10 Months

Miss T is 10 months old and changing day by day...how can this girl get any cuter????

These pictures are getting harder and harder to take! :)

She weighed in at 16 pounds 4 ounces on her 10 month birthday!!!  She's still hanging out in the 3rd / 4th percentile and doing just fine!  I officially moved her up to size 3 diapers and they are a little big but she hasn't had any trouble with them at all!  She is wearing 6-9 month clothes and is able to get into most 9-12 month clothes too.  I have a feeling a lot of the dresses she's in now will work well as shirts next spring so I'm hanging onto them for now!

Her schedule hasn't changed much this month other than she seems to eat more and more each meal than the day before!  She nurses 4 times a day and takes a 5 oz bottle around 1:30.  She is completely on table food and loves it.  She shovels it in her mouth like nobody's business!  She started drinking a sippy cup of water with her meals too and does great with it.  I gave her her formula in it once and she didn't drink it nearly as well as from the bottle but I eventually got it down her.  We'll have to work on that over the next two months!  She has started biting me when she eats and that is not fun...and then she laughs.  Think she might be trouble???  I think we have it under control for now but we shall see!

As for her teeth she still just has the bottom two.  Four of her top teeth have been so close to popping through and it seems like any day they will but so far they haven't yet!!!

She's sleeping great and still taking two naps a day.  She usually naps around 9:30 and then 2:00...on Riley's school days I have to push her until 2:30 and work hard to keep her from falling asleep in the car but on non-school days she usually goes down a little before 2:00.  Each nap is usually an hour and a half.  She goes to bed between 7:00 and 7:30 and then she's up around 6:30 or 7:00.  Most mornings she usually wakes up and just hangs out in her crib for 15-20 minutes.  She's still sleeping in the guest room but we have plans to move her crib into the playroom until we move.  She still does great adapting to our sometimes crazy schedule and will sleep in her carseat, the stroller, or the ergo. I especially love when she sleeps in the ergo because I get to snuggle her up.

Tessa is all over the place.  We've had to adapt the house and change our habits because this girl is into everything!  She loves to play in the play kitchen, crawl all over the house, and pull up and walk with her toys.  She already knows where the playroom is and she make a beeline for it every chance she gets!  She's opening cabinets and drawers and of course putting anything and everything in her mouth.  When she is trying to move towards something that she shouldn't and I say "uh uh uh" she turns her head, looks at me, and repeats it back to me...and then she proceeds to go right for it.   She's going to be a stinker!

I think she will be walking before we know it but as for now she's really not pursuing it too much...probably because she's so fast with her crawling so she isn't too worried about other methods of moving!  When she's sitting and playing she is always in this stance where she get on one leg and acts like she wants to just push herself up and stand right up.  She doesn't have the balance to do it yet but she's not far from it!

This month has shown me how much Tessa loves babies and it has been so fun to watch!  She makes this distinct little sound when referring to her baby and she smiles and lights up and just grabs that baby, throws it over her shoulder, and gives it the sweetest pats on the back.  I just love watching her maternal instincts even at such a young age.  She loves ALL of Riley's babies so I think her big sister is going to hook her up for Christmas!

She is becoming more and more smitten with her sister every day and I just love seeing the two of them together.  Tessa is now giving hugs and kisses and every morning when Riley comes in my room she wants to lay her head on her big sissy and give her a hug.  We all love the hugs and kisses from this sweet girl!

It's so great to see Tessa finally really start to give affection back to Riley.  Riley has been head over heels in love with Tessa since before she was even born and she is such a good big sister.  But when Tessa was smaller she preferred me over her sister and Riley often got her feelings hurt.  Now things have changed and Tessa just LOVES Riley and wants to love on her first thing in the morning and is always tickled to see her and play with her and we couldn't be happier to see these girls in love with each other!

This month I left both girls with J for a little over 24 hours and went to the Women of Faith conference.  He was so excited to have the girls to himself and he did such a great job!  Of course Tessa had to go and get sick for the first time when I left her but thankfully Jason is such an awesome Daddy and he took great care of her.  She ended up with high fever and a trip to the ER but she just had an inner ear infection so once she got some meds she was back to herself.  

I just love my girls and my sweet family!

Here's the comparison pic for this month!