Which brings me to naps. They are still inconsistent and all over the place, but for a couple of weeks she was going at least an hour twice a day. However, this past week, she did NOT want to go to sleep in her crib for naps. She wanted to sit up, pull up, play with her babies, wave at me (smart aleck), and generally just NOT SLEEP. She did finally sleep a couple of times early in the week, but most of the week I just tossed her in the Ergo and played some music on my phone (she loves Gaither Vocal Band to fall asleep.) She falls asleep pretty quickly that way, but I don't want her to be dependent on that, you know? Anyway, after she falls asleep, I just lay her down on the bed and surround her with pillows in case she decides she wants to escape.
She is pulling up to standing on EVERYTHING these days. Her crib and the coffee table are favorites, but she's tried the chairs, the dog (that did not go over well), Mommy's lap, her jumparoo ... I can't leave her even for a second in the living room (I'd love to knock down the wall between the kitchen and living room so I can keep an eye on her while I get stuff done, but knocking down walls is just so messy). She still is not crawling forward, but she can get anywhere she wants by scooting, pulling up, and cruising. She still doesn't want to stand on her own just yet, but she has done it for 3-5 seconds a few times. She just might be walking when I post her 11-month update.
She's still pretty little for her age. Tenth percentile for height and weight, and 75th percentile for head circumference. Yeah, her head is huge, just like Daddy. At her 9-month checkup she was 16 and a half pounds and 26 inches. She is growing so fast. Her hands are getting so big they look like they belong to someone else. She is still pretty comfortable in 6-9 month clothes, but her jammies now have to be 9-12 months because her feet get squished. Plus they put nonskid nubs on 9-12 month jammies, which she needs.
She still loves to eat anything and everything except mangoes and avocadoes, and I think we have identified a sensitivity to sweet potatoes. She has vomited the last two times I've given them to her. So we're holding off sweet potatoes for a while. She loves those little green puffs to shove in her mouth, and she cannot make it through breakfast or supper without her precious pear slices. I don't know what I'm going to do when red anjou pears are out of season.
She is saying a few intelligible words with purpose now. Baby and puppy are the big ones, but she tries to say "ropa" (clothes) when she gets dressed in the mornings, and she has said Daddy a few times too. Her vowels are more distinctive this month. Last month they were still all the "uh" sound, but she's added "a" and "e" sounds. She is forming her mouth for "o" and "oo", but they still don't sound like much except "uh." She's also saying a Ron of new consonants like g, k, d, t, f, n, s, v, and a little bit of w.
Just this week I also noticed some teeth on top and bottom that are getting ready to pop through. I ordered he amber teething necklace to help with the drooling and pain.
Man, that's a lot of stuff. I'm a little overwhelmed thinking about all the new stuff she's doing, so I imagine she's having a hard time with all these new things too. I have to keep reminding myself, especially when I can't get her to sleep, of a quote I read that said that they are not trying to make your life difficult, they are trying to show you how difficult it is for them.
By the way, my phone automatically updated to the Ice Cream Sandwich OS today, and I'm loving it, especially the new camera features that are pretty stiff competition for Instagram without all the Big Brother we-own-your-pictures stuff. Here are a few from today. the
Rather gorgeous! Grace be with you all.
ReplyDeleteThank you, David! Same to you.
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