Madeline at 10 Months

Sweet Madeline – You are now 10 months old! At 10 months you:

• Are close to eating all table food (as the doctor suggested should happen around 9 months), but not quite there. We're working on it! Our schedule was a little upside-down this past month while your sweet PaPa was sick. You're still drinking 4 bottles of formula a day - about 6 ounces each.
• Are drinking well out of a sippy cup, but mostly drink water instead of diluted juice. You like water just as well and Mommy and Daddy decided there wasn't any need for you to drink juice nutritionally for now.
• Are still wearing size 4 diapers.
• Are wearing exclusively 12 month clothes now. The season has changed and we don't have many 12 month clothes for spring, but we're not going to buy many. Your 12 months clothes fit "well" right now and I'm sure we'll move you to 18 month clothes very soon! You've also graduated to your first pajamas that don't have "feet". 
• Weigh 23.5 pounds according to our rough calculations at home. At your 9-month checkup on February 24th, you weighed 21 pounds 12.5 ounces (91%) and were 29.25 inches long (94%). 
• Have 2 more teeth coming in up top. They're not the central incisors, they're the lateral ones! Maybe you'll have fangs like Dracula!
• Still take a morning nap and an afternoon nap.
• Usually go to sleep between 7:00 and 7:30 pm and wake up between 7:00 and 8:00 am, but the time change this past week has thrown you off. You've been sleeping a little later and staying up a little later.
• Still only have one word...Da-Da. Our conversations usually go like this...
• Me: Madeline, can you say Ma-Ma?
• Madeline: Da-Da
• Me: Madeline, can you say Ma-Ma?
• Madeline: Da-Da
• Still love your furry brother, Bond.
• You recognize many words and will look at the object when you hear the name - like milk, bath, paci, shoes, socks, book, "Lizzie Lu" (the name of a puppy dog toy), "Purple Puppy" (the stuffed animal you love sleeping with), and peoples' names like Mommy, Daddy, Gran, MiMi, etc.
• You love your baths! When you hear the water running, you crawl to the tub as fast as you can and try to climb in. :)
• Have started letting us rock you a little bit more, but not much. When you're ready to get in the bed, you're ready! Instead of being cradled, you like to be hugged and rocked. When you're content and almost asleep, you make the sweetest little grunting noises.
• Still making raspberry sounds. 
• Are hearing us say, “No No!” and “Don’t Touch!” more and more. You stop, look at us, smile and laugh. Then do it again until we move you across the room when you proceed to crawl back to where you started. We eventually have to move you to another room to distract you.
• Still kick your feet whenever you get excited, especially when we read books, take a walk with you in your stroller, or swing at the park.
• Love giving “hugs” to your stuffed animals and will give hugs to people sometimes, too. We love it! You wave at people, but not all the time, and Cousin 'Lis taught you how to do the motion for touchdown! We know you have no idea what you're doing, but Daddy loves it.
• "Cruising" everywhere and can walk as long as you're holding on to someone/something, but haven't taken your first steps alone. Everyone tells us it will be any day now! You can also stand on your own without holding onto anything. I haven't put a timer to it, but you can probably stand about 30 seconds.
• Aren't falling and banging yourself up as much, thankfully! You're much better balanced now. That's good, because your poor forehead needed a break!
• Still use your pacifier, but only during naptime and during the night.
• Have started sleeping with a blanket. You love how soft it is and you like us to tickle your face with it.
• Are still very ticklish – on your sides, tummy, and feet.
• L-O-V-E swinging at the park. We're so glad the weather is pretty now so we can take you more often. You squeal with delight.
• Are still “dancing” when we sing or play music. You used to bend your knees up and down and make a bouncing motion, but you also move your arms back and forth like a washing machine agitator.
• Learning your body parts: nose, tummy, head, toes, etc.

We'll be planning your first birthday party very soon! CANNOT believe it!