Ten Months

Two weeks ago Hadleigh Claire turned 10 months. I cannot believe that my little baby is almost a year old! I think she continues to get more fun with each day she grows, and that makes each day with her a treasure.

She has mastered crawling, and is all over the house and into everything. She has begun to pull up onto her knees, but will rarely pull up to standing, although she seems to enjoy standing.

The pincher grab is a new trick, and she enjoys sitting in her high chair eating her string cheese and cheerios. This grab has also become highly useful to suck on and eat other yummy things that she finds on the floor. She especially likes crumbs, leaves, rocks, pennys, and worms. I vacuum the house everyday, but nonetheless I feel like she just goes behind the vacuum and picks up everything the vacuum did not get.

She has graduated to a convertible car seat, which I think is somewhat of a pain, but am getting used to it. Her baby car seat is still out in the dining room, as we have yet to put it away, but HC loves to play in it. She will stretch out with the top half of her body in the car seat and she enjoys pressing the seat belt release button. She could do that for hours on end.

Eating is one of her favorite activities. I am still nursing, but only half the time, the other half she gets soy formula because we think she has some sort of milk intolerance. We haven't noticed any reaction to other dairy products, just milk and ice cream. She continues to love yogurt, cottage cheese and string cheese. We think that we have caught a couple of allergies, one to melon, and one to peanut butter. We are still checking this out, and I plan to talk to the ped when we go in for her 1 year appt. For breakfast she generally has super porridge, which consists of oatmeal, lentils, egg yolk, sweet potatoe and green beans. For lunch she enjoys yogurt with peaches and ground up pumpkin seeds (she really liked yogurt with pb and banana until I noticed she was having a reaction). Dinner always is a mish-mash of whatever Dada can get his hands on...squash, carrots, apples, broccoli, etc. This month she is looking forward to trying whole grain pasta.