she is 100% a daddy's girl and I love it!

I HEART BEING A MOM

Well our little ham has been in our lives now for 10 months :) and what a great and fun and loving 10 months it has been! Faye has changed a lot but stayed consistent. She naps twice a day now (and they are finally up to 1.5 to 2.5 hrs each!, still goes to bed between 530 and 6pm each night (but just so everyone knows I did attempt for 5 weeks to put her down later like 7ish BUT she still woke up at the same time every morning SO I am fine with that and prefer it because I get my evenings and I am def. a morning person :) so we're all happier now and I feel way more confident when I have to explain things to people who look at me oddly (smile), BF's about 4/5 times a day (so so so glad she doesn't reject it yet because I am so not ready to stop :), snacks 3/5 times a day depending on her needs. At her 9th month check up she weighed 17.7lbs and was 28in long :) She loves all kinds of food and the only thing she ever rejected was chicken and now she loves it so as of today she has yet to reject or hate any food, must take after her mom and dad :) She has only had water to drink so far, haven't made the leap to juice just yet...I am not ready :)

The adult types foods she'll eat now that aren't pureed:

• cucumbers
• peaches
• strawberry's
• tomatoes
• blueberries
• watermelon
• toast
• pickles
• grapes (she can now eat them pealed! so no more baby eater!)
• banana's of course but now she can eat straight from the banana I no longer have to mash it or break it into small pieces!

her new favorite toys:

• walker
• teddy bears
• two of her ducks
• freddy frog
• dvd cases
• balls
• my phone and elmo phone
• #1 fave so far...floss! publix which was my least fave has become faye's fave to pull :)

her favorite things to do:

• swing
• vacuum
• swim
• sometimes taking baths but sometimes she wants out after 15min (must take after me lol)
• go for walks or run
• watch "Baby Signing Time" or Raffi
• eat
• swing
• leaves
• hang out with people she knows and other babies
• talking as in cooing and 'gaga-ing'
• being spun in circles
• examining ANYTHING big or small but I am lucky she doesn't try to eat things that aren't toys. Not sure how she learned that but hopefully that won't change. I think her favorite thing to examine are leaves because she can break them in to small and smaller pieces.

new accomplishments

• well our little girl is a walking a walking a walking..She totally loves it. She finally discovered a few weeks ago how the sit-to-stand walker works and so she has fun with that for a little while. It's weird that it came after walking but it's oober cute to watch her use it to get places.
• she has said "dada" 4 times. 3 of the 4 times happened about 4 weeks ago on a Thursday night and then she said it one more time a week ago Saturday...so not a fluke; it was clear as day because her baby talk is really baby talk there are no types of ma's or letters being used just plain cooing but we're working on it still :) and I am in NO RUSH :)
• She cannot sign but I sign with her all the time, since she was about 4 months or so, give or take. Anyways she knows the words: cereal, milk, outside, cracker, water, book, duck, ball, banana, more, and bear...we're working on sleep and bath. but again this is me signing and her responding not signing.

Faye is such a huge blessing and we are so lucky, she has a sweet and cuddly spirit who I feel will truly be a huge blessing in those she comes into contact with. She makes us want to have 6 more kids because she is just so easy, fun, and happy! I pretty much have let her go anywhere and do anything since she was able to roll or crawl and for the past few months stepping into walking. I try to not limit her in her exploring and so I don't really use gates that much and haven't baby proofed much at all. I don't know I guess after hanging out with faye a lot I just find I really don't want to not let her do anything and germs shouldn't hold her back (for the most part) because a lot of things we touch are just as dirty as a leaf or anything that may be on the floor. So that being said I think I really love the Montessori schooling idea. I think I have only told her no to biting my shoulder and when she trys to investigate her dirty diapers. lol. She has gagged while eating some foods which freaks me out but I am getting better at being calm...she got something stuck in her throat think 2 times so far which was scary scary but part of being a mom and baby I think and I am getting better at catching it before it happens and she is learning more and more how to chew the food so really she is gagging less and less every day. I am sure she is feeling way more happy about that.

She will got to strangers but not her uncle Andrew for some reason...not sure why lol but it's kinda cute LOL.

These were taken on Easter but are the newest I have uploaded :) I'll try and add the newer ones later.

Sorry to write so much I just feel as though I haven't blogged in a while and I feel behind in that. But luckily that is all I am behind in :) oh well I am behind in grocery shopping but what's new about that LOL. Well I am going to run I got my family to hang out with!!! sounds great saying that :) I love the summer :)