Saturday Mornings

Moving Fast!

I'm crawling (a real and fast crawl now!) all over!! I love the freedom especially when I can follow Brady around the house!

So big!

I'm getting really long for my changing table, but still love hanging out there while mom and dad talk and sing to me after my bath before bed.

My "Duhga"

No one makes me smile and giggle quite like my "duhga" Brady. I look for her all the time and know the sound of her coming to see me. She's so good with me now that I'm crawling all around. I'm actually a bit rougher with her than she is with me, but she wags her tail while I "pet" and "pat" her while giggling.

Yay!!! I'm such a happy baby. I play "pat-a-cake" and love when you sing it to me!!

Although mom and dad say "NO!" Brady and I love to "share" my food!!

Brush Brush Brush....

I really dislike getting new teeth, but I really love brushing them. I thought it was hilarious for the first several times. It tickles me and I'm super ticklish!!

10 Months!!

Ten months and growing so fast!! She's more precious, more fun, more amazing to us everyday... and everyday we think it couldn't possibly get better. It does.
She's getting really long and talking a lot now. I won't know official stats until our next Dr's appointment which isn't until 12 months (YIKES!) but if I had to guess I'd say she's about 29 inches long and 18 or so pounds. She really has started to shun baby food and wants to feed herself bits and pieces of big girl food. So she's eating dinner with us these days and that's a whole new adventure but a lot of fun. She's added "all done" to her vocabulary-- she does the sign sometimes, but mostly just jumped right to saying it. She used to clap for "all done" like "YAY! I'm all finished!" and then one day just said it when I was showing her the sign yet again. She has also started to blow kisses and give kisses... big open mouth ones on your cheek while licking you and saying "Mwuuuhhhh". She's signing "more" sometimes and is saying "Ba Ba" while waving Bye Bye. Her army crawl has graduated to a "real" crawl and she can really move. She loves to pull to stand all the time and I'm afraid she might be working on walking soon...

On her 10 month birthday, Nana came to visit and we had a fun day together. Rachel brought Koen over and we dressed the babies up in their matching sweaters and sweater-hats. So cute. Finley wants nothing more in life than to squeeze Koen's face... I guess we all have that reaction to cute baby cheeks! :)

Mommy's Work

Finley has had several ear infections so it was time to "be the patient and the mommy" rather than the professional and take her to my office for a hearing test and then to see the ENT. She did really well... clear ears and normal hearing on that day and no recommendation(s) for tubes (yet!). It was really fun to watch her... and she brought out several of her tricks: signing "dog" for the stuffed dog, dropping things and saying "uh oh". We had a great time. I am so lucky to have such great colleagues who made time in their schedules to squeeze us in (helps to have connections!) :)

Later that day was the BCS Champoinship Game... hence the uniforms in the picture (Chris was decked out in a Gator polo for the appointments also). GO GATORS!! Got Tebow??