Happy 10 months!

It is not easy getting a 10 month old to sit still for a picture!

I know I say this every month, but seriously where has the time gone!  I can't believe that in 2 months I will have a 1 year old!  I really just want time to slow down! 

Here's what's happening with Emily at 10 months:

 - She mainly wears 6-12 month clothes, but can still fit into several 3-6 month clothes. 

 - She's become an excellent napper (at home - not school).  She'll take about a 2 hour nap in the morning and between an hour - 2 hour nap in the afternoon.  Bedtime is still between 7:30 and 8:00.

 -  She loves to "talk."  She says mama, baba, dada, lala, etc..  She's loud.  She loves to squeal at the top of her lungs.  She also loves to "roar" and "pant."  I know that sounds really weird.

 - She's almost totally on solid foods.  No more baby food for this girl.  (She still has 4-5 bottles a day though).

 - We've successfully taken her off her acid reflux medicine and she's also now on the Enfagrow Gentlease formula.  It's for older babies and toddlers.

 - She loves to wave.

 - She is pulling up on everything and "cruises" around her toys.

 - She can crawl up on "all fours" now.  She crawls over everything.  She has recently discovered her little pink chair in her room and loves to crawl up into it and sit or look over the back of it.  She's quick too.  She will crawl to the other side of the room before you know it.

 - Still no teeth!  I'm just enjoying not having to brush them  :)

No Fear

It's so funny to see how different Emily is from me when it comes to personality.  I'm always very cautious and quiet.  But not my daughter!  She's extremely social, loves to "talk" (loudly) and has absolutely no fear.  At school they have a tunnel to crawl through and several big foam pads to climb over and into.  When I put her on the floor at school this morning she immediately took off and was practically throwing herself over the foam pads and through the tunnel.  She always makes me laugh.  And we even got a note from her teacher today saying that she now climbs into the toybox. :)  Then, this afternoon, while her and I were at home she discovered the stairs and before I knew it had climbed more than half way up on her own.  I love that she has the personality that she does, but I know she gets it more from her daddy than from me.  :)

Oldest Baby

Today when I dropped Emily off at daycare, they told me that she's now the oldest baby on her side of the infant room.  I couldn't believe it!  This made me so sad because it means Emily will be the next one to move to the next room.  Unlike the infant room that's split into a younger and older side, this will be an entirely new room with new teachers.  They said the timing depends on when new babies start.  I'm hoping it's at least not until she's walking.  That will make me so nervous to have her in a room full of toddlers that are already walking.  I'll be scared she'll be stepped on.  It also made me realize my baby is growing up.  Her moving from the infant room means that she'll now be considered a "young toddler."  I'm not ready for that!!!  I just want to freeze time and have her stay my baby! 

They also told me that it might be a good idea to start putting shoes on her from now on.  She has to wear shoes once she starts walking so they told us it's good for her to start getting used to them now.  I'm just excited I now have an excuse to buy her shoes.  :) 

Sick Day

I stayed home with Emily today to take her to the dr. this morning.  She looked awful this morning when she woke up.  Both of her eyes were almost matted shut with green goop and her nose was all snotty and crusted over.  Poor Baby!  I called as soon as they opened this morning and we were able to get in to see the dr. by late morning.  We had thought it was pink eye, but thankfully it's not (as that is super contagious).   Instead she ended up with a double ear infection and eye infection.  It's the same diagnosis we got at her 6 month checkup.  So we're back on the amoxicillion and eye drops.  I've given her the first dose already and I can say is 4 months makes a huge difference.  I struggled a bit when she was 6 months to take the medicine (which I got flavor added to) and put the eye drops in her eyes, but now at almost 10 months, I literally have to hold down with all my weight just to get her to take the medicine.  Let's not even talk about the eye drops since she squeezes her eyes shut with all her might.  We'll be lucky if half the medicine actually makes it in them.  Hopefully the next 10 days go by fast!

We were going to watch a movie this afternoon on her sick day, but Emily couldn't make up her mind about which one she wanted to watch.

Weekend Wrap-up

It was another quiet weekend here.  Shawn spent Saturday afternoon working in the yard and I stayed in and played with Emily.  Emily woke up with a really runny nose Saturday morning and just didn't seem to be herself.  She slept much of the day.  Saturday night, I was able to escape for a girl's night out.  I had so much fun going out with my friends!  It totally re-energized me and made me realize I need to plan more girl's night out.

Here are a few pics of Emily from Saturday afternoon.

