10-Month Review
Dear Georgia:
In addition to being the anniversary of the invasion of Pearl Harbor, today is your 10-month birthday! What better way to celebrate the big occasion than to sprout your first freckle? We’ve had first freckle false alarms before, but this is a bona fide sighting! You have a little brown freckle on the bottom of your right leg. Just like the rest of you, it’s adorable.
Our biggest challenge with you these days is simply keeping up with you. You are so mobile! You’re crawling everywhere and getting into everything, so we’re in full baby proof mode. The gates, door locks and other baby proofing supplies have been purchased. Now if we could only figure out how to install them….
You have begun climbing up the stairs, which is especially frightening given that at the bottom of our stairs are 12” ceramic tiles. You also enjoy pulling yourself up against tables, chairs, sofas, etc., so we have to keep surfaces clear of non-approved items. Your new mobility has also prompted us to take house cleaning more seriously, so I’ve been disinfecting things more regularly and purchased a turbo carpet cleaning machine. Neither are much fun, but it is a relief knowing that things are pretty clean.
You’re in a bit of an experimental phase right now when it comes to food. Applesauce is your favorite, followed closely by these puffy fruit things and dog food. I can see why the dog food would be so tempting; it’s the perfect size and sits in a bowl on the floor just waiting for you to pick it up. Even so, it’s really gross and off limits.
One of your favorite things to do is to bang things on other things. Whether you’re slapping your hands on the coffee table or bashing two toys against each other, banging things together always makes you smile. You’re also taking more interest in books. While you still like to chew on them and rip them out of my hands to toss them to the floor, your attention span has grown to allow for me to read about four pages before you lose interest.
You have a lot more hair these days. It’s longer and thicker, but there’s still not enough of it to justify fancy bows everyday. Honestly, I’m surprised at the large amount of hair you have. I didn’t have a noticeable amount of hair until I was about two years old. You must have gotten your daddy’s hair genes.
You’re also comprehending a lot more of what we say and are more demanding when we don’t give you what you want. It’s a bit of a guessing game at this point because you understand some of what we say, but you can’t tell us what you want. We try to figure out what you want, but it’s tough. It’s like playing charades but never getting to learn the correct answer. I think your communication frustrations are a big reason why you require a lot more attention these days than you ever have before. It’s quite exhausting.
Some days I look at you and marvel at how big you are, even though you’re still quite small. But not a day goes by that your daddy and I don’t tell you how much we love you, and how blessed we feel to have you in our lives.
Love,
Mama
In addition to being the anniversary of the invasion of Pearl Harbor, today is your 10-month birthday! What better way to celebrate the big occasion than to sprout your first freckle? We’ve had first freckle false alarms before, but this is a bona fide sighting! You have a little brown freckle on the bottom of your right leg. Just like the rest of you, it’s adorable.
Our biggest challenge with you these days is simply keeping up with you. You are so mobile! You’re crawling everywhere and getting into everything, so we’re in full baby proof mode. The gates, door locks and other baby proofing supplies have been purchased. Now if we could only figure out how to install them….
You have begun climbing up the stairs, which is especially frightening given that at the bottom of our stairs are 12” ceramic tiles. You also enjoy pulling yourself up against tables, chairs, sofas, etc., so we have to keep surfaces clear of non-approved items. Your new mobility has also prompted us to take house cleaning more seriously, so I’ve been disinfecting things more regularly and purchased a turbo carpet cleaning machine. Neither are much fun, but it is a relief knowing that things are pretty clean.
You’re in a bit of an experimental phase right now when it comes to food. Applesauce is your favorite, followed closely by these puffy fruit things and dog food. I can see why the dog food would be so tempting; it’s the perfect size and sits in a bowl on the floor just waiting for you to pick it up. Even so, it’s really gross and off limits.
One of your favorite things to do is to bang things on other things. Whether you’re slapping your hands on the coffee table or bashing two toys against each other, banging things together always makes you smile. You’re also taking more interest in books. While you still like to chew on them and rip them out of my hands to toss them to the floor, your attention span has grown to allow for me to read about four pages before you lose interest.
You have a lot more hair these days. It’s longer and thicker, but there’s still not enough of it to justify fancy bows everyday. Honestly, I’m surprised at the large amount of hair you have. I didn’t have a noticeable amount of hair until I was about two years old. You must have gotten your daddy’s hair genes.
You’re also comprehending a lot more of what we say and are more demanding when we don’t give you what you want. It’s a bit of a guessing game at this point because you understand some of what we say, but you can’t tell us what you want. We try to figure out what you want, but it’s tough. It’s like playing charades but never getting to learn the correct answer. I think your communication frustrations are a big reason why you require a lot more attention these days than you ever have before. It’s quite exhausting.
Some days I look at you and marvel at how big you are, even though you’re still quite small. But not a day goes by that your daddy and I don’t tell you how much we love you, and how blessed we feel to have you in our lives.
Love,
Mama
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