Self Feeding

Life is getting easier for Mom because you are starting to get better at feeding yourself. Today Mom let you have the pouch of food after half of it was gone. You are working on lifting and drinking it on your own. You did a great job!

Shake Shake Shake

This morning you went to the ward music class. You love being around other babies and toddlers. Each week you get a little better at not sucking on the instruments and actually making music.

Napoleon

You went to visit Great Grandma and Grandpa Hales in Mapleton tonight. Ayrika took you outside to talk to Napoleon the llama. Mom and Dad are glad you like animals since you will be living by Great Grandma and Grandpa soon. Ayrika got a little nervous when Napoleon got close.

Aunt Andrea's Shower

Tonight was Aunt Andrea's baby shower. Soon you won't be the only grandchild and you will have your first cousin. Baby Jensen is coming sometime at the beginning of October. You love sitting on Andrea's belly.

A couple weeks later you went to one more of Andrea's showers.

10 Months

We are in the double digits now, you are 10 months today.

Lately you have been sleeping around 11-12 hours a night. Usually you will go down at 8 and wake up around 8. If you are cranky from your teeth coming in, you will wake up once to cry.

Naps this month have been here and there, lately you have been napping twice a day and usually for an an and a half to two hours each time.

This month you finally learned how to crawl. You crawl everywhere and you are fast! You still use your right leg to propel yourself. Occasionally you will crawl normal.

Mom went through your clothes and you are still in 9 month or 6-12 month clothes. Your shoes are all still too big for you. You can wear your smallest pairs, but they still have room in the toes.

Two of your favorite "toys" are the saline nose drops and the sunscreen face stick. Who needs a big bucket of baby toys when you have those to play with?

You just started making the cutest little whistle. When you get excited your close your lips into a little O and breathe in and out fast and it makes a little whistle sound.

When you go on walks with Mom, we stop and see the birds. A house down the road has a bunch of roosters, hens, swans, and other birds. The other day they came out to see us and you screamed with delight.

You went to Lake Powell for the 2nd time this summer. You crawled all over the houseboat, swam in the lake, slept in the ski boat, and enjoyed eating your first Oreo.

You have lots of friends in the ward. You enjoy playing with, sucking on, and stealing all of the other babies toys and binkies.

Mom set you on the scale the other day and you weighed 17.6 pounds with clothes.

You love to eat, and will eat anything put in front of you.

You are taking after your Mom and have a love for reading. You will sit and look at books by yourself for 10 - 15 minutes at a time. You will turn the pages and talk and laugh as you go.

2 more teeth broke through this month. Normally you should get your top middle teeth, but you skipped those and went to the two next to those. You are going to be a vampire baby for Halloween, that or a hillbilly.

If Mom sticks to the schedule your day looks like this: Wake up around 8, nurse and play until Mom is ready to go for a walk. Walk from 9 - 10, and then you come home and nap until 11:30 or so. Then you nurse and have some lunch in your high chair. You play with Mom until 2 or so. Playing includes pulling yourself up on any and all furniture, walking along the furniture, following Mom wherever she goes, playing with your toys, reading books, sucking on anything you can find, and laying on Mom's bed watching the fan. You nap for a couple hours and then play and eat until Dad gets home at 7:30. Say hello to Dad and then you nurse and go to bed.

You are nursing about 5 times a day, about every 3 hours and eat 2 solids meals with snacks throughout the day.

Cheerios

You love having your own chair in the kitchen. One of your favorite finger foods right now is Cheerios.

Visiting the Birds

This month we have been going on walks almost every morning. A house near Orem Community has a bunch of birds that we like to visit. There are swans, geese, chickens, roosters, ducks, and an occasional cat. You love to talk to them, which is usually loud screams and squeals.

Today they decided to come around the fence and visit you.

Lazy Eating

This morning Dad didn't have to work and Mom had some coupons for free breakfast at Chick-fil-A. To keep you happy, Mom broke up small pieces and put them on the table for you to pick up. You decided to just eat them straight off of the table.

Corn on the Cob

At Sunday dinner Mom and Dad feed you bits and pieces of what we are eating. Today Grandma cut you a small piece of corn and you went to town. You loved chewing on it and ate quite a few kernels of corn.

Ward Babies

Tonight you got to play with some baby boys who were born around the same time as you. These boys are some of Mom's good friends. Jack, Olivia, Hudson, & James.

Liesl & Jack (October) Mom & Olivia (November) Brooke & James (December) Jacqueline & Hudson (December)