10 Months!

I know, it’s crazy, Maisy is 10 months old already!  Better get started on planning her FIRST Birthday bash!  Here is what she’s up to these days:

• Her sleep schedule is still the same, sleeping from about 7:30pm to about 6:30am with 2 naps throughout the day.
• She has 6 ounces of formula 4 times a day now.  She doesn’t take a bottle at Vicki’s anymore so she gets her formula from her sippy cup twice there and then a morning and evening bottle with me.  This month we’re going to start mixing milk in with her formula…oh I can’t WAIT to get her off of the formula.
• Still no teeth! But it doesn’t hold her back from eating one bit.  She doesn’t care much for the jar baby food anymore, she’d rather just have pieces of whatever we’re eating.  She loves to feed herself any finger foods or snacks she can.  Her favorite food right now is club crackers and graham crackers!
• She is still wearing 6-9 month clothes and size 3 diapers.  I’m not sure what size shoe…you know I love my barefoot babies!
• She got her first bloody nose this month AND her first black mark under her eye.  The nose was her own fault (climbing OVER big brother’s chair and landing flat on her nose) and the black eye courtesy of her big brother swinging his robot around and slamming into her face.  This girl is going to be tough, I’m telling you! 
• Vicki says all the time that she has never seen a baby pick on their sibling the way she does.   She is definitely an instigator and knows how to get her brother fired up…and that works both ways!  When she is minding her own business Ryder heads straight over there to pick on her.  Through all the picking, you can really see the bond between them…sometimes they will stop wrestling around and just lay on eachother, or they will both start cracking up together.  I’m glad they have each other.
• She’s still all over the place.  She loves to be picked up, but as soon as you put her down she is off, and she is FAST!  She has been standing for longer periods of time without falling but still doesn’t quite have the balance to take her first steps.  I don’t think they’re far off though! 
• She gets told NO a lot now and she can even mimic our “ah ah ah” sound when she’s about to do something she shouldn’t.  She definitely keeps us laughing.
• My last point will speak for itself in the pictures to follow, she is 100% Daddy’s Girl these days!

 

 

We love this beautiful baby so much.  She’s growing up so fast but each phase is just another chance to thank God for what she brings to our lives.