10 Months

 Double digits?!?! Geez, the time is flying by! And it was a busy month too! Harper started crawling a few days after she was 9 months old. Now at 10 months, she's an expert and crawls so fast and out of sight quickly. Now that she's crawling and exploring, she's pulling up on everything too. She's interested in getting into things she shouldn't be...not a day goes by that she's not opened a drawer to her dresser and taken out every bit of clothing that's in it, or into the cabinet where her diapers are stored and has them thrown about the room. She's a human hurricane. I'm trying to make her some sensory boxes out of fun things to dig into and investigate. We won't tell her that I'm making them to keep her still for a few minutes, at least!

H continues to love to eat. Her new favorite is peas. She can't get enough of them! She also got to try watermelon for the first time this month. Summer is finally here! Blueberries are still her favorite snack/breakfast/dessert :) We did let her try Chipotle a couple weeks ago. She had a cheese quesadilla, some black beans and some brown rice. Needless to say, she loved it all. If we teach her anything in life, shouldn't it be to love Chipotle? We keep feeding her new things and we want to make sure she wants to try everything and be a really good eater. Her chubby legs are proof that she's a good eater so far....

What else is new? She's good at making a lot of noise. She "talks" all the time. She also loves to dance. When music plays on TV or one of her toys, she bobs up and down and gets a huge smile on her face. She's too much! She's also learned how to make a pig face and she turns up her lips and breaths hard in and out of her nose. It's totally cute and we do it back to her. She's got personality, for sure!
Harper really, really loves books. We've got stashes of them all around the house and in the car and in the diaper bag. She reads out loud and points to things in them. She's so smart ;) We read every night before bed and she's already picking favorites. A book that Granddaddy and Vicki got her for Christmas called "I Love You, Good Night" is always the last one we read, sometimes twice! She likes to turn the pages and she points to the pictures the same way every time. We know when she wants it read again because when she closes the last page, she starts to whine. One day I read it to her 4 times before she finally was ready to sleep. She's a little stinker!

Getting what she wants is starting to show and she likes to test her limits. If we say "No", she looks at us and stops, but then may try it again to see if she can get away with it. Like I said...stinker! A few times we've had to move her away from something or take something from her and, boy, did she get mad! She's got a little red mark that appears on her forehead. It's hard not to smile or laugh when she gets mad too! Sometimes she's even laughed or given us a pig face when we've told her no... We're in trouble!