God, this is amazing,
and then he also grabbed a drink of his brothers
and it was squash, and you should've seen his face,
it was like why have I been drinking water?
This is amazing.
He drinks really well from a beaker for a baby so young.
He actually really loves having a drink,
maybe it's 'cause it's the summer,
but if I give him a beaker of water,
he really drinks quite a lot,
and I've started giving him
a little bit of cow's milk at night.
When we're all relaxing, I'll let him have a bit of that
because he is 10 months old now,
and then I'll always top him up with breast milk,
but I think I might as well start slowly the weaning.
Right, I think Jackson heard me talking about him,
so I'll finish the update with him here.
He just had a little nap.
Oh let's wave then, that's what he does.
He waves, he claps so well, he high fives, oh look!
Claps yeah, can you do the high five?
Do a high five, yeah, high five (laughs).
And he also blows kisses now, and he is such a flirt.
Yesterday we went to PizzaExpress for dinner,
and the waitress came up and took our order,
and then when she was there he was going (blows kisses),
like really flirting with the waitress.
Will you show them how you kiss?
(both blow kisses)
That's it (blows kiss).
Will you blow them a kiss?
Right, I've just put him on the play mat,
he is playing with cars and blocks,
he loves cars, they are his favorite toy.
He loves anything with wheels that spins around,
so he also loves his brothers' fidget spinners,
he can spin those around for ages.
He love helicopters, he likes musical instruments,
he still loves our spice rack as well,
he crawls over to our sideboard
and opens the door all the time,
and then gets all the spices out,
and that's another thing that he really loves,
he loves doors, cupboard doors,
he loves to just slam them all day long.
To be honest, he really likes anything that is dangerous
and that he shouldn't have.
So he loves doors, he loves plug sockets, he loves stairs,
he loves very small objects that he probably shouldn't have.
Also randomly really loves our security lights.
Around the house we have sensors and they flash red,
and he loves them, he talks to them, he waves to them.
And he still really loves bath time,
he loves standing up in the bath still,
and I'm so glad that I bought a sticky mat
to go on the bottom of our bath,
so that he has a little bit of grip
when he stands up and when he sits in the bath.
In terms of sleep,
Jackson has been sleeping straight through the night,
and I'm just so proud at how good he is at settling himself.
He goes down at about 6:30,
it's sometimes seven, I aim for seven,
but he's always so tired it's normally 6:30,
and then he'll sleep straight through till 6:30 or 7 a.m.
And in terms of naps, he has two naps a day,
he will always have a nap in the morning,
two hours from when he woke up,
so if he woke up at six, he'll need a nap at eight,
or if he woke up at seven, he'll need a nap at nine.
He can only really go two hours in the morning,
so sometimes it feels like he has breakfast
and goes back to bed, which would be lovely, wouldn't it?
But that morning nap
can sometimes be the best nap of his day,
so sometimes he'll have an hour or two
first thing in the morning,
and then we'll go out and do stuff,
so I'm finding it hard to book play groups or anything
because I just never really know
how long he's gonna sleep for, and I hate waking up babies,
so I just let him nap as long as he wants,
and then depending on when he wakes up,
he will need another nap after lunch
at about 12:30 or 1 p.m.
it just depends on what time he woke up
from his morning nap,
and then that 12 or one o'clock nap
is normally about an hour long.
Sorry, he's really running away.
I've given him a biscuit now, so he's happy,
yeah you, yeah.
But yeah, Jackson is in one year clothing now
because he's such a tall boy.
A few people have commented that he's quite slim.
I still think his legs are quite chunky and stuff,
but I guess he is quite tall and slim,
but then his dad is, and I'm not a massive person,
so I'm not worried about how slim he is
or anything like that.
He is my first dark-haired child.
Fraser and Caleb at this age were very blonde,
but he is a lot more like my husband, Matt.
The only other update that I wanted to say
is that Jackson is still attached at my hip.
He does definitely get separation anxiety,
especially if I hand him over to someone
and then go to walk away, he will cry,
and if I kind of walk near someone who's holding him,
he lunges for me and says mama.
Yeah, he's definitely suffering
from a little bit of separation anxiety,
and I feel so lucky
that I don't have to put him
into any kind of child care at the moment.
I definitely in the future
will look at preschools and nurseries and something,
but not just yet.
But it's funny 'cause all the clothes
that he's wearing at the moment that were his brothers'
they are all labeled,
and it makes me feel like aw, they were actually so small
when I put them into nursery.
So yeah, you're lucky,
you're probably gonna be oh, all spoiled.
He's a really easy guy, he's pretty happy,
he's always content as long as he's full up,
and he has some toys, he's a pretty happy guy,
so you're not too complicated, are you?
But yeah, anyway, I hope you liked this update,
give it a like if you did,
and thank you so much for watching,
and we will see you very soon.
Can you say bye-bye?
Say bye-bye.
Bye.
That's it.