10 Months

Tae's Obsessions

-Eating toilet paper/paper
-Taking all the clothes out of her drawers one by one and throwing them behind her shoulder, she think she is hilarious...and she kind of is.
-Playing peekaboo, but SHE is the one hiding, putting something over her face or her hands above her head. SOOOOO cute...my personal favorite.
-Open and closing doors while she can see me, then she can't, then she can, and so on...could entertain her for hours.
-Other babies/kids...she gets so excited she spazzzzes out. (especially her cousins- Max and Mase.)
-Drinking out of a cup by herself. She nearly hyperventilates she gets so happy.
-Splashing in the bath, and putting her head under the faucet over and over and over again. The girl is not a sissy when it comes to water.
-Pony tails, she screams grabs it and tries to eat it. Strange.
-Outside is her favorite. Although she only lasts about 5 minutes before the good old BOB puts her to sleep.

What I don't want to forget about this stage
- She plays with my eye lashes when she starts to get sleepy. It's the funniest thing. She becomes so incredibly focused, and will pinch and pinch until she gets a hold of them. That's when of course I move my face, and she will instantly pull my face back and try again. She's so weird I love it.

-As I said she loves eating paper. The best is when I try to get it out of her mouth and win, she grabs my hands with total aggression and bites my fingers to let out her frustration. hahahahaha I die, it's so funny!

Eating
-Breastfeeds 4 times a day.
-Eats real food 3 times a day.
-Her favs: breakfast-oatmeal and peaches or millet, lunch- cottage cheese, pears, or a green smoothie, dinner- FISH or spaghetti, snack- Graham crackers or bread!
-She is a big breakfast eater, she will eat the same size bowl or oatmeal or millet as me.
-She is not picky at all, she will still eat almost anything.
-I'm beginning to let her explore with foods and try to feeds herself. HA! Wish us luck, it's a disaster.

*Can I just say because I can how much I am in love with breastfeeding. I know the year mark is coming up and I'm having some serious sadness with the thoughts of stopping. So don't judge me if I'm still breastfeeding her when she is three. :) You know I'm kidding...kind of.

Sleeping
-Typically sleeps from 8:30-8:30.
-Naps twice a day, early nap 11-1, late nap 3-4.
-She sleeps best in her car seat. In fact, sometimes if I really need her to take a good nap, I'll lay her in her car seat and she is out! If she wakes up I put the cover down, binky in, bounce her a bit, and she is back asleep. Lovely isn't it.
-Ryan looooves to sleep with her, so pretty much every time I come home from night shift she is in bed with him. I tell him to stop, but secretly I don't want him to cause it's just the sweetest thing.
-Still falls asleep playing with my hair.
-She is such a snuggler. So we take full advantage of it.

*She hasn't been sleeping through the night for the past little while, waking up several times for her binky. I'm not really a "let them cry it out" mom, so I just kept waking up to give her the binky, and she would go right back to sleep. But after a while of this, I thought this isn't just a phase it's got to be more than that. So a couple weeks ago I started to give her a bottle at night after I breastfed, and waallaaa she hasn't woken up since. Why it took me so long, well I hate to see my freezer supply dwindle away, because HATES formula. She obviously wasn't happy with my supply by the end of the day. I guess my baby and I getting a good nights rest is worth it. Derrdrrdrr!

@10 months (for our record)
-Starting to stand alone for a second...then wusses out and plops back down.
-Cruises up stairs.
-Says "uh-oh", and oh my is it cute!
-Walks along furniture and with her walker like a champ.
-Still no teeth! But eats like she has 5.
-Says "mama" and "dada" I think discriminately.
-Says "Bo" my parents dog.
-Is the patty cake queen. Every morning I sit her on my lap after I nurse to chat for a bit, and all she wants to do is patty cake, patty cake, patty cake.
-Will give fives.
-Gives you anything if you say "can I have it."
-Understand the word "no" but doesn't feel like obeying quite yet.
-Is getting such a personality- she is going to be a jokester like her daddy, and feisty like her mommy.

We are so in love. I already want another so bad, but am also wanting to enjoy the heck out of just HER. hmmmm...we will see! Bye bye for now.