This baby girl spent 10 months (approximately) in my belly and has now spent 10 months making my life complete. The best way to describe her is ... everywhere. She is on the move constantly. Even when she's nursing, she is doing toe-touches, pulling on my necklace, looking for the dog and talking (yep). Speaking of talking, Addie has about 4.5 words thus far. The one she uses the most, that she starts saying the moment her eyes open in the morning, that I swear I've heard her say multiple times in her sleep and that she must say about 876 times per day is BALL. But it's more like ball ball ball ball ball ball ball ball ball ... With a few inserted "Izzy"s every now and again. My favorite is when we go outside and tell Izzy to get her ball and Addie says Izzy ball Izzy ball Izzy ball. The girl has beach balls, bouncy balls, plastic ball-pit-like balls ... they're her favorite toy by far. In addition to her two favorite words, she says ma-ma and da-da and sometimes hi and bye. The past month has been absolutely incredible watching her hit one milestone after another after another. She also hit her fourth (maybe fifth?? I can't remember) ear infection - another double one. We've got an appointment next week with an ear/nose/throat specialist and are hopeful that will give us the go ahead to get tubes in her ears. Our ped told me he's never seen a mom quite so insistent on getting tubes in her baby's ears (I'm sure he was trying to say that nicely :)), but it just pains me so much to see her in pain, and the antibiotics practically cause more harm than good to her. So, yep, bring on the tubes. Speaking of tubes, remember that one in her eye? Yeah, she pulled it out a bit so we had to go in and have it removed completely. Thankfully it seems to have done it's job and her symptoms have disappeared. When our doc said about 5 percent of babies pull their tubes out, Jordan and I looked at each other and said that will be our girl.
When I look into Addie's sweet face, it looks more and more like a big girl and less like a baby. Exciting and sad all at the same time. Though we miss little things about her being a tiny baby, Jordan and I are just holding on for dear life and trying to enjoy every moment while we look forward to all the fun times ahead.
Weight: approx 18 pounds
Length: approx 28 inches
New things this month:
- Perfecting the army crawl and occasionally crawling up on her knees. She looks like a baby sea turtle. And she is FAST
- Pushing herself from tummy to a seated position.
- Pulling up on everything. And cruising around the furniture. Sometimes pulling up on our pant legs. Sometimes pulling up and letting go of everything and forgetting she can't quite stand on her own yet.
- Saying ball, bye, hi and, finally, da-da
- Looking up and pointing when we ask "where's the fan?"
- Clapping. So very cute.
- Waving. With both hands. At herself. Even cuter than the clapping.
- Sticking out her tongue and/or blowing raspberries when we ask where her tongue is. Baby girl's got tricks!
- Sleeping with her bottom sticking up in the air. Be still my heart.
- Wanting to eat anything and everything we're eating.
- Clearly developing a stubborn, I-want-my-way streak. We have no idea where she got this ...
- The ball. Any variety or size. And she wants to talk about it a whole lot.
- All four-legged friends. Whether they want to be her friend or not, and that includes the two she lives with. Any and all four-legged friends are named Izzy.
- Eating. New favorite foods have been pineapple, hamburger and brisket.
- Playing pattycake. Especially since she can now clap.
- Dancing and bouncing to music.
- Swimming. She is crazy about being in the pool.
- Playing peekaboo with her own shirt.
- Typing emails. Well, really she just likes to punch all the keys on my computer.
- Watching videos of herself.
- Other babies. She's just started to really notice other babies when we're out and about, and she'll strain and wiggle to watch them as long as possible.
- Giving slobbery, open-mouth kisses. And getting slobbery, open-mouth kisses from Izzy
- Her mom and dad. It never gets old that she likes us so much. She's been reaching for us to pick her up for quite awhile, but it's much more insistent now. And if we're not paying attention or she really means it, she crawls over and pulls up on our legs.
Dislikes:
- Riding in the backseat alone. We have made this a little easier by putting a carfull of toys in the backseat with her.
- Being interrupted while playing for something ridiculous like a diaper change or meal or nap.
- Her stationary jumper. Much too confining for a girl who can crawl everywhere (hence why we want to put her in it ...)
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