Emery Katherine turned 10 months old on January 8th! She is such a sweetie whose cheeks are constantly getting kissed by her mommy and daddy! We weighed her on our scale and she was right at 19 lbs this month.
PERSONALITY!
Every month her personality shines more and more, and this month it has been so neat to watch her communicate with us. She has completely grasped the sign "all done" and will do that, along with shake her head "no" when she is full or doesn't enjoy the food we give her (ie green beans!).
She loves to wave and will do so on command if you say "hi", "bye" or "night night". Her newest trick is pointing at the things that she wants, which is so cool! The points started like this (below) but have now developed into actually using her pointer finger.
Every month her personality shines more and more, and this month it has been so neat to watch her communicate with us. She has completely grasped the sign "all done" and will do that, along with shake her head "no" when she is full or doesn't enjoy the food we give her (ie green beans!).
She loves to wave and will do so on command if you say "hi", "bye" or "night night". Her newest trick is pointing at the things that she wants, which is so cool! The points started like this (below) but have now developed into actually using her pointer finger.
She also started for real clapping this month when we say "Yeahh", which is so fun! She has been "clapping" for a couple months now, but would only successfully bring her hands together once. Now it's a full on clapping motion over and over again. You can tell by her face below how proud of herself she is when we say "Yeahhhh Emery".
EATING!
Emery put on a pound this month which tells you that she loves to eat! She really is such a great sport, eating up most everything we give her to try. She is still nursing from me probably about 4 ounces per feeding, 4 times a day. At this point I'm confident that I'll be able to nurse her an entire year, which I am really excited about and grateful that it was so easy for us to do.
PLAYTIME!
EATING!
Emery put on a pound this month which tells you that she loves to eat! She really is such a great sport, eating up most everything we give her to try. She is still nursing from me probably about 4 ounces per feeding, 4 times a day. At this point I'm confident that I'll be able to nurse her an entire year, which I am really excited about and grateful that it was so easy for us to do.
PLAYTIME!
Emery is still army crawling around, dragging her face on the floor as she goes. She actually likes playing some on her tummy now which is exciting. If she sees something that she wants that is out of reach, she'll just dive forward onto her face no big deal. We are really going to work on arm strength next month!
A new trick of hers this month was learning the word "share" and voluntarily handing us toys that she's been playing with when we say it.
Emery received so many fun toys from family for Christmas so she's really been enjoying playing with them and learning what each one does. She's standing more these days too, holding onto her activity table or our coffee table for balance.
SLEEPING!
She's still keeping the same schedule, which we love. Up at 7:30-8am, eat, play, nap from 9:30-11:30am. Eat, play, nap at 3:00-4:30pm. Eat, play, down for bed at 7:00pm. She did randomly wake up around 4am a couple nights this month, and was starving. We don't know if it had anything to do with how much food she'd eaten that day or if it was just a growth spurt. Either way she would nurse and then go right back down to sleep.
A new trick of hers this month was learning the word "share" and voluntarily handing us toys that she's been playing with when we say it.
Emery received so many fun toys from family for Christmas so she's really been enjoying playing with them and learning what each one does. She's standing more these days too, holding onto her activity table or our coffee table for balance.
This pic is a little blurry but so cute:
SLEEPING!
She's still keeping the same schedule, which we love. Up at 7:30-8am, eat, play, nap from 9:30-11:30am. Eat, play, nap at 3:00-4:30pm. Eat, play, down for bed at 7:00pm. She did randomly wake up around 4am a couple nights this month, and was starving. We don't know if it had anything to do with how much food she'd eaten that day or if it was just a growth spurt. Either way she would nurse and then go right back down to sleep.
RANDOMS!
- Emery LOVES to swing, even if it's freezing outside. We put her in her snow suit and out we go to the swing! We bought an 18 month snow suit so it'll hopefully fit her next winter as well, so it's pretty big on her now but still does the job!
- Emery still has NO TEETH!
- She traveled really well to and from Raleigh for Christmas. We slept at 5 different homes that trip and she kept her schedule really well!
- Em is so expressive these days with her faces. Click here to see that post of pictures!
- Emery LOVES to swing, even if it's freezing outside. We put her in her snow suit and out we go to the swing! We bought an 18 month snow suit so it'll hopefully fit her next winter as well, so it's pretty big on her now but still does the job!
She squeals and talks the whole time!
And one more swing pic from my phone:
- She traveled really well to and from Raleigh for Christmas. We slept at 5 different homes that trip and she kept her schedule really well!
Here are my iphone pics for the month:
Happy 10 months sweet Emery Katherine, we love you so much!
2 comments:
Oh my goodness! I want to kiss her cheeks so badly through this computer screen!!!!! She is the most adorable little brown-eyed girl that I know!!!! Love how much she's growing and how much she is doing now. And don't worry: the teeth will come in due time! She is following in your footsteps!
Oh my goodness, her eyes do look brown in that last picture! Could it be? Such a cutie and doing so many fun things! Enjoy nursing when she still has no teeth! I love the pic of she and Kyle looking eye to eye. Can't wait to see and hear her in person again!
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