Ten Months Old

Emma celebrated her ten month birthday with croup. She has had a terrible cold for over two weeks and that turned in to croup over the weekend. Thankfully we were able to see the doctor right away and get some steroids to strengthen her body and fight it off. It turned out that is was not too severe which we were very thankful for. Aside from being sick, Emma is weighing in at 22 pounds and slowing down in her weight gain. She is super busy all day long and is into EVERYTHING. This evening Emma started walking on her own without any prompting from us and by bedtime she was walking all over the house. Along with walking, she is talking up a storm. She now says: hi, uh-oh, bye (although I think it might just be hi), up, Mama (but only if she is very frustrated with me) and DaDa. Dada is her very favorite person and she walks around all day with his picture saying Dada and pointing at him. She also points to the window where we watch for him to come home and at the landing and says Dada and I have to respond with "Dada is at work". It is very sweet. She just loves him so much! She is taking two naps of 45 minutes to an hour and a half each and is sleeping 7:30-7:00 each night. Her eating is moving from baby food to table food and her lunches are all finger foods. She is eating a lot of cottage cheese, lunchmeat, cheese, green beans, avacado, peaches, nectarines, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pasta and cheerios. She still loves to drink her water and her favorite food right now is blueberries. Her third tooth pushed its way through this week on the top and she is biting anything she can get her teeth on. Another favorite activity is playing with the pictures in magnets on the fridge and she still gets so excited over Sam's pictures and videos. Emma also has started pointing to things if you ask her to find someone. She can accurately identify Mama, Dada, Sam, Grammy, Poppa, Puppy and Cat. Emma is just so much fun right now and we are so blessed by the Lord to have this precious little girl in our lives.

With Emma having been sick for the better part of two weeks, I have not taken many pictures but will post more soon. Here are a bunch of videos of what she is doing now. Enjoy!

Here is Emma at the end of her lunch. This was a very clean ending to a meal. She enjoys running her fingers through her hair and getting all of the food in it.


On Sunday I set Emma down to take off my shoes and she started to climb up the stairs. Since we live at the top of the stairs, she never is around stairs and had never tried to climb them before. She crawled right to the top!



Emma has started playing Peek a Boo with us. She doesn't cover her face completely, but she thinks she does. :) She also plays with me in the car and she hides her face under her duck.



Emma is a true girl! She has learned how to hold the phone to her ear and talk. I was playing with her one day and she picked it up and just started talking.



Emma just loves this cart! She just runs through the apartment and squeals all day long. She is just so much fun and makes us laugh so much.



And here it is...Emma taking steps. Like I said earlier, she started just walking all over tonight, so we will see if that continues tomorrow morning or if she goes back to the cart for the day.