Charlie 10 Months

Our baby is 10 months old.  She's TWO months away from being a year! Good grief.  This month was so much better then the month previous.  

  

      

- Charlie started sleeping on her stomach with her butt in the air. She doesn't start out this way, but there's been more than one morning we've found her like this
- Also on the sleeping front, she's back to sleeping through the night 98% of the time.  We can deal with 2% of middle of the night wake ups.  Happy baby, happy (well rested) parents. 
- Her sounds are quite vast. She has her normal jibber jabber, and not she's added this low, scratchy voice. It's hilarious to us listening to all the noises she creates. Newest addition, one I'm pretty sure she picked up from cousin Cooper because it sounds exactly like him is her grunts.  She will grunt at you once, maybe twice to get your attention.  She's got the "dadadada" noise down and on occasion we've heard "mamama" but usually she likes the G sound and goes with a "gabagababa" type babble. 
- She loves to jump in your arms, but she seems to be over her jumper we have. The one at Ma's house has a lot more bounce so she can still be entertained in it. Our's has since been moved upstairs to the end of the hall.  I'm not ready to put it away entirely.  There's still occasions that we plop her in it to allow us to make the bed or put away laundry.  

- She started out the month by standing up with a little bit of assistance. If she can get a good grip, she can pull herself up from a sitting position. By the end of the month Charlie was able to pull herself to stand on whatever furniture she sees fit without assistance.  Cue mama heart attack.  This neat trick also earned her first black eye at daycare when she toppled down and hit her head on a toy.   It was also the reason her crib mattress was lowered this month. 
- At the beginning of the month she still wasn't crawling in the normal respect, she started this lunging action. She would get up on her knees and then lunge herself forward at a toy. It's pretty amusing. Mainly though she was rolling herself from place to place. On 3/15/15 Charlie crawled for the first time.  It was awesome because both Steve and I were home to witness it! We've tried countless tricks in the past to get her to try and go after things, but nothing ever worked.  My romance novel was laying on the floor and that's the item that finally peaked her interest enough to get her moving! Like good parents, we continued to toss it back and forth, having our daughter play "fetch" while we took videos.  
- She loves to dance. Whether it's Frank Sinatra playing or daddy singing something silly, Charlie loves to dance with us.  Even when music comes on from a movie or the radio, she scoots her butt and bounces to the music. 

- We had our first swim class! It's only a half hour class and I'd say she's the second youngest in the class.  She didn't scream, but there was basically no expression what so ever until the very end.  She kicked her feet a bit but still wasn't too sure about the whole experience.  It's a class that runs through the summer, so we're going to keep trying!

 

-    First Easter (out of the womb) She enjoyed some noodles, green beans and mashed potatoes.  Along with a ridiculous amount of pictures by mama and relatives.
- Wearing 6-9 months and 9 month clothing.  Size 3 disposable diapers. 
- Still on Zantac twice a day.  
-  She usually take 5-6 ounce bottles 4-5 times a day.  We're working our way up to 6 ounce bottles right now.  I worry about this a lot because I want to get Charlie transitioned to the sippy cup.  I have no idea how to involve that transition yet.  
-  Charlie is starting to get sick of baby food.  Especially when around the cousins or eating meals with mama and daddy.  So we're slowly working on big people food with her.   She has an awful gag reflex so although she has though 8 pretty teeth, it makes me nervous. 
- This month she's also become more of a "home body" so to speak.  Charlie will tolerate strangers but only if firmly held by mama or daddy  (usually mama).