10 months old…

Itty bitty is 10 months old.  Wow.  This is such a fun and crazy age.   She is starting mimic us and Daddy is loving her new little tricks he has taught her.  She loves to clap, give high fives, find your belly button (that can be awkward at times), find your tongue.  For the last week Dad is always proud to show off what new trick she has learned, it is so cute.

this poor little one has no chance of being a girly girl, she looks like such a bruiser in this picture

She is such a good little eater.  She will eat anything, especially if Daddy or I am eating it, she wants it.  

don’t worry, I didn’t really let her eat this cake, I just teased her with it, look at he look on her face :)

She is our little explorer.  Loves to open anything that isn’t locked, open any door that isn’t shut.  She is one curious cat and needs to be watched AT ALL TIMES. 

She is a talker, but  nothing that makes sense (with the exception of mama :) ).  It’s pretty cute except when she only wants to scream at the top of her lungs in your ear.  Not sure how to stop this habit yet as she does get a little crazy with it. 

She is a climber.  It is so cute to watch her little chubby legs try to hoist themselves up the side of the couch.  One of her favorite games is to climb from the couch to the ottoman to the chair and back again, she will do this, over, and over, and over, and over again.   It’s not so fun to watch her nose dive to the ground with no hesitation, we still need to keep a close eye on our little dare devil.

She is not really a walker.  She still easily pulls up on anything and walks with ease while holding on and is one of the fastest crawlers out there.  In the past month she has stood up on her own without assistance but if she needs to get from point A to point B she knows the fastest way to get there is crawling.

She is a good sleeper again, FINALLY.  We are back to sleeping through the night again which I am very grateful for :)

 

She is shy, it takes her a few minutes to warm up to anyone new, especially men.  Daddy has taught her already that boys are bad news :)

I could go on but that about sums up the things I don’t want to forget about this stage.  I can’t believe our little love bug is almost 1. 

Time for child locks

We have had “put on child locks” on our to do list for over 10 months.  Dave had the ambitious plan of getting this done right after Addie was born while he was off work.  Needless to say it didn’t get done.  We are finding ourselves in desperate need of gates or child locks or something.  This crazy lady is exploring everything she can get her sticky little fingers on. 

Have food, will climb

So we are pretty much officially done with baby food.  She LOVES to feed herself almost anything.  Her favorites always seem to be what you are eating.  I caught her in the act of trying to climb up Dave’s leg last week when he was trying to get to his meal. 

 

That girl is determined to have  a bite of whatever you are having.  She LOVES food. 

BabaBaba….MAMA

So maybe she was just moving her lips back and forth, maybe she was just trying to make some random noises, maybe it wasn’t directed exactly to me, maybe it was in a series of baba’s and some mmm sounds in there……..but it was heard by more than one person and more than once…MAMA.  Her first official word….melts my heart.

I heart weekends…..

I love weekends, LOVE weekends.  More so than ever before.  Weekends equal family time, as each weekend passes a few more things are left on the to do list, we tend to stay in our PJ’s for just 1 more hour.   I love our laid back weekends.   This past week I had 3 days where I got to see little Addie for less than an hour a day.  I thought the longer I was back at work the easier it would be to spend less time at home but I was wrong.  I am extremely appreciative of my job and I do believe if I was home I would want some type of outside job.  However when you find yourself on Friday’s having spent 45 hours at work at less than 6 waking hours with your child you feel unfulfilled.  Which is why I have a new appreciation for weekends. 

See, wouldn’t you miss this face too…..

9 months

Happy sweet birthday baby girl, nine months have come and gone so quickly.   I can’t believe in just 3 short months you will be 1, how crazy is that to even think. 

In the past month we have given you more to eat on your own and you love it.  I think we are are on our last couple days of baby food.  You absolutely love black beans and cheerios, you could eat them all day long if we let you.  You are also a fan of any type of cracker but ritz appear to be your favorite.  We have had to be super careful on whatever is left on the ground, because if you can pick it up it is going in your mouth regardless of what it is…kind of gross.

You have regressed with your sleep you went from sleeping through the night to waking up twice in the middle of the night to feed.  Daddy thinks you are going through a growth spurt, I don’t know what it is but is is EXHAUSTING.

You crawl everywhere, you still easily pull yourself up on anything or anyone very easily.  You have recently stood up on your own but only for few seconds.  You will walk easily while holding on but you don’t show any interest in trying to get out there on your own to take a few steps.   You are growing more independent and will crawl throughout the house without us guiding you. 

You have do have your own little language and you have started to say BA BA BA BA all the time, we are both anxious for a DA DA or MA MA but no sign of that yet.   You definitely appear to recognize more words and react to words more so than before. 

You love when we get out, you love to observe new people.  You are still a little shy to any new person but you quickly warm up to people as long as they are not too pushy. 

TEETH…6 of them now, 4 on top and 2 on the bottom.  You will randomly bite your daddy or me on our shoulders or sides.  It doesn’t happen often but when it does it HURTS. 

Everyday I look at you I can’t imagine a life without you.  You are such a joy and everyday I can’t believe we have been blessed with such a precious little girl. 

Long Day….

Today was one of those days….work felt like it lasted 36 hours, I was being pulled in every direction, the stress was mounting throughout the day and it couldn’t end soon enough.   It SUCKED.  Well, all of that melted away when the little giggle monster was home waiting for me.

Giggle Monster