10 month old

Daniel has amazed us with his burgeoning motor skills on daily basis since he turned 10 month old. Terry had to tell him to slow down 'One trick at a time' he said. After months of having to rely on me to get him from place to place, Daniel now seems to have new tricks every day. My baby development recording can hardly keep the pace of his growing spurt.

Firstly he started to crawl on all fours scooting and scrambling across lounge and kitchen, then he started to crawl like a spiderman with one knee on floor and the other leg to propel him. The next day, he was chasing Terry with crawling style like a chimpanzee, one hand hold a DVD high and shouting at the same time, the other hand on floor and one knee on floor the other leg to propel. Now he can happily pull himself on a standing position in the cot or on the coffee table. He likes to practise walking with my hands under his arm to aid, sometimes he felt like running, good for him, not good for his old mummy as it's a back breaking activity for her.

One morning Daniel was sitting on his high chair after his breakfast playing the empty bowl, 'Dang,' 'Dang' he knocked the bowel twice with the spoon in his hand and tried to put the spoon in my mouth, I realised he was trying to feed me by copying my action of feeding him. Now he responded to the word like 'feed mummy', whenever I say so he would dip the spoon in the bowl then put it in my mouth. He started to give things to us to hold, he would hand a ball, a toy to us and now he even offered his dummy to me to suck. He seems to understand the concept of 'give' and 'take': Also now he understands the concept of take in turn when playing ball game with us. Whenever we say 'Danie's turn' he would push the ball.

He can speak perfectly the word of 'Mama' and 'DaDa', but I'm not sure if he truly understand what's it mean. he can say Daddy, but I have to remind him, he even said 'dirty' sometimes when I warn him not to touch something dirty...He babbles a lot and begins to respond to request and command like 'come here','come to get mummy'; 'give to mummy' ; 'open the door' etc. and he recognises lots words for common items in the house,like 'cupboard','shoes' ,'doors','windows' etc.