10 Months Old

I made myself a liar and promised pictures in the 9 month post but did not deliver. So here's a quick summary of the past month followed by many, many pictures from the past two!

Our little guy is a crawling maniac and can get from one end of the room to the other in about half a second it seems.
He can stand on his own when properly motivated, and walks holding onto everything. He can pull himself up onto just about anything as well, including our legs constantly.
He loves the sunshine and being outside. Whenever there is sun streaming in through a window onto the floor or the bed he tries to "pick it up" and acts like he is putting it in his mouth to eat. It's so sweet.
He is starting to eat real table food now, and loves to feed himself. The only thing he will even try to drink from a cup is orange juice or grapefruit juice.
He has six little teeth, four on top and two on bottom, and he loves to grind them together. It gives me the chills to hear that awful noise though!!
He absolutely loves to be read to. I thought he liked his books before, but in the last few weeks he has become absolutely obsessed. He will sit for an hour at a time and let me read all his books two or three times over. He gets excited about the same pictures each time, and talks more than any other time when we're reading.
He is just so smart. Every day we just can't believe how smart he is. He is an amazing problem solver, and doesn't let himself get distracted from something that he is working on getting or doing.
He is a joy to be around and all my primary kids adore him. He lets them hold him all through sharing time on Sunday and is just as content as can be.
He plays great with other babies too. We went to La Leche League last week and he was a little hesitant at first to join all the kids on the floor with the toys. But after about two minutes he was hauling across the room and was so excited about all his new friends.
He is 23 pounds now and I think he's about 29" long. I can tell he's really wanting to have his carseat turned to front facing, but we're keeping it rear facing until at least a year and we'll try to go as long as we can after that, but he's just too big!