10 months.

 

oh my... only two months until the big birthday.  when chatting with another mama earlier this week we were both in disbelief that we were pregnant this time last year and now have these growing girls instead.  this was the hardest monthly photo shoot ever.  L was trying to dive from one side to the other and her elephant was being flung about like crazy.  luckily everyone survived and we have this as the most decent in focus shot of the bunch.

at 10 months, L :

• is now wearing 18-24 month clothes.  her pants are too big for her but she needs that size for the length.  when will someone come out with baby tall clothes?!
• wakes up at 7 or 7:30a and goes to bed between 7-7:30p each day.
• is nursing twice a day - when she wakes up and before bed and eats three meals and two snacks.
• current nicknames : little baby, ladybug
• made the transition to crawling on all fours instead of army crawling.  she's quite speedy too.  thomas has yet to figure this out and will turn around and give her this look like, "where'd you come from?"
• licks thomas whenever she gets close enough to do so.  i've yet to figure out why she started this or why she continues to do it.
• has discovered a passion for cottage cheese, just like her big sister did at this age.
• will eat and eat and eat until i sign and also tell her that she's all done.  i also clap to make it seem like this is a happy thing so she won't cry.
• knows the sign for fish and loves walking by our aquarium and doing it.  she also likes to wave at them.
• continues to love swimming and will now fall into the water by herself on my count of three.  she's quite proud of herself for doing this too.
• loves playing with her big sister, especially a "game" they invented where L is under the dining room table and C goes from one side to the other and screams boo at the top of her lungs.
• when she's vocal her go to sounds are ba and ya.  she will only say mama when she believes she's in major distress and then it's mamamamamamamama.  she will say dada for her daddy on occasion.
• enjoys playing with all of the food in the play kitchen.  she seems to prefer the wood food where C prefers the felt.
• loves the ladybug pillow pet that she received for christmas and loves to tackle it.  this is hilarious as it's as big as she is.
• pulls herself up on the fireplace and sofa as well as one of her larger toys.  on anything else, she's happy just pulling herself up on her knees.

Comments

[lisa truesdell]

omgoodness, look at that sassy pants face. heee!!

[brandi]

wow. just wow. it's amazing she can do all that at 10 months. Only 7 more months for me before I can say that L does some of that. I'm scared. I want him to stay the way he is!!!

[Lil]

Oh my goodness. I love reading your monthly posts. Mine is 6 months...hard to believe she might be up to all of THAT in 4 short months. Your girls are darling. Thanks for sharing with us.