Months 9 & 10

(These posts are way, way, way late. Yay for catching-up on blogging during naptime!!)

9 Months Old

Accomplishments: Addie started sleeping through the night and taking regular naps again. Yippee! She also became much better at pulling herself up to a standing position. She waved goodbye for the first time when Alex left for school one day and it was the cutest thing! Her  bottom two teeth finally came in and her smile is so cute.

Foods She Liked/Didn't Like: Same as last month. We got more adventurous at the end of this month and tried egg yolk and cheese, both of which she loved!

Discoveries: The swing! While we had to bundle up to go outside, Addie loved walking over to the park and being pushed on the swings. Also, moving boxes were THE things to play with. I quickly decided it was pointless to pack until about a week before we moved out of our apartment since she would take any chance she got to pull everything out of the boxes. 

Likes and Dislikes: Addie and Alex are the best of buddies. She is so happy whenever he gets home for the day and never wants to leave his side. It is rather cute :) Addie also loved going on walks (when the weather was actually warm), reading books, blowing raspberries, and grabbing Daddy's water bottle that had a straw and trying to drink from it. We got a jumperoo this month and at first she liked it, but then would get upset whenever I tried to put her in it. She definitely preferred playing on the floor and being able to move wherever she wanted to. 

Special Memories: When Addie was having a combination of a meltdown and laughing episode at dinner and Alex called her a nutty girl and then proceeded to do this weird thai-chi-hand-movement/breathing thing to calm her down (apparently the apple does not fall far from the nutty tree...), giving kisses and hugs, wide-mouthed smiles (see the pictures above), writing postcards to cousins and doing painted handprints on them, when she tried to eat her sock that she had pulled off at dinner, taking naps in my arms at Church. 

10 Months Old

Accomplishments: Learning to put herself back to sleep when she woke up early in the morning-a real treat for me! She also would let go of what she was holding onto and would free stand for a couple of seconds. 

Foods She Liked/Didn't Like: Addie loved bread and tortillas. She did not like pureed baby food as much and wanted to be more independent and eat finger foods whenever she could.  

Discoveries: She started paying more attention when we would read books and would point at the pictures and on rare occasions even kiss her books! She also realized that her catch-all bib could be manipulated so she would tilt it up and then open her mouth and pour all the food that was in it into her mouth! She also discovered that Mom is pretty fun to snuggle with :)

Likes and Dislikes: Addie LOVES Bathtime! We started bathing her every night before bed as she was getting a lot messier during the day with eating more solids. This girl is hands-down her happiest in the bath! She has these bath flutes/recorders that you fill up with water and then blow into to play music. She got it right away and would play these flutes during the full duration of her bath. It was HILARIOUS to watch (especially the faces she would make while playing them)! She also loved going to library time and watching other kids. She will light up whenever she sees other babies and is a little social butterfly. She did not like sitting on the grass!

Special Memories: The rare moments where she wouldn't squirm and sit still on my lap, when she peed on me both before and after a bath and then refused to let me clean her up and scurried all over the floor with her nakey bottom in the air, moving into our new apartment and painting it while trying to juggle naps and playtime, seeing other kids at the mall play place, watching her sleep.