This kid is growing. It’s not like we didn’t expect it to happen. Babies grow. Puppies grow. Kids grow. It’s just that when you think about ten months, it seems so long. But it really isn’t.
Just like three years haven’t been that long, ten years married hasn’t been that long, 15 and 20 years out of high school haven’t been that long. You get the point.
This kid though (or “doe” for you modern readers)…she’s delightful.
In month seven, she was all about waving.
Month eight was all about pushing through the bottom two teeth (that had been coming through since six months). She also started getting a little more mobile.
She likes standing up in her walker and sitting up on the floor. She also started to really work on her pincer grasp with objects in her walker tray.
She also likes taking things out of baskets. She’s not so great putting them back though.
Month nine was all about scooting around (not crawling), turning pages in books, scooting backwards on her belly, and playing with Ruby.
Her nine month baby stats were:
Weight: 18.49lbs….54 percentile
Length: 28inches…61 percentile
She has a trend of gaining weight and going down in length or gaining length and going down in weight. She’s completely normal.
Still not crawling, but has many, many, many opportunities during the day on her stomach. She would rather sit up on her bottom and scoot around that way.
Month ten has brought on more scooting around on her bottom, getting in sticky situations, standing up and trying to pull up on objects.
She gets very excited and tickled at herself when she stands up.
She’s trying more and more to pull up and can stay longer and longer standing than she had previously.
She’s a pretty good clapper too. I haven’t gotten a good picture of it, or if I have, I can’t locate right now. Her favorite activity is trying to touch Ruby’s things, pulling Ruby’s hair and eating Cheerios. Those three things keep her pretty busy during the day. She usually hates wearing hats and bows. (totally opposite than first kid.)I usually have to tie her hat on her, or it doesn’t stay on for very long. She will wear little rubber bands to hold her hair back. If I’m super-fast and can distract her, I can attach a bow to the rubber banded hair. She only has two teeth on the bottom. She got those pretty quickly at 6 months, but nothing since then. She’s been working on the top two teeth for a good while now. They are almost ready to pop through. She can consistently wave “bye bye” and “hey” to people. There are times when she is eating that she will sign “all done”, but keep eating. J She loves pointing out Wooster’s deer head in the living room, the towel hanger with fish in the bathroom and trying to grab the walkie talkie. When she gets mad, she swipes her left hand back and forth trying to cause destruction to anything she can touch. She is working on pointing to her eye, nose and mouth. 90% of the time she can find the person holding her attributes when questioned. She’s a great sleeper. If out and about, she’ll nap in her carrier or car seat. She takes one big nap from 1pm-4pm in the afternoon. She is sleeping a solid 11 to 12 hours at night. When mad, hurt, and sad, she only cries for a very small amount of time. She is easily calmed. Clara has recently started having stranger anxiety (totally normal and developmental). At church, regular people stop by to talk to us during the greeting period. She will quietly tuck her head on mama or papa’s shoulders or shut her eyes.
She is a very delightful baby and is growing more and more each day.
The picture with her feet sticking out made me smile! Love all of them!!!!