10 Months

My baby girl is 10 months old today. I can't believe that she is almost a year old. I told Neil the other day that I thought that we should just celebrate her birthday in January, when it should be, there is no way that she is almost one! Her adjusted age is 6 months old and she is between there and 10 months for her milestones.

Sterling has taken a liking to here, wherever she is laying, he is right beside her. She was really watching him eat his treat.

She is a BUSY little girl. She never stops moving unless she is sound asleep. She rolls over to get where she needs to go, but she scoots a little too because I have laid her down facing one direction and gone back a minute later and she is facing a completely different direction.
She has 2 teeth poking through on the bottom and tries to put anything and everything she can get her hands on in her mouth. She likes the teething biscuits, yogurt melts, watermelon and grapes and the only baby food she doesn't like is chicken and noodles. She eats 3 meals a day, fruit and oatmeal in the morning, meat and veggie at lunch, then a fruit and rice after her afternoon nap.

"What is this thing?" Kynlie has started to notice everything that goes on around her and she had obviously never seen a pineapple before this picture! She watches between conversations, she really watches when people are eating, which makes me feel bad eating in front of her, she follows Sterling when he is walking by her and when we were camping last weekend, she was laying in the middle of the bed in the camper, watching the leaves blow outside the window. It is amazing watching her watch things because she was 24 hours away from possible blindness.

She is wearing 3-6 month clothes finally! At least she gets a lot of use out of all her clothes. We have to mix and match most outfits because she is so tiny on bottom that none of the pants that go with shirts will fit her. She has some 3-6 month tops that are getting too short for her, and the bottoms are 2x too wide for her! She is still in size 1 diapers and will be for a long time still, the tabs still overlap in the front when we put her diapers on.

She reaches for everything she gets in her sights, has the cutest giggle in the world and giggles at pretty much everything. She is very much a drama queen and can go from happy to sad in no time flat. She still has a pretty pathetic sad lip that I just can't help but laugh when she does it.

She gets cross eyed when she is tired, like she is in the picture above. She usually goes to bed at about 8:30, eats at 3, 6 and sleeps in til 8. Some days she will take a nap in her crib, some days I have to lay beside her in bed and nurse her to sleep, then sneak out of bed and hope I don't wake her up, some days she naps in my arms. I figure that as long as she will sleep in her bed at night, I will hold her during the day, she won't want me to hold her forever!

Today, she sat up by herself in the grass for a short bit. She could sit by herself if she wasn't so squirmy, she holds herself up with her hands but then has to try to grab something. She babbles all day long, sometimes super sweet words, sometime super sassy words.

I love this baby more than I ever thought was possible, I love to wake up to her sweet coos and smiles, to play and giggle with her during the day and to kiss her chubby cheeks when I lay her down at night.