Waving, and talking, and snapping, oh my!

No posts since Nov. 27th!  My goodness.  Sorry for slacking.  I've been finishing up my semester (done as of Friday!) and we are getting ready to leave for our holiday travels.  So it's been a busy time.  

Maddox turned 10 months old a week ago, and with that it seems like he's learned a ton of new tricks.

He loves waving "hi".  He'll wave to us whenever one of us enters the room.  And just in the last few days, whenever someone says "Hi Maddox" he'll wave.  So he is definitely associating the wave with the word hi, which is very neat.  We tried to get it on video, but the little guy, who is normally a ham in front of the camera, got shy.  We got a little wave, though.   

He's been saying "Mama", "Dada", "Na na" (no, or I don't like this, or I'm just not happy right now), "Ba ba" (water), and "Yeah yeah" for awhile now.  But!  Sometime last week, in the span of 24 hours, he said "Hi Dada" to Luke and "Na na Dada" when it was just me and Maddox in the bedroom.  We took translated that as "Dada isn't here".

Also, just in the last week, he's started snapping!  No joke!  He must have seen Luke or I do it, and he's started trying to do it.  He definitely has the finger movement down but isn't really making a snapping noise yet.  Even so, that's a pretty intricate finger movement, so we are pretty impressed with his skills. 

And, needless to say, he just keeps getting cuter and cuter with every passing day.

The pantless explorer

What happens to a baby's hair when you let him feed himself banana

Turns out banana is a great styling product!