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Ten Months Old

My baby girl turned ten months old today... SIGH.

Can I have a new favourite? I love ten month old Briony. She makes me giggle and it just completely and utterly fascinating. I love how she's always trying to make a new friend, trying to make somebody laugh, trying to explore something new, trying out a new trick. I will admit that it was a heck of a lot easier to be a mommy to a baby who could only roll and scoot around a little bit - but it's pretty cool to see the world open up to her now that she can pretty efficiently get to wherever she wants to go. And I sense that it will only get crazier from here...

New Things This Month:
- Crawling! (first a pretty efficient military-style crawl but now full-fledged 'proper' crawling)
- Transitioning from sitting to crawling to sitting again
- Pulling up on furniture
- EATING BOOKS (argh)
- Waving, often but not always on command when we tell her to 'say goodbye'
- Getting awesome at getting dressed and undressed - she helps so much we sometimes wonder if she can do it by herself
- Bathtime in the Big Girl Bathtub - the transition did not phase her at all, and she *loves* to splash
- Loving food, and willing to try anything
- Getting used to some finger foods - Cheerios, banana, avacado, and MILD cheeses are her favourites at the moment
- Repeating and mimicking words and sounds
- Making up little dances when she's happy
- Bobbing her head up and down to let us know that she wants us to keep dancing
- Checking out people's teeth... WEIRD
- Lots of sticking out her tongue to be goofy
- SO MUCH babbling - to people she knows, to people she doesn't know, to pictures of people, to her stuffed animals, to her feet, to nothing at all...
- Staying with babysitters (Katie, Jessica, Kari-Ann, and my parents)
- Not responding particularly well to 'no' - especially when it involves eating books or exploring fireplaces
- Unpacking my suitcase for me almost every day we were in BC
- Being somewhat interested in animals for the first time - she was *so* excited and proud of herself when she was petting Tiger the cat
- Getting very interested in her 'touch and feel' books - and anything with pictures of babies
- Laughing hysterically when we show her animal sounds

Favourite Moments:
- Watching Marilyn play 'This Little Piggy' on her toes, and then watching Briony stick up her foot and point at it until Marilyn started again, over and over and over...
- Seeing how very proud of herself she is when she crawls over to something or pulls herself up

Looking Forward To:
Getting back into a fall routine...

Labels: Briony, Briony's First Year

posted by Lindsay @ 1:17 AM