Lasa @ 10 Months

The beautiful babe turned 10 months old today. Wow!  So big.

Ten month tid-bits include..

• She has started {trying} to dance when she hears music.  Sort of leans and jerks ever so slightly, like she feels like dancing but doesn't quite understand why. :}
• She has favorite books - Noah's Ark (which has been chewed so badly I have had to take it away), and Number Puppies and Look Look, both of which she squeals and giggles for every page.  Delightful!
• She continues to have the cutest smile ... made even cuter when she jut her chin out and scrunches up her nose.
• My favorite thing she does is that open-mouthed panting sound she does when she is happy and excited. I eat it up!
• She got her first ride-on toy this month.  It's/She's the cutest!

 

• She loves when I trace her face with my fingers.  Usually in quiet moments of the day.
• After naps and in the mornings, she will play in her crib contentedly for up to 45 minutes! So nice.
• She cut three more teeth on top, so now she has four on top and four on bottom.  With them, she has taken to gritting.  Yikes.  She also like to nibble bite on us or our shirts now.  On occasion she's taken a painful bite out of our legs and there've been some hootin' and hollerin' about that.
• We tried coconut oil on eczema patches on her face and it worked like magic.
• She does this entirely adorable shoulder wiggle when people are talking to her.  It's like a flirty shrug.  It's a crowd pleaser.  So quirky!
• She stands up to play more than not now.  Getting so sturdy on her feet.  She has even let go entirely on occasion and independently stands for a few seconds before going down. 

• Speaking of standing, she tends to want to eat standing up half the time now, too.  She lets me hold her to finish the first half of the bottle.  Then she is stop and go, choosing to eat like a gerbil from a feeder. 

 

• Which is why it is a good sign that she learned to drink from a sippy cup this month. One step closer to the milk days after 12 mos.  Exciting! Toddlerhood is a'calling!
• She cries like she's dying or heartbroken that you would leave her when we put her down for nap and then she is sound asleep within minutes. Napping 1-2 times a day still.
• She finished up about 20 days of antibiotic this week from another ear infection that just. would. not. die!
• She was delighted when I took her out to stand in the rain.  She has the makin's to be one of us for sure with our rain-loving ways.
• She figured out how to open cabinets this week, sooooo we have more baby-proofing to do. 
• She continues to be entirely magnetic out in public.  No one can walk by her without greeting her and/or playing with her.  That grin and twinkle in her eye is irresistible!
• She reaches table tops now when she stands, so that is another degree of child-proofing we must catch up on. 
• She has learned how to shake her head side to side.  Not sure if she knows that it means NO yet... 
• She met her momma's momma and her momma's little sister this month.  So her grandmother and aunt.  She was not herself at this visit with those three, but she didn't scream and cry, so that's something.

• She is a smidge over 20 lbs and wearing 12 months clothes. Has moved into size 4 diapers.
• She is willing to eat Stage 3 foods a bit now and really enjoys it when we give her soft bits of food from our plates. 
• Her favorite toys to carry around are a play food pretzel, a play food bagel, and her favorite toy to chew these days is a really realistic looking rubber snake.  She chews it head first into her mouth.  It's kinda creepy.

• She has two foods she enjoys eating with Josh - a popsicle and a banana.  If he is eating a popsicle and doesn't give her licks right away, there is MUCH screaming and fuss.  It's adorable! Reminds me of Josh's routine with Anna as a baby - she always had dibs on his yogurt.
• She's met her first swim session in a baby pool and the hot tub (when it is cooler).  She approves. :)

 

• We also finally baby-proofed the back porch, so she has ventured into her new play space out there and ADORES it.  Before this, she would stand at the back door and wail when Noah and Anna went out without her.

• She's begun to try a new sound - Mamamamamamamama.  Usually when she's crying, but once or twice when she was happy. 

I cannot believe how attached to you we are, Lasa!  It's become quite normal to hear shouted from any end of the house at any given moment, "Oh my gosh, I just LOVE this BABY!!" 

We can't get enough of you and, truth-be-told, are asking the Lord if you can stay at this point ... however complicated the situation might get.  We've covered enough ground like that as it is.  What's a little more?  We love you, LasaLove, and will trust all your days to the Lord either way and will thank Him for all the ones we get to share with you in the meantime!!

Happy 10th Month, BabyDoll!