10 months

Another month gone by and what an eventful month it was. Meals is growing along. With the addition of two new teeth this month she is now up for four, well two full on teeth and two little nubs. I think the teething has caused some of the fussiness and clinging in the last couple weeks but is kinda hard to tell what is a result of teething and what is just from travelling, changing schedules and adjusting to less attention on the return (no Meals I can’t hold you 24/7). Amelia is very mobile and into everything. She has now worked out how to open the kitchen cupboard doors and drawers, there have only been a couple pinched fingers but I am sure there will be more, ugh. This month her big achievement (at least I would think in her mind) was learning to climb the stairs and in the last couple weeks she figured out to go back down too. She is walking around at all the furniture, cupboards and peoples legs. She doesn’t like standing on her own and when we try to make her there are many grunts and tears but she seems to be able to stand on her own just fine for those few seconds before she either squats down on the floor or throws herself at us. Amelia has also developed a very funny high-speed crawl that involves much more bum wiggle than the regular crawl; she kinda reminds me of a very excited Labrador Retriever, maybe she has been spending too much time with Jasper. She has started saying Dada, she was very excited and proud of herself when she figured it out. When she is mad at me or frustrated she makes a “nanana” noise and recently she has started going “rarara”, no clue what that is about. Amelia still hasn’t developed the very picky palate I had as a child and she will eat most things. Amelia hasn’t figured out that she can take things out of her mouth or spit them out. It is wonderful. As long as we can get it in her mouth it will go down, however getting in is sometimes a change. This month she developed a deep and abiding love for bread in any form. While in Cuba we would keep her quiet during dinner with buns, at first we would give her little pieces but by the end of the trip we would just rip it in half and she would go to town. I also tried her on liver, YUCK!! I won’t eat it but she seems to like it, apparently both Jeff and I grew up on the stuff but neither of us will touch it now. Since we have returned from Cuba I have started giving her some cheerios or fishies in a Tupperware for a snack on the floor and during meals I give her a spoon with abit of food to play with while I feed her. The cheerios and fishies all end up on the floor and are eaten from there and the Tupperware turns into a drum, oh well I’ll keep trying. On the spoon front at first as you can imagine it was very mess with food all over and lots of pinching the food with her fingers. After a couple days of food flinging she started to catch on and now she gets the spoon into her mouth and as long as the consistency of the food is thick enough the food gets in too. For now I just refill her spoon for her and give it back to her, she usually gets one spoon in for every three of mine. I have not started giving her bowl privileges yet and if the cheerios and fish are any indication she won’t be getting the bowl for quite awhile. This month Meals also swam in the ocean and played in the sand for the first time, what fun. I think she quite enjoyed her first hot vacation and thrived on all the attention she received. She is quite the little ham with smiles for everyone.

Amelia - 10 Months

If you look close you can see the little nubs of teeth.