10 months....

....and 7 days. olivia turned 10 months on the 15th so for my own journaling purposes, here are a few tidbits. feel free to not read on. :)

(i know i always put happy, cute pictures of my little tot on the blog, so here is a not-so-happy one. she was OVER the nap and as you can see, was not too happy with me.)

-she sleeps 10-12 hours (and an occasional 13!) a night no problem. i am so thankful for this.

-lately, she hates to be fed. she wants to hold whatever she's eating. this has required me to get a little creative with what she and her 2 teeth can eat for meals. even if i try to give her something tasty and non-baby food, she won't buy it if it's on a spoon. i tried to give her some delicious buttery mashed potatoes that i ordered solely for her the other day at a restaurant, but she refused them off the spoon. so instead the plate sat on my lap and slowly the mashed potatoes still disappeared. weird. (this isn't all the the time of course, because as you can see, our little chub eats just fine. she just thinks she's too busy to be fed like a baby i guess.)

-she loves her daddy and when she hears him stomping up the stairs after work, she goes nuts.

-she says "ha!" when i'm on the phone and is always saying "oohoooooooohh" at random times.

 -she says dada and mama but never on command. only when she feels like it or is very sad.

-she LOVES other babies and kids. it's almost embarrassing for me like she has never been socialized or something. she literally starts crying in the grocery store when she spots another baby, they have a little chit chat, and then the new friend heads toward another aisle, leaving us behind. how rude!!

-speaking of the store, she is a good little helper. she loves to sit up front and examine all our purchases. i've started buying the kids yogurt for her and it has little dumb cartoon pictures on it, and she will seriously stare at them each individually like they are little mini TV shows.

-she waves at everyone but it's not a pretty wave flowing through the air anymore. it used to be. now she just holds up this stiff arm salute at EVERYONE and won't take it down until they respond. (can you tell she is like #1 queen bee around here??)

-she loves the binkie but doesn't ever go completely ballistic for it so i'm glad to see she's only maintaining a moderate addiction. 

-she is TERRIFIED of yo gabba gabba. she doesn't watch that much TV but she will last for a little viewing of mickey mouse clubhouse or something... and sometimes yo gabba gabba comes on after. it is SO sad. i might just have to be the worst mom ever and stage an "incident" so i can record it. she buries her face in her blanket and just starts crawling away crying. i don't know what it is. the music? the host in the orange outfit? the scary weird puppet creatures? it's all a little scary so i guess i don't blame her. but it is pretty sad/funny.

-she is into EVERYTHING lately. emptying, unstacking, dumping, pulling, pushing, slamming...all that. oh and she loves the bathroom. she is always eyeing me to see if i'm not looking so she can make a beeline for the toilet. i've literally seen her look at me and then look at the bathroom and then back at me...and then cue the sprint crawl. lately i feel like i am constantly chasing her away from cords by the TV only to be trailing her to the trash can that she'll try to find a snack in. anyway.

-she loves animals. any chance she has to maul a cat (she has done this several times) or attempt to get too close to my parents' bulldog, she's all for it. it's always a kind of panicky fun, though. any minute could be a turn for the worse and she's always nervously laughing. she just loves a good thrill, i guess?

-she just recently started doing this fishy face that is so cute. it makes me look really fancy when i tell her to "do a fishy face" and she does it, even though she doesn't even know what i'm talking about and she started doing it on her own. maybe some sort of teething remedy?

-she gives the sweetest hugs (and occasional kisses when she feels like it), but if she's too busy playing to give you one, she just cocks her head (pretending to rest on a shoulder i guess?) to the side and smiles... a little pseudo-hug from a distance.

-she tries desperately to stand up via some crazy downward facing dog yoga position and gets very mad when it doesn't work. probably not the best approach to hoisting that little bod to the upright position. :)

so far, she loves the beach and the pool which make me so beyond happy...hopefully it lasts and hopefully i get her in swimming lessons asap since she has no fear.

ok, this was kind of a lot of stuff but a successful journal entry for me! happy 10 months to our little (big) baby!