10 Months Old!

Once again I am slow in getting this posted. :) Briella turned 10 months old on January 12th...hard to believe!

Sweetest Briella, you are now 10 months old and are changing so much! You are such a sweet, beautiful girl and we love you beyond words!

Life in General
You had your 9 month appointment on December 17th and you are doing well, still small but healthy. You weighed in at 16 lbs 7 oz and are 26 inches long.

Eating is such a fun time, watching you try new things and the faces you make. This month you started saying, "num, num, num" while you eat. Ha ha. This is something you started doing all on your own!

Another (not so fun) trick is that you now like to spit food back out. Well, not really spit, but more like squish it back out between your closed lips. Probably feels pretty cool. :) This isn't something we want to encourage, but sometimes it's hard to hide the smiles on our faces. Although, the more you do it, the easier it is to not find it so cute.

New foods this month include turkey, chicken, corn, chunky oatmeal and puffs. You really aren't too keen on the chunkier foods. You'll tolerate a couple puffs, but that is about all. And the chunkier oatmeal is a definite no-go. We'll just try again in a few weeks.

You have also started snorting every now again. Too cute!

Crawling is just around the corner! You are currently working on mastering the army crawl, as well as, getting up on your hand and knees a lot and sometimes up on your hands and feet (looks kind of like the downward dog pose in Yoga. :)).

You've also started pulling yourself up to the shelves to get your books and you pull them off yourself . As well, you have started pulling up on and tipping over your toy bin to get to the toys inside. Sometimes you pull them all out just for the fun of it and other times you only pull a few out and play with them.

We (you and momma) took a little road trip to Glenwood Springs to see Tara (and Aaron and Autumn and Larry and Arla) and to meet baby Abby! That is the furthest that momma has travelled with you by herself and you did wonderfully. You slept most of the way both directions and when you weren't sleeping, you just played and talked to yourself until you got hungry and then we'd stop. What a wonderful time we had spending time with them! I'm really glad we got to go see them before they take off for Hawaii! (And I'm really excited that the next time we'll see them will have to be in Hawaii!)

Firsts

• Snow! You weren't quite sure what to think about how it felt on your hands.
• Christmas! What a fun time as our new little family of 3!
• New Year and all family (on daddy's side) vacation! We spent it up at cabin at LC Ranch with all of daddy's side of the family. It was a ton of fun, although, you didn't sleep well at all.

Pictures from Month 10

I just love all her expressions, so a lot of these pictures are just to capture those sweet faces. :)
 

Love my zebra!

Sweet face.

Christmas morning!

Ha ha ha!

"Um, what?"

 All the pictures with the Broncos headband are during the Broncos playoff game of which we will not ever speak of again. Sigh.

Love these legwarmers! (And the look on her face!) Go Broncos!

With cousin Ashton.

Love being with Daddy!

 

Just chillin' in my high chair.

Such a happy girl!

All bundled up in the carseat before heading out into the frigid winter air.

"Look at what I can do Momma!"

 

Fun with my new bouncing balls toy.

New talent....getting both legs into one leg of my pajamas while sleeping. Ha ha. (When I unzipped the sleepsack, this is what I saw.)