10 Months Old!

Katherine, you are 10 months old and a very busy little girl. You are always exploring, playing and getting into everything. It's a fun yet exhausting stage.

You are wearing 6-9 month and 9 month clothes and a size 3 diaper. You hardly ever wear shoes, but I've put them on you a couple of times this month, since you're cruising more and more and you're between a size 3 and 4 shoe.You had a nine month check up a couple of weeks ago and you weighed 18lbs 4oz and were 27 inches long.

You go down easily for naps and bed. We'll read a book, turn your music on, and give you your pacis and put you in your bed. Rarely, you'll fuss, but most of the time you go right to sleep. You take a morning and afternoon nap, but one of those (usually the morning nap) is short (45 minutes) because of our schedule. If we catered our life around your two naps, we'd never get to leave! You can handle that short nap in the morning and most of the time you'll get a long (90min-2hour) afternoon nap.

You learned to clap this month, and you clap, flail your arms and pant when you're really excited. It's adorable.

You still say dada ALL the time. Still no mama. I'm not bitter or anything, but whenever I ask you to say mama, you laugh at me and say dada. Speaking of him, you LOVE him. You'd prefer him over me all the time (unless you're hurt). He's your favorite person, and watching you and his relationship melts me. Whenever I get you out of bed and carry you into the kitchen, you always look around and say dada. And you speed crawl straight to him whenever he comes in the door. If I'm holding you, and you see Daddy, you'll lunge for him. If I try and take you out of his arms, you shake your head at me and latch on tighter to him.

You still only have two teeth, but those top two will be in any day. You chew on everything.

You're an ornery little girl. Your favorite things in our house are the dishwasher, bathtub faucet, toilet paper rolls, trash cans, and any drawers within your reach that you can pull things out. It's a constant job redirecting you from things you shouldn't be getting into and cleaning up the messes you make. Whew! You tire us all out. The kids are good at helping me entertain you and keep you out of messes, so I'm a little worried about handling it all when they're in school.

Aside from all the "toys" you find around the house that we're constantly taking away from you, you do seem to like the toy car that you can climb around in. You also like rattles and anything you can shake and you like to knock over block towers.

You drink four 6oz bottles a day- wake up, after morning nap, after afternoon nap, and bedtime. Meal times with you have been a bit of a struggle. You don't like to eat baby food. Iconsider it a victory if you eat half of a container before you start shaking your head and batting the spoon away. I've about given up on purees for you, and try and give you finger food that you can feed yourself. Your favorite foods are graham crackers, bananas, grapes, and ritz crackers. You'll usually eat bananas, cheerios and waffles for breakfast and then for lunch and dinner I just try and give you some of whatever we're eating and supplement with graham crackers, ha!

You've been crawling like a pro. You have different speeds and can turn into turbo speed whenever you're after something. You're also pulling up on everything and starting to cruise around furniture. You can also stand on  your knees. You are active and never stop moving!

Katherine, you're turning into more and more into a toddler with every passing day, and it's the most bittersweet feeling. We love you so much and are trying to savor everyday with you Sweet Girl!