Hadley: Ten Months!

Happy Ten Months, Sissy! 

{Sissy is your newest nickname this month.}

You bring such joy to our family! 

You are continue to be the sweetest, most laid-back baby!
You just always go with the flow, and we are beyond thankful for your precious personality!

 

 

Here's what Miss Hadley is up to these days....

--You've got 2 teeth!! Well kind of! ;)  One is completely through onthe bottom, and the other is just peeking through on the top. We just felt it for the first time a couple of days ago, but when we hang you upside (during playtime, of course! Ha!) we can see it now!
--Sleeping GREAT! You go to bed between 7-8 every night & wake up between 7-8 in the morning. You take 2 naps. We usually only let you sleep for an hour in the morning {so we can get to our daily activity after your nap}, but you sleep for 2+hrs in the afternoon {unless your teeth are bothering you, then your pm naps are cut short by your discomfort}.
--You are an awesome eater!!! You will try anything that's put in front of you, but your favorites are mandarin oranges, soup, wheat thins/goldfish/any kind of cracker, honey nut cheerios, & grapes. You eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner with us everyday and you eat lots of snacks. Shelby has never been much of a snacker, but I'm suddenly having to pack lots of snacks in the diaper bag before we go anywhere to make sure you'll have something to eat. ;) You love your snacks!
--We make you four 6oz bottles of formula a day. Some days (especially if your teeth are bothering you!), we're lucky if you drink 3oz of each bottle. Other days, you drink them all without taking a breath! You have aboslutely NO interest in holding your own bottle though, ha!
--You love to drink water out of our glasses or drink milk/water out of your sister's straw cups when she's not looking. ;)  And of course, you hold Shelby's cups all by yourself but will not hold your own bottle...what's up with that?!

--Your hair sticks sraight up in the back, and it's too cute! People always comment on your spiky hair. Ms. Kathy at Bear Cub Club says it makes you look like a cute little peacock. ;)

--You've got a few tricks you like to show off with lately that you can {usually!} do on command: clapping, pointing to people's noses, waving, and putting your arms in the air when we say you're "so big." ;)
--You can now go from a sitting position to your tummy.
--You have attempted to a pull up a couple times, but no luck yet! We did go ahead & lower your crib just in case though. ;)
--Still immobile! Shelby is SO anxious for you to learn how to crawl! Every time you go from the seated position to down on your tummy, she'll yell: "Mommy, she's practicing her crawling now!" ;)  We know our days of you staying in one place are numbered, so we're enjoying this stage as long as we can! Shelby started "army crawling" at 10.5 months, so we're anxious to see if you'll start moving around the same age!
--You are currently in size 4 diapers & mostly wear 12-18 months clothes, but you wear stuff of all sizes from your big sister's old wardrobe. Everything was of course perfectly sized for Shelby, but we just have to make it all work for you. Shelby's first Valentine's Day outfits were 6-9 months & her 2nd V-Day stuff was mostly 18-24mo/2T. So all of the V-Day stuff Hadley is currently sporting is either a bit snug or haning off of her. ;)  Yesterday Hadley was wearing Shelby's old 2T jeggings & a 6mo Valentine's Day shirt with an 18mo size jacket! Oh, the life of a second child! ;)
--You survived your first cold this month! Your big sister shared her germs with you. :(  You were such a trooper though!! If it wasn't for your snotty face, we never would have even known you were sick! You didn't act like it bothered you at all!
--You love to talk and babble, and you especially love mimicking the sounds we make!

And here's the end of our photo shot ;)

Ten months is just such a fun age! We wish we could freeze time with you right now! Well, with the one little exception of you crying & acting like the world is ending when Mommy walks away from you, that we could do without! Ha! ;) 

We love you, Hadley Mae!