Friday, November 6th, day 304, 10 months old

For halloween this year, Luca was a shark! We went to a disco party to celebrate our friend Bea's 40th birthday. Here's Luca with Bea. Notice he's actually making his "shark face" which involves scrunching up his nose, showing his teeth, and breathing fiercely though his nose!

Fab really needs a haircut!

A few people suggested that I keep my natural hair colour!

This is at a halloween playgroup where Luca really enjoyed this walking toy! He even stood for a few seconds not holding anything when another baby took the toy away from him! He hasn't done that again since to my knowledge.

All the kids in their costumes. It was pretty noisy with the Mom's trying to get their kids to look at them! Luca just played with his drum!

He had just woken up from a nap and was still a little groggy! He also wasn't too impressed by the noise level I think! I like this picture cause you can see his fin too!

Be scared. He bites!

Luca found my stash of old toothbrushes and wanted to use them all at once!

He prefers my water bottle now to any other bottle. It has a straw that he can suck on.

Yesterday, Luca was vaccinated for H1N1. He was very strong about it. He didn't seem to have any side effects yesterday. Today, he has a lot of teething pain, a very stuffed up nose and quite rosy cheeks. I kept him home from the day care because he's not usually this sick, even with the colds he brings home from the daycare. It'll be 10-14 days before the vaccine takes effect. Fab and I can be vaccinated (if we choose) in December.

Luca is getting better and better and walking and standing every day. He doesn't let go when he stands that often and I don't think it's a conscious decision when he does. His personality is starting to show through more and more as well. He has such a sense of humour! We have so much fun together. He eats tons and anything (except fruit). Preferably meat. He's sleeping through the night from about 7:30 to 6am. He never complains about going to the daycare, or anything for that matter! He's a wonderful child. I'm so lucky.

I'm frantically trying to get back into shape for my Nutcracker contract which starts in 10 days. We'll see what happens!