10 months

Hi precious girl,

Well you have reached 10 months old now and my how you have changed. You have become a professional crawler and pull yourself up on everything. You love to walk along items no matter where you are. We have a feeling you will be walking by yourself really soon. You love to explore the house...whenever you hear a sound in another room you crawl to see what it is. You LOVE music and dance whenever it comes on(just like Mamma). You are very independent when it comes to eating food. You want whatever anyone is eating and pretty much refuse any baby food at this point. You are starting to eat almost everything now. I will let you try new foods to see if you can chew them up well. Daddy on the otherhand, leaves that to me...he is afraid you will choke on everything. You have learned some new words such as: atha...(which means sasha) Papa, and unfortunately the word No...this leads me to my next topic...your temper...and boy do you have one. If something is taken away from you, you will yell. If someone tries to kiss you and you dont want them to, you will say no and swing your hand to hit...We are working very hard to nip that in the bud. You hear alot of "dont hit, that hurts, and use nice hands" We know you understand because once we say that..you become more gentle. If you are playing with something that you shouldnt have, once you make eye contact with Daddy or I and we come to get it...you throw it and crawl away. You try to be so sneaky, its actually really funny!

We have been spending alot of time in the pool, which of course you love! We try not to let you go underwater because we dont want you to get any ear infections. However, your papa doesnt listen to us when we ask him not to let you go under. I do have to say though, he taught you how to hold your breath underwater. He also, has you moving your arms and kicking too. We have a feeling you may be swimming by the end of summer, but we will see. It all depends on how brave mommy is with you in the water. You got sick over this previous month, but we couldnt figure out what it was. You had a high fever and didnt want to eat. You werent sleeping well and wanted me to hold you all the time. Which I have to say, I loved the cuddle time with you. Turns out a few days later you had your two fang teeth come in at the same time. We are guessing it was all due to you teething. Your grandma bought you sophie the giraffe, which has become a good friend of yours. This giraffe is a special teething toy and you like to chew on her legs. You also got a cute little mushroom shaped teether that you like as well.

We spent a couple days watching your baby cousin Madison while Aunt Jess and Uncle DJ went to work. Madison was laying on a playmat at nanas house and you wanted to do it too. You crawled over and layed down next to her on the mat for a while and played with the toys hanging over head...it was to cute! I have no doubt you two will be very close! We also took another trip up to Jacksonville, but this time daddy went with us. We went to Kristen and Brocks wedding (which is aunt Kellys sister) and you fell asleep during the ceremony. Afterwards we went to the reception and Mommy and Daddy had a very hard time leaving you with the sitter there. You were right in the other room and you had Dillon and Elyse in there to play with, but we just couldnt leave you in there long. We had a great weekend with Your Auntie Sko, Aunt Kelly and Uncle Aaron...And of course with Dillon and Elyse. You did very well on the car ride as usual. We are so thankful you love to go bye bye in the car.

Buggie, It is so hard to believe that you are going to be a year old in 2 more months. Each hour of each day is going by so fast, but in the time..you manage to fill my heart with more and more love for you! Sometimes you will just stop and look at me with such a sweet I love you expression, and I just get so choked up. You are my world little girl! I love you sooo very much!

xoxo

Mommy