10 months and growing!

i know that it's been a few days since cole turned 10 months, but i finally got around to getting his photos taken- i got ONE that i'm happy enough to print up (when we get more ink). i also have a site bookmarked in my favorites where i can enter his weight and length and it will calculate his percentiles for me so i don't have to try to get it on the printed chart that we have from dr h back home. he currently weighs 20 1/2 lbs (40th percentile) and is 28 12 inches tall (43rd percentile). i remember, it wasn't that long ago when it was the complete opposite... his weight percentile was in the high 70's and his length was between 40 and 45. this is partly why it's hard to get a decent photo- this is the face he makes when we take him outside. he'll do this the whole time we are at the pool- literally. he does this instead of squinting... just narrows his eyes a bit and makes this face!
this is the one i plan to print off. there was another one in this spot where he had a really goofy grin (what a cheese) but it turned out too blurry, i don't think i can fix it enough. oh, this is one of the times when i wish i had an slr instead of a point-and-shoot... i still have to get my photo software and then i can crop and play with this one.
i decided to take some inside the pool area because i thought the black iron fence would make a good backdrop... but he was done cooperating, and once again, it was either flash (too-dark background) or no flash (background and cole visible but blurry).

and, since nate was at the pool, we had to hang out for awhile! good ol' nate- cole FINALLY smiled at him! nate's been trying to get a smile out of him for quite a while now and yesterday, cole just couldn't hold out anymore.

this is what happens at the end of a photo session-meltdown! he was tired, hot, hungry... after 4 pm, all bets are off on whether or not he'll be cooperative.

today we got to sit all the way through meeting! wow- and we have a pretty long meeting, usually an hour and half at the shortest. he did SO good! a few little screeches here and there, but nothing a handful of sweet potato puffs couldn't fix. after meeting, our elder, paul, thanked all the kids for being so well-behaved. we have 16 kids under the age of 16, and 5 of those (including cole) are 6 or younger. they all are very well-behaved- cole is pretty much the only one who ever takes a trip to the bedroom... understandably. so, that was a big thing for us, to sit for almost 2 hours without having to leave! go, cole!