Eliana you are 10 months old!!!
FYI: This post is going to have a TON of pictures because I just couldn't choose which ones
I wanted to use. For all of the grandparents reading this, you can click on the pictures to
make them bigger. Also, one day I'll get blogger to cooperate and allow me to post pictures
side-by-side, so you don't have to scroll so much.
Ok, back to Eliana...
make them bigger. Also, one day I'll get blogger to cooperate and allow me to post pictures
side-by-side, so you don't have to scroll so much.
Ok, back to Eliana...
-You are still wearing mostly 9-month clothes, but you can also wear 6-12 months…for
the most part. I have put you in a few 12-month
outfits recently. They’re a little long, but
you can still wear them.
- I have no idea what you weigh now.
- I have no idea how long you are.
-We’re still working on the sippy cup. I feel like you’ve almost gotten the
hang of using a
straw. I don’t know if we should try a regular sippy cup right
now or not. I’m afraid you’ll
lose the progress you’ve made on the straw.
- You are eating all kinds of things now! You love macaroni and
cheese and grilled cheese!
You really love anything you can eat with your
fingers. I think you ate half of my dinner the
other night!
- You absolutely love Cheerios! You seriously act like they are
the best things you’ve ever
eaten.
- You got a bunch of cloth books for Christmas, which has been
wonderful! You will even sit
down and let me read them to you now! I really
hope you love to read.
- You have perfected the art of pulling up and cruising. You are
starting to work on your
balance for standing without holding onto anything.
- You’ve been giving me kisses more than anyone else, and I am
perfectly okay with that.
-You are still sleeping through the night!
- Naptime…oh my…naptime. I think I honestly hate naptime as much
as you do. We started
working on getting you to sleep in your crib for naps while Daddy
was off from work for
Christmas.
You absolutely hate it. You just scream and
scream and scream! You also decided that
messing your diaper was a good way to
get out of taking a nap, so that’s your new trick. I
really hope you get the hang of taking a nap one day. There
have been several days that you
haven’t taken a nap at all, and boy does that
make you grumpy! Honestly, it makes me a
little grumpy, too!
- You are still a ham in public. You love getting as many
people’s attention as you can.
- Still just 2 teeth, but I don’t think it will be long before
you get one on top. I thought I saw
some white the other day. You chew on everything!!!
- You like to lick things, too!
- As usual, we are still working on getting you to play by
yourself without being held. Some
days are good…some days are not so good. I
would say that overall it is getting better,
though. There have been several
days where you’ll play for 30-40 minutes without crying.
-Oh my… you can throw some temper tantrums. Unfortunately, that
has not improved
much (if any) in the last month. I am trying really hard to
ignore these. Sometimes this
works and you’ll start playing with a
toy…sometimes it just gets worse.
- You are still pulling my hair. However, now you also grab my
eyelids, nose, eyebrows, and
ears when you’re nursing. Sometimes it hurts, but
sometimes it’s really cute. I love it when
you grab my hand to hold while you
are nursing. These are the moments I want to cherish
forever!
- You are saying “mama” all of the time now!!! Yay!!! I’m not
sure if you know what it
means yet, but I’ll assume that you do.
- You are pointing at things that you want now, and that is
soooo helpful! It really helps
with communication! I especially love it when
you point at your pack n’ play because you
want to get in it and play with your
toys.
- You started clapping on 12/21/12. It is so cute! You clap when
we clap for you because
you’ve done something good. You also clap along with
music. I’m not sure if I’ve put it on
the blog before, but you stop everything
that you are doing when the “Hotdog Song” from
The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse comes
on. You got a Mickey for Christmas that sings and
dances to that song.
- Grandpa Lee got "Old Blue" out of storage for you. This was your Auntie L's toy first, but
Mommy used it a lot, too. Your favorite thing about "Old Blue" right now is sometimes you
get a snack when you're sitting on him.
- Case in point... look at your messy face in this picture.
- Speaking of Christmas...you got way too many presents, but we
are so thankful for
everyone that got you something. By the end of Christmas
you were starting to get the hang
of opening presents. I’m hoping you’ll be
able to do it by your birthday (I don’t want to talk
about how soon that is). Below are some pictures from some of our Christmas festivities!
- This is a picture of you and all of your cousins celebrating Christmas at Grandpa Lee and
Grandma Sue's house.
- On 12/20/12 you tried to swallow one of my earrings. That was
not a fun couple of
seconds! I was nursing you, but I wasn’t really looking at
you. You were messing with my
ear, but like I said before, you do that. All of
a sudden you stopped nursing, and I looked
down and it looked like you were
chomping on something. You’ve also pretended to chomp
before, so I thought that’s
what you were doing. All of a sudden I saw the back of my
earring fall down in
front of me. I quickly realized that you weren’t pretending to chomp,
and you
had my earring in your mouth! I sat you up as fast as I could and swiped your
mouth with my finger. Thankfully I got the earring before you swallowed it!
Needless to
say, I’ve been very careful about wearing earrings, and most of the
time I don’t wear them
at all right now.
- You still love bath time. You crack Daddy and me up because it
never fails by the end of
your bath you have managed to try to stand up in the
tub. We always call it “showing the
dimple butt.” Ha…you’ll love me for
publishing that one day. I love you!
- These are some of the pictures we took when we were trying to get a picture for our
Christmas cards.
And here are some more pictures that I just wanted to post...
Oh, Ellie. I love you and your sweet, hilarious personality.