Our Little Monkey is 10 Months Old!

It's that time of the month again!

(Our baby girl is 10 months old today!!!)

This is definitely one of my favorite ages! The last two months have been trying, but now we are having so much fun with Avery. She definitely has both her dad and mom in her. She is very stubborn like both of us, she's a daredevil like her dad and is fiesty like her mom!

Here are some facts about our Midge:

* She is STILL nursing! THREE.TIMES.A.Day! We tried formula, to no avail. We fought and fought, cried, screamed and pulled our hair out. SO, we are going to try and stick to nursing until we can introduce whole milk. Please cross your fingers for us. I need it!

* Avery LOVES Stage 3 foods. She usually eats rice and yogurt in the morning, a fruit or veggie in the afternoon, an ENTIRE banana & 3 strawberries for a snack (or with one of the meals) and an entire jar of a dinner entree, some fruit and she still picks off our plate. This girl can eat. But she is so active, she never gains any weight. How would that be?

* She usually goes to bed at 7:30 and wakes between 7:20-8:20 the next morning. It is devine!

* We now let her sleep with her beloved baby. She will wake up and talk to her until we come and get her. (The other morning, she woke up at 3:30 AM and was telling stories to her baby. I went into her room and she was sitting straight up, hugging her baby and jibber jabbering!)

* She loves bathtime so much, we usually let her take two a day. She sits without any assistance and even tries to blow bubbles in the water, which usually ends with her choking on the water. She has no fear!

 

* Avery cannot go anywhere without her baby! I was taking her out of her carseat last week and dropped baby. (We don't have a proper name for her yet.) She was covered in dirty slush, so I put her back into the car. Ave freaked and wanted to hold her baby and even went as far as wanting her buckled next to her in the shopping cart. Sigh...such a drama queen! Melts my little heart though!

* We have had two Little Gym classes so far and are always on the lookout for more Mommy & Me classes!

* Avery has TWO teeth now! And they are big! They are the bottom middle. She is so dang cute with them. (And she has only bit me a few times...ahem...you know where!)

* Avery now stands for ten seconds unassisted. This morning she was waiving bye bye to daddy all while standing on her own. It...Was...Awesome!

* She still prefers crawling to walking. Which is just fine by me.

* Stairs are her favorite. Too bad we don't have any for her to climb. (Our Logan house is one level & our SLC house has too steep and narrow of stairs for her to climb.) Soooo.....thank you Sean and Erika for lending your stairs to us!

* Avery now says Up (again), Dad, Mom, Bubba (which is Monte's nickname) and Ow. She tries to repeat two syllable words in her own baby language.

* She also likes to try and feed herself. I let her take the spoon and she puts it right in her mouth. BUT, afterwards she likes to splatter whats left on me, the tray or the floor.

* She loves Loves LOVES to give kisses! (Which we LOVE even more!) She wants to give you one right when she wakes up, when you get home, when she goes night night and through out the day. We read Good Morning Good Night every night before bed. She first pets the animals, then gives each one a kiss. We have it recorded on our phone, so I'll have to upload it. It is adorable.

I could go on and on about our munchkin. She is blossoming into a very fun loving and independent girl. Have I mentioned I love this age? Happy 10 Month Baby Girl!

(****UGH! My pictures are all blurry! How do you fix this?)