Ten months old!

Sweet Audrey is ten months old today! We have already started planning for her first birthday party, which just doesn't seem possible! Here is what she's up to these days:

- She started to officially crawl a couple weeks ago! She had been getting around by scooching herself across the floor (our pediatrician calls it "commando crawling") but is now going about it in the traditional way. There is a video of her crawling at the very end.

- Audrey can also pull herself to standing and go from laying down to sitting up. She is also trying to go from laying down to standing by doing the yoga position 'downward facing dog'! You can see this briefly at the beginning of the video.

- Audrey has two primary motivations: 1) Ellie and 2) food. She will find a way to get anywhere if it involves one of those two. If you notice in the crawling video below, we got her to do it by putting a bowl of Cheerios at the other end of the rug!

- Audrey is primarily eating table food now. She loves pasta, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, peas, green beans, carrots, Cheerios, Gerber Puffs, and soy yogurt. She is still nursing or having a bottle four times a day, although we will be trying to cut back on that soon. We have been working on drinking from a sippy cup for several weeks now and she is just starting to get the hang of it.

- Audrey finally got her third tooth. She has had her two bottom teeth since six months and recently got one on top.

- Audrey has figured out how to smack her lips. She does it to tell you she's hungry and also to give you a kiss.

- Another big transition has been that she now points with her finger rather than her whole hand. And she mostly does this to get the things mentioned above as her primary motivations!

- She is responding more to 'no' and answers 'no' as well.

- Her favorite things - the swing at the playground, the bunny that she sleeps with, the tags on her toys, books, her large table top toys, and baths.

- What Audrey does not like - wearing socks, having her nose wiped, having her face cleaned, and being told no.

- Audrey has a very "spirited" personality. She is assertive and lets you know what she wants (even more so now because she can point and she tell you no!). She appears to have a very different personality than her sister and is already giving Ellie a run for her money!

- Her growth is slowing down a bit. She now weighs between 22 and 23 pounds. She has been slimming down a little bit, especially in her face and neck, since she started moving more.