10 Months

Seriously, unbelievable...10 months!

Miss Emma is very much her own little person now and is very different from her big sissy in a lot of ways. Emma has taught us (we are very slow learners) that every child is different and comparing is dangerous. Not until a week or so ago did we realize to do everything completely opposite of what we did with Lily, and it will work with Emma. Way to change things up little miss.

Here's what we are learning about Miss Emma:

*Does NOT like baby food. Give her appropriate table food or anything Lily has and it's golden. I have been steaming a lot of her food in bite size pieces like squash, zucchini, carrots, apples, pears, and sweet potatoes. She also loves mac-n-cheese, chicken nuggets, spaghetti, noodles and sauce, Gerber's meat sticks (yuk), ravioli, peas, green beans, peaches, blueberries, yogurt, Cheerios and Kix, crackers, cheese, cream cheese toast, Gerber's snacks of any kind and lots of water and a little diluted apple juice!

*She has still been waking up at night (well around 4am). Ugh. I know. We don't like to sleep train but we did do a little with Lily. We try to do what's best for our girls and every stage seems to pass in their own time. This stage just seems to be taking a little time until recently. I started at nap time and she's been sleeping for 2 hrs after putting herself to sleep. At night, it still depends on the day she had but we are really trying to be patient and **knock on wood** she slept through last night :)

*We now consider Miss Emma a walker. She still continues to crawl places but only if she can't possibly wait and take the slow pace of her walking. She carries things, can squat down to pick things up over and over, climb up onto chairs and Lily's toddler bed, the bathroom step stool and has started trying to climb up the wooden gate!

*Recently I have had to extend the height on the back of her car seat to move up the shoulder straps. I guess she has gone through another growth spurt!

*In the video above, she is wearing a 6-9 mth top, a 12 mth onsie and 18 mth pants with the waist rolled! She is also wearing size 3 Stride Rite shoes and needs to go get her very first pair of walkin' shoes.

*Continues to love the bath. Takes one by herself mostly now since she and Lily are in completely different playing stages. She loves to splash!

*She loves the park, going down the slide, bubbles, our backyard swing, poking and petting Maci, playing peek-a-boo, clapping, waving hi, looking for Sissy and gets very excited when Daddy comes home.

*LOVES books and has started to point to things in books like kitty cats, dogs, items in Goodnight Moon, and people in pictures like Mommy, Daddy, Lily, Nana, Pa, and Maci.

We are very much in love with you little girl, Happy 10 Months!