Sunday morning Emily slept in a little bit (til almost 7:30!).  She was still not feeling well though. Her nose was so runny and she was drooling like crazy.  She pretty much had no appetite for solid food.  So she mainly just stuck to her having bottles.  I was able to sneak out for a few hours though and go shopping with my mom.  It was tax-free weekend and yet I still ended up only buying things that were still charged tax.  I did get her Halloween costume though which I'm super excited about.  You'll only have to wait 2 more months to find out what it is.  :)  When I got home from shopping Shawn told me Emily looked like she had pink eye.  And after reading about it in Baby 411 (our go-to book), it did indeed seem like she had pink eye.  Both of her eyes were red all around and she had some green goop coming from the corners of her eyes.  And she had been rubbing them like crazy.  After reading a bit more, we saw that many times sinus infections and ear infections accompany pink eye.  Which may explain her fussiness as well as all the green snot.  So now the plan is for me to stay home tomorrow and take her in to see the dr.  I'm just really hoping if she does indeed have pink eye, that Shawn and I don't get it.  Although I'm not sure how we would escape it when she's been burrowing her head into both of us all weekend.  Her germs are all over us. 

Here are some pics from Sunday.  I love her little chunky legs!  

These next several are for my Aunt Ann.  She loves playing with the stroller you got her!

I know, she looks so sick in this picture.  But at least I was still able to get a few smiles.

Lack of Posts

Yes, we are all alive and well at the Baxter house.  Please forgive me for my lack of postings.  For once, we've had a really quiet month with not much going on.   So there just hasn't been a whole lot to blog about.  Here are a few pics from the last couple of weeks. . .just so you all can get your Emily fix.  :)

Quiet Weekend

It was a quiet weekend.  Shawn played golf with friends on Saturday, so me and Emily just hung out at the house.  It was too hot to venture out.  She did prove one thing to me this weekend though.  She does know how to nap (in her crib too).  We've always had such a difficult time getting her to nap during the day.  This last week at daycare she has only been taking somewhere between a 20 - 45 min. nap all day!  But on Saturday she took a 2 hour and 45 min. nap in the morning and an hour and 20 min. nap in the afternoon.  I finally know how parents get stuff done around the house. . . it's during naptime.  I'm not sure how I ever made it before.

Here are just a few pics from our day on Saturday.

And on another note, we successfully have taken Emily off her acid reflux medicine as well as switched to the Enfamil Gentlease formula.  Wahoo!!!  She had no problems at all with the switch.

Sassy

Each day, daycare sends home a sheet telling us all about Emily's day.  It usually tells us when she was changed, when she napped, what she ate, etc.  At the bottom is a section to describe her mood.  Yesterday, her sheet had the boxes checked for happy and friendly.  Then in the "other" category, they had written in "sassy."  I had to laugh when I saw this.  How many other 9 month olds do you know that are sassy?  Only my daughter.  She's got quite the personality on her.  :)

On another note, Emily is doing great on the older side of the infant room.  Just recently, we told them they can start serving her the breakfast and lunch that the daycare serves each day.  And then just give her baby food if she's still hungry.  Well, let's just say, she's not eating much baby food at school anymore.  She much prefers to eat the table food.  So far she's had cheerios, waffles, bacon, lasagna, bread, chicken, broccoli, and fruit cocktail.  For a baby with no teeth (yes, still no teeth), she's doing well with the table food.  We're not quite as brave at home, so she still mainly gets baby food on our watch.

Into Everything

Just in the last week or so, Emily has learned to maneuver around the house very quickly.  She's still mainly doing an army crawl, but boy can she get around quickly.  She is now everywhere and into everything!  I can't turn my back for a minute.  Just in the last couple of days she has found and torn up all our magazines, pulled the DVD's out of the entertainment center, found Lily's food (I caught her before any made it to her mouth), and found Lily's toys.  Let's just say we have found a much higher home for most of this stuff.  I'm not sure what to do about Lily's food.  She also is becoming quite good at cleaning my kitchen floor with her tummy.  If only I could attach a sponge to it.  :)  If we are in the kitchen, next thing you know, she is too.  It's just so crazy how quickly she went from just sitting and then pulling up, to now crawling all over place. 

We spent lots of time upstairs this weekend in the gameroom.  It has the least amount of stuff for her to "get into."  She's starting to love playing in her house that we bought her for Christmas last year.

Her favorite thing about the house is definitely the mail.  She discovered she could get around much more quickly if she carried the mail around in her mouth.  I couldn't stop laughing because she literally did this 5 or 6 times. 

She also loves the musical table that Kevin and Julie brought over for her.  It's one of the many toys they passed down to us from Lauren and Natalie. 

This picture makes me so nervous.  I can only imagine what's going through her mind.  I'm sure it's something like "how can I climb up this thing to get all those toys."