Ellie the 10 Month Old



Our precious little girl is growing so fast! She is still such a happy and easy little baby- although she is getting a little louder and opinionated at times!! 

Updates on Ellie:

Sleep:
Ellie has still been sleeping great!! She usually sleeps from around 7:30 pm to 7 am., and she take two naps a day- usually totally 3/3.5 hours of napping total. She barely ever fusses when you put her down or when she wakes up! She just plays in her crib happily - and chats a LOT! 
She has also been SUPER flexible where she sleeps (El Paso, the McDonnell's house in a pac n play, etc) which has been so nice! She doesn't like sleeping in the car as much, but will occasionally! 
She loves her pacis (2 are kept in her bed only), and still throws them down into her crib when I pick her up (pacis don't leave beds!). She also loves snuggles with her blankie and turing on her soothing-music toys (like the giraffe).  When she wakes up now, she plays with all her stuffed animals and moves everything around her!  

Eating:
She is doing great with food- loves everything! Favorites this month include cottage cheese, avocado, rice and quina, ground beef, tuna, and puffs! She hasn't really refused any food, but she won't really eat pouches any more!!! She wants FOOD (Queenie says Barrett was the same way!). Ellie has 4-6 bottles of formula a day (usually around 24 ounces in a day) and also eats 3 meals a day. She loves drinking her bottles in the car so that has helped us get her more to drink! At home, she is often too distracted and ready to crawl off or play to finish drinking her bottle! 

Other Milestones:
- She has become a very fast crawler! She goes all over the house! 
-She has started pulling up on things and 'cruising' around (taking steps while holding on to furniture). She will even go from the couch to the ottoman or the ottoman to my hands, etc... 
-She has continued signing! She signs dog, eat, dada, mama, sleep, bird, and we've seen attempts at many others! She loves trying to copying whatever you do to her (and succeeds at it a lot of the time!).  
- She also started clapping (and says Yayay sometimes) and waving (and often says 'hiii or byeeee very softly while waving!). She is super proud of these moves, and it's so precious!!! 
- Words: Dada, Dad, Bababa, Mama, bye, hi, ahhhhh... we also think we heard some other random words! She babbles a lot (and screams!!). This girl wants to be heard!
- Still no teeth!

Here are a couple videos of her claps, waves, signs, and playing peek-a-boo with Queenie (she did not like when Queenie stopped playing and would yell at her!):
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVIF3vZS6Gc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmjze83dCo

Comparison of boys at 9 months:

LJ.... 


Evan.... 





And more pics of Ellie on her 10 Month Bday!!! 





eyelashes are growing in! 

It's getting harder to keep her cute head bands or bows in her hair!!! She is starting to pull everything down or off :(

Climbing on me always!








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