10 months old

My baby will be 10 months old tomorrow! (I am a little late in publishing this post, whoops) She is super AWESOME, has learned how to scream for fun, loves ALL animals (sometimes she sees them before I do and will let me know by making some very high pitched and cute noises), and other babies and small people aka children, and has started loving shoes- both eating them and wanting to hold them and wear them (at least I think she wants to wear them). 

We finally got her a crib, which apparently is easier to put together when there is not an extremely helpful little girl right by your side wanting to help you use the allen wrench on all the screws. Nonetheless it is finished, and now I just have to learn how to get her to sleep in it.

 

Her favorite play area in the house is the entertainment center, where she opens all the doors and proceeds to remove all the CDs and DVDs from their shelves. When she is done with that she moves on to emptying the mess of papers from the middle compartment. I also had to put up a barricade around our plant as she loves scooping the dirt from the pot not the floor.

She also has made the transition to sleeping on her belly with her buns in the air. This wasn't the best picture of it but you get the idea.

Oh and she is sooooo good at standing on her tippy toes. Like full on pointe some of the time. Without point shoes! Like it ain't no thing!

This here is her learning how to wear shoes...she likes eating them and holding them and looking at them but standing on them is kind of weird.

And I had to document her wrinkly feet and monkey face. This is after she had a bath and refused to sit down in the water for the first 10 minutes

Fun with cousins

Gaaaah I hate when I'm one sentence from finishing a blog post and then my ipad dies and it's not saved. Just had to get that out there in case anyone thought I liked it.

On a happier note, we got to spend 4 fabulous days with my nephews Trey and Miles and we had sooooo much fun! We made tons of good food (it's way better cooking for more people and with more helpers!), enjoyed the pool, and went to Stars and Strikes. I got my newest high score in bowling - 148 thank you very much - and was 1 pin shy of getting a turkey. Eva rode her first tiny carousel and stayed on great all by herself! Until she fell off. All the way from the horse to the floor. Oh it was sad. But George got the whole thing on video and some people think its pretty funny so we will see if it ends up on AFV. We're all hoping she's not brain damaged and that her tailbone is ok.

Other fun things - Eva likes to put small but large things in her mouth just to hold them there...below she has a walnut in her mouth she found on Liz's floor. She found out she could climb to the top of a flight of stairs, with no idea how to get back down. Miles found out he could do fancy writings on photos with one of my ipad apps...the first picture (featured below) turned out super cute, and then things started getting crazy with all the captions that him and Trey started cranking out. Eva might need a baby bra. Aaaand...wait for it...she loves dogs now! She fell head over heels for Ginger, and I've been begging George (on behalf of Eva) for the last full day to get a dog. It's not working yet.

Last but not least I was reading Eva a book called "Dear Zoo," in which you lift up flaps to see different animals. I make their noises too for all the ones that have noises. Today we were reading it and Eva wants to read it a second time in a row, and at the end there is a doggy. I make the woof woof noise and then she starts making a noise that is more like an oooo oooo noise but that sounds like woof woof. Then 30 minutes later I read it again with her to show George and sure enough she makes her doggy noise right on cue! So I guess she's super smart because she knows what's important.

The end.