I know it is late, but things have been busy. As in I was working until 3am last night and only got 3 hours of sleep busy. So, without further ado, Elizabeth at 10 months:
- She waves if you wave or say hi or bye. Sometimes it is a full arm wave and sometimes just the hand. She seems to have skipped over the waving to themselves phase, though.
- She loves her new daycare and is loving being a big kid. All the other kids are between 1 1/2 and 3 and she goes along for the ride. When I pick her up she insists on walking me over to the slide to help her go down or to specific toys. She plays in the sandbox and with sidewalk chalk and the whole 9 yards. And I'm apparently focusing all my anxiety on the house and so not worried about how much of those things she is eating.
- She is on a bottle strike at daycare. She won't take them and drinks only the tiniest bit of milk from a sippy cup. The first week when the temps were in the 90s we were all concerned about dehydration, but now that it has cooled off I'm okay if she mostly just eats real food with some sips from a sippy and then nurses and takes an additional bottle at home in the evening.
- The stubborn streak she has had all along is starting to manifest itself in more toddler ways. If you try to set her down and she doesn't want you to, she throws herself backwards on the floor in an early temper tantrum. Because banging her head on the floor will show me, right? She also shakes her head no a lot!
- She loves to dance and make her stuffed animals dance. Super cute.
- She adores animals. Live ones, pictures of them, animals on tv. One day a couple weeks ago she and I were doing a mega errand trip and after about the 6th or 7th stop we were next to a Petsmart so I took her in and we spent 15 minutes just watching the dogs in their doggy daycare. Elizabeth heaven!
- She eats a wide range of foods but if she doesn't want it, she makes that very clear. It isn't a consistent set of foods that she rejects, however. It may be her mood or that she sees something better, but she will throw things she doesn't want off her tray. She pretty much uniformly rejects those food pouches she loved so much a month ago.
- She loves books, especially if they have dogs in them.
- She will watch about 5 minutes of tv in rapt attention and then gets bored.
- She likes to make sounds and will shake things or bang things to see what sound they make.
- She is still getting up twice a night to eat, but given the current bottle strike at daycare I'm not willing to try to break that habit because she needs the milk.
- She will go to bed or down for a nap for Joe but will not accept him in the middle of the night. If he goes in to give her a pacifier because she shouldn't need to eat yet, she gets MAD and it then takes me over an hour and multiple attempts to get her back to sleep. Normally I have her back asleep in less than 10 minutes. My best theory is that she loses her faith that she can have Mommy and so doesn't trust that I'll be back.
- She has started pulling her bows out all the time. It used to be that I could keep them in most of the time except when she was unsupervised and bored (carseat, crib). Now it is rare to keep one in for an hour. This makes me sad because her hair is so scraggly and it is long enough to be in her face but not long enough to just be down.
- As of the day after she turned 10 months she was just under 28 inches tall/long and weighed 18 1/2 pounds, still right on the 50th for everything.
- She still just has 4 teeth.
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