10 Months!

Addie turned 10 months yesterday and slept through the night again (finally)! This luxury has been extinct since she started teething and ruined her 2 month streak. Addie is very hot natured but I usually dress her in footed PJ's because she won't keep the covers on. Usually she wakes up with a sweaty head during the night a few times. Last night I finally put her in a onesie and the girl slept all night. I guess she has been about to die of heat stroke and it keeps waking her up! We'll see if it works again tonight.

Addie really likes to chatter. Her newest words are "bad" and dog, though dog sounds more like "dag". Whenever she sees our dogs or Scott's new puppy she says "dag" "daggy". She still says "bow", "uh oh", "no", "bye", "hi", "hey", "mom or mama", "dad or dada", and tries to say other words but they aren't super clear yet. She tries to say "bite" when she is hungry and I am fixing her food but it comes out "beet", and sometimes when she hears a bird she says "beed".


We read three books before we go to bed and I let Addie pick which order they are read in. She switches it up each night. I put the three books in front of her and she picks up the one she wants me to read. When it is time for the second and third book I do the same thing and she so far has always picked a book that we haven't read yet that night. It is really weird but cute that she picks a different one each time. She has a favorite new book "I see a monster" that is a touch book. I love our cuddle/reading time each night.

Oh it is so funny to not let go of the spoon when Mommy tries to feed you!

Addie is eating lots of real food. A typical day is mixed grain cereal and diced fruit for breakfast, a half a sandwich, pasta, or whatever I'm having for lunch, and usually she eats what we do for dinner too with some things substituted. She eats a lot of the Gerber graduates foods, and loves the dinner entrees. I don't think she is supposed to have those yet, but she loves them. She chews up chips, crackers, bread, meat (I have only given her sliced meats and ground beef), and pretty much anything I put in her mouth or she gets a hold of. Tonight when Jarom was watching her at church she got a staple in her mouth that hadn't been stapled yet. When I took Addie from him I was playing in the foyer with her and saw something shiny and much to her dismay removed it from the death grip of her teeth. She drinks out of a cup, straw, or sippy cup great now and really loves smoothies! She wants me to let go of the normal cup but whenever I do she might get a swallow before she is wearing her drink. She is eating SO much we joke we are going to have to order her a kids meal when we go out!

This box of cheerios was on the opposite edge of the table but somehow she got them and opened the box and chowed down.

Addie is very mobile now. She follows me around the house all day with that weird crawl. She is a mini Houdini and gets out of her bebepod if I don't have the tray on it and seems to escape from everything. When I cook she sits in the pod on the kitchen table and one day I looked over at her and she was in the crawling position on the table with one knee still on the pod about to make her escape onto the floor...eek!
She pulls up nonstop on whatever is around, I have definitely become a jungle gym. Church is a struggle because 3 hours without play time is apparently cruel and unusual punishment to a 10 month old. I bought her a push walker at kids market and she loved it and was making her way around until it got away from her and she was all stretched out like superman and then fell. I caught her so it was more of a scare but now she is a scaredy cat. I also got her a rocking giraffe and that is the best $6 I ever spent. She rocks on that thing all the time then stands up and rocks it and thinks it is a hilarious game. Jarom will push the back of it while she is standing and rocking and they go flying around the house. They are so silly together!


Addie is my little love bug and showers me with sugars and hugs but only when she is in the mood. If I try to steal too many sugars when she isn't in that mood I get a stern growl... are you kidding me? I thought the attitude didn't start until she was 13 or so... What is that?!
She loves to feed me and share her food. Addie is stretch armstrong and can get anything within ten miles of her chair. I swear I put food as far away as possible from her and somehow before I know it the food has turned into body paint.

This past Sunday I woke up and saw that Daddy and Addie were sleeping in exactly the same position, so I rushed to grab the camera. I promise you I didn't pose them!!!

So overall being a mom is a blast and I can't imagine it any other way!