10 Months

Carly is 10 months old today. Her daddy and I are having a hard time accepting that she has entered the world of double digits, and she is only 2 months away from her first birthday! (OH MY!!)

At the moment Carly is really enjoying playing. She will cuddle with her stuffed animals and dolls, along with her plastic truck and train. She really likes to look at/read board books. Her favorite books right now are Love (in the Ruby and Baby Max series) and Where Is Baby's Belly Button?.

Today Dave took apart Carly's exersaucer to make it into a stand up play table. She cruised around it checking out all of the toys and looking at it from a whole new angle. She also took many, many steps today. Prior to today we had to prompt her to take steps. Dave or I would stand her out in front of us, drop our hands, and hope she walked towards us. Today she was standing in front of me, I picked up her doll and put it in her hand, in hopes that she would stand holding the doll and allow me to stand up straight for a few moments. She did grab for her doll, then began to walk. I'm sure to an outsider it would have been quite comical, as she was walking I was trying to silently get Dave's attention in hopes of not distracting her. She did this for a few more times, before we really set her up. Dave sat down, helped her stand up and get her baby doll cradled in her arms and then pointed her in my direction. I was about an arms length away when she started walking towards me. Being the "challenging" mom that I am, I continued to move backwards as she stepped towards me. After many steps she caught on to what I was doing and showed her frustration with me.

Carly is becoming more and more of a daddy's girl. She wakes up from her naps calling for Dave, loves to play peek a boo and hide and go seek with him. She doesn't complain when I am around, and still only wants me to put her down for bed, but she does really love playing with Dave when he is home.

At 10 months Carly is eating:
~ apples
~ avocado
~ banana
~ barley
~ biscuits
~ blueberries
~ broccoli
~ butternut squash
~ carrots
~ cantaloupe
~ cauliflower
~ Cheerios
~ cheese (cheddar & American)
~ green beans (Gerber only, and mixed with rice)
~ macaroni and cheese
~ nectarines
~ oatmeal
~ pancakes
~ pasta
~ peas (Gerber only)
~ peaches
~ pears
~ rice cereal
~ turkey
~ waffles
~ whole wheat cereal
~ yellow squash
~ yogurt (mixed with various fruits)
~ zucchini

We have really made a point in the past few weeks to begin adding more table food to her diet. Our only dilemma is that she still doesn't have any teeth. We can only feed her foods that can easily be smashed between our fingers (to mimic the power she has with gumming her food).

She is still wearing a variety of clothing sizes. She sleeps in onesies that range from 3-6 months to 6 months. Her day to day clothes are 9 months or 6-12 months. Within the past week she has outgrown many of her 6-9 month outfits, but not all of them. It really surprises me that at 10 months she is still wearing such a small size. During our first ultrasound at 8 weeks she measured a week or 2 large. She continued to measure large until around 36 weeks. Her growth then seemed to slow down and I delivered a 7lb 14oz bundle of joy at 39 weeks. Now she is consistently measuring in the 50th percentile for weight; however, her mobility is causing her become leaner and leaner. Maybe she will have grown into her 12 month clothes by her first birthday!