Katie: 10 Months

Somehow 10 months have come and gone with Katie. It doesn't seem possible that we are two months away from turning one!

What a fun month this was for us watching Katie learn and grow in more ways than I want to admit. Just a few weeks ago she was barely army crawling, now we can't stop her from crawling (on her hands and knees to boot) all around the house. She can go from sitting to her tummy and from her tummy up to sit. And she really wants to pull up to stand. She can get herself pulled up to her knees, but hasn't quite made it to her feet yet. But the way crawling went, I'm sure tomorrow she will have it figured out ha!

She loves it when you help her stand up and talk about how big she is while she's standing there. She thinks its hilarious and will just giggle away. 

Katie is also starting to wave at people and loves when you wave back at her. 

In addition to her huge gross motor gains this month, she's also loved chatting it up. She's got a pretty consistent "mama", and I swear sometimes she is even using it in association with me. "Babababa" is another favorite phrase, including "ahhhh" with varying pitch and intonation. She does throw in a "dada" here and there, and I've just recently heard her throwing some final consonant sounds in there, especially "ack". 

This month Katie celebrated her first St. Patrick's Day, and was definitely too cute to be pinched, even if she wouldn't have been wearing green.

She also attended her first wedding reception of our friends Nick and Monyca Matson.

Katie had her first sickness this month- an ear infection. It started last week on Monday afternoon when Amanda said she felt warm and wasn't acting her normal happy self. Monday night she was running a fever, and on Tuesday the poor girl was toast. She was droopy, feverish, whiny, and hardly eating. The rest of the week was much of the same. Fevers in the morning and evenings, and not quite herself during the day. I took her to quick care on Wednesday and they said that she had fluid on her ears, but it wasn't an ear infection at that point. Friday evening Eric took her back to get them checked again and by this point her right ear was infected. She started medicine that evening. When I got her up on Saturday morning it was like my happy girl was back. Her right eye is still a little swollen, but she is acting pretty much herself again. 

Favorites for Katie this month include taking her socks off when she is in the carseat, her brother and sister, her momma, chewing on everything, eating (especially carrots) and crawling to wherever you are. Her current favorite place to crawl is to the top of the stairs. She literally will be sitting on the floor in the living room and then crawl right over to the top of the stairs and just look down them. She also loves playing with non-toy items, like the wipes container or a remote, and looking out the sliding glass window.

She doesn't like missing out on the action, and she really has not loved the changing table this month. I really think she associates it with having to go to bed, and she will just whine and sometimes even cry when you put her up there. She still sleeps like a champ, but that FOMO is real for her. 

Katie is wearing 9 month clothes and size 3 diapers. She is weighing 17.6 pounds and measures about 27.5 inches long. 

She is currently drinking five 7 ounce bottles a day (except for this last week when we were lucky to get 20 or 25 ounces a day drank), and is awake 2.5-3 hours between naps. I do think she could probably stay up longer between naps so we will be extending those soon.

We can't wait to see what's in store in the next months to come for our happy girl!