Lia is ten months old today, and she's grown up a lot in the past month:
- I got her out of her crib a couple of weeks ago, and as I did she said her first word to me, which was "bum bum." You can imagine the laughs she gets from her three older siblings whenever she says "bum bum."
- Since that day she has also said "mama." She says "uh oh" when she crawls near the books on the bookshelf, probably because that's what I say to her when she gets close to the books. Kevin went to put her down for a nap, and she looked at her crib and said, "uh uh." And she beams with delight whenever she says any of these four things and we recognize that she said something we understand.
- She had one tooth for a while, and she looked like a little hillbilly. Her second tooth finally popped through recently.
- She pulls herself up wherever she can. She loves walking along the couch and the lower shelves on the bookshelf.
- She also loves to climb the stairs. This week I could hear her crawling around by me in the kitchen and then all of a sudden the downstairs got very quiet. When I went to find her, she was about four stairs up. So the next thing we'll be trying to teach her is how to go back down the stairs.
- She's completely bottle fed now, and she refuses to hold her own bottle. She totally can, but she won't. I don't mind too much because pretty soon she won't let me hold her anymore, so I'm going to enjoy holding her and feeding her while I can.
- She's back to taking a binky. As soon as I quit nursing her, she started sucking her thumb again, so I bought her some new binkies that she loves. She is a lot easier to soothe now that she takes a binky.
- And she naps now!! When I nursed her, she would sleep through the night but be up for most of the day. Now she takes a long nap in the morning, and a short nap in the afternoon. Hallelujah!!
I'm amazed at how much she has grown up over the past month. We love this silly girl.
