At 10 months and 2 days, Kaitlyn took her first couple of steps. Once she discovered she could walk without one of us, she was off! This video is the day after she took her first steps:
Life is so much easier with her walking, as strange as that sounds. She is much happier and can even walk over to her toys and entertain herself for stretches of time, which is really nice for me!
One thing that has been really fun this month is that she has started singing with us. We noticed it at church when she would sing with Stephen, but she does it consistently now. You can see the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlwasSXqkrA. She has started singing in the car, but does a higher pitched more sing-songy voice now.
She took her first selfie with my phone. I was letting her play with it on the camera app and she started snapping pictures:
Then Daddy helped
It's been really warm and she has loved being in the water. She has no fear of the water, which is both good and bad. Good because we want her to love swimming, bad because she doesn't understand why she can't just swim away from us.
She continues to love books. The biggest issue is that she chews on them, so much so that she gets chunks of cardboard off. She's gotten good at turning the page and loves the books that have "peek a boo" flaps she can lift up.
She's been a great eater most of the time. She'll try pretty much anything and has been very good at accepting weird textures. She even ate some tuna salad I gave her. But fruit is her favorite, especially watermelon and berries. She usually pulls off the bib, but I usually try to keep it on for at least a little while.
This is her eating a lime at Chili's. She makes these faces, but then goes back to chew on it some more. Same with lemons. I guess she likes sour stuff!
One of the really fun things we started doing this month is play dates with some of my friends at church who have babies very close in age to Kaitlyn. We've been doing it about once a week and it's great for me to be able to hang out with my friends, bounce ideas and thoughts about life with a baby off them, and Kaitlyn has a good time with her "friends." They mostly just play side by side, or steal each other's toys, but she seems excited to see them. Here she is kissing one of the other babies.
Trying to get them to sit near each other and still long enough to take a picture is quite a challenge. Kaitlyn's shirt in this one says "I have a play date." :)
She's been more consistently going to the nursery at church this month, so she gets to see the same kids twice a week. She's done great in the nursery for the most part, and our nursery workers (some of which are the friends who are the play date moms) are really great about texting if she is having a hard time. You can kind of see the side by side play I was talking about here.
This month we had the Fourth of July. Since Kaitlyn goes to bed so early (usually down by 8), we had my family at our house so we could still hang out with everyone after she was asleep. I was sure she was going to wake up with all the fireworks, but she slept through everything. I turned her rain sound up pretty high in her room.
Here she is getting some cucumber from Uncle Ron.
And hanging out with Aunt Sue
My parents
Our family
Kaitlyn loves her Aunt Megan. She would not stop kissing her.
Speaking of kissing, she's really gotten into the whole kissing thing. She kisses her baby friends, family, and (as seen below) the mirror.
Hanging out at the park
Visiting Great Grandma EV. You can see we have a bow in Kaitlyn's hair, it's finally long enough! Not really long enough to need a bow, but long enough to have something to clip to.
Visiting Great Grandma Rae (my dad's mom we call Mama Rae)
Finally got one with her looking towards (sort of) the camera and smiling. You should see the charades we go through during these photo shoots trying to get her to look at us and smile.
We don't know her weight stats because we haven't been to the doctor since her 9 month appointment. According to our scale she is about 18.5 lbs. She's wearing 9 month clothes, but still fits in some of her 6 month outfits, especially the dresses. She's in size 3 diapers and is between a size 2 and 3 in shoes. The 3's don't always stay on her feet, but the 2's are too hard to get on.
It has been a great summer so far and I've enjoyed being home with her everyday. Quite a contrast to December when I was so overwhelmed with being alone with her. It's amazing what good sleep will do. She goes down around 8 and doesn't get up again until 6 or so, which means I get to sleep, too. Sleep training was one of the best things we've done! She takes 2 naps during the day, usually 1 - 2 hours long. I nurse her when she wakes up in the morning, after each nap, and before she goes to sleep. My plan is to cut out one of the nap nursings when I go back to work in a month, but I'm not going to make any big changes until I've been back to work for a while.
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