Wordless Wednesday

This is from several months ago, but that's okay.  :)  
Daddy reading to Naomi!  

Wordless Wednesday

Here's another couple random pictures...

Tiny Tots Halloween Class

Wordless Wednesday

Here's another couple random pictures...

Ten Months Old!

Stats?
About 17 lbs (?%), ? in long (?%), and ? cm head circumference.
She's in size 3 diapers and her 9 month clothes. 
(We'll have more complete stats at her 1 year well-baby visit.)


How is she sleeping?
The only big change from last month is that we are completely off the swaddle which is really nice.  We started by eliminating it at nap times a while back and took it away overnights sometime in the last month or two.  I'm glad we waited until she gave us signs that she was ready because it went very smoothly.  


How is she eating?
She loves finger foods and I feel that she will be ready for self feeding soon (though I'm not sure I'm ready for the mess that entails). She also loves her sippy cup and can chug down the contents in record speeds.  During the day, it seems that she prefers the sippy cup over nursing, so we probably need to re-focus on nursing again.  We may also be dropping one of the day feedings soon.  


Doctor Visit
No check-ups until 1 year.  She gets her flu shot booster next month, but that's it.  


What new tricks does she do?
She army crawls.  
She's still good at standing and pulling up on Mommy and Daddy. 
She is what I would call "a novice cruiser".  She walks while holding our hands and she will cruise down the length of furniture, but doesn't quite turn corners on the furniture or transition frequently between objects.  Chasing the cats has been good motivation for her walking skills.  
She waves hello and goodbye (sometimes).  
She giggled so much the other day that she snorted.  :)  
Verbally, she's babbling away.  I keep trying to figure out if she's got any speech patterns, but can't tell yet.  She sorta flaps her arms when she's done eating, so I think that's her sign for "all done".  We're working on signs for "more", "eat" and "milk", but nothing yet.  


General Observations?
Her top two center teeth have broken through and the two on either side are coming in quick too.
I can't believe that it's time to get a jump on planning her first birthday party!!
Where did the time go?!?!?!


Until next time... enjoy Naomi's high kick routine!  

Wordless Wednesday

I've had several blogger friends do "Wordless Wednesdays" and now I've decided to join them as I have some random pics of baby girl that just don't need much storytelling.  I'm also going to try to start posting some of the videos that Brian shoots.  Anyway, here goes a couple...


Dressed up for game day a couple months ago.  Please ignore the drool.  This was when her bottom two teeth were erupting.  

Fall Festival / Halloween

Here are some photos from Halloween and our church's Fall Festival.  The Wednesday before Halloween our church did a big Fall Festival with food, game booths, lots of bounce houses in all shapes and sizes, a petting zoo and a little train.  It was great.  By the time we finished working at our ABF's booth (we had the first shift and it ran a little longer than expected), Naomi was too tired to really be interested in anything.  So, hopefully next year will go better.  We will certainly plan better - take a later shift so that she can have fun first and pass out in the stroller second.  Either way, it was fun to see all the kids in costume having a good time.  

Here are some pics from Halloween night:

And here are some shots of Fall Festival:

Dallas Arboretum - Pumpkin Patch

Brian took a day off between his old job and his new job, so we took advantage of it to use the Groupon we bought to go the Dallas Arboretum.  It was her first trip to a Pumpkin Patch and a great photo op for us.  We also met up with a college friend of mine, Jenny, and her cute daughter, Lily.  It was a fun time.  


So, this post is pretty much just going to be photos.  I'm saving one of our whole family to use on our Christmas card, so I'm not posting the winning shot here yet.  :)