Views From A Vet's Wife: 10 Months!

Little Caylee turned 10 months yesterday! She's growing so fast and I love it. Right now, she's into everything... she has started really trying to climb the stairs too, but going down is tricky. She is usually very happy and can play great by herself. It's fun to watch because she'll crack herself up too. She likes her toys that play music the best and also likes toys she can hold onto to walk with. (I'm thinking those Leap Frog Learner things are in her near future bc she loves Matt's ipad and computer too!)

Caylee will stand by herself, but then sit when she realizes she's doing it. She'll walk anywhere holding onto something, but won't let go just yet. She's been doing great at waving to everyone, though sometimes the "goodbye" waves come after we've passed people. She's very good in restaurants and always tries to "talk" to people around us. She will try to talk too... if I ask her to say "please" and sound it out she'll make certain noises, she will do the same with "i love you"... of course it sounds nothing like what I'm after, but I can tell she's trying to copy and learn-- it's great!

Sleeping has been a challenge this month! The first problem were her top teeth coming in. She missed several days of naps and never slept super long at night. Now she has just decided that playing in her crib during naps is way more exciting. She'll sit there and bounce around and laugh, throw her pacifier and laugh and eventually (45 min later) scream for me. (Caylee doesn't say words, but her screaming sounds exactly like "mommy"... and has sounded like that since about 3 months!) I've been able to rock her some to get her to nap, but she's super squirmy and just wants to play. This weekend she actually slept in until 8am! That's huge, of course, Matt and I didn't get up either, but the minute the dogs go out or one of us gets up she can hear... I still can't figure out how, but she's instantly up. That means on Matt's working days we're up no later than 7.. usually 6:30ish.

Eating... she's eating mostly all "people" food, meaning the table food we eat. We discovered that she doesn't like natural flavors of anything, but everything must have a sauce. Veggies must be in a broth of some sort, meat and noodles have to have something on them (i.e. just a hamburger won't work, but meatloaf with flavor will.... plain noodles with butter are no good, but noodles with cheese are great!) She's very funny. Guess I'll have to start really planning meals better!!

Caylee is such a joy and I'm really lucky I get to see all the little things she does!