MADELINE AT TEN MONTHS

Weight: Heavy  Height: Tall
Eyes: Blue   Hair: Cinnamon

Highlights from her tenth month:
Started crawling really quickly  – 11/12
Got her third tooth (top center left) – 11/23
Got her fourth tooth (top center right) – 11/24
First Thanksgiving –  11/27
Says Dad for the first time – 11/29

Madeline is pulling up on everything and wants to crawl up the stairs non-stop. She’s very strong and fearless. She can climb up 11 steps with someone behind her. She has also shown interest pulling up on the side of her crib. I think we might have an escape artist in the not so distant future.

Maddie loves to eat. She had turkey, cranberries and mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving. She’s also been eating waffles, chicken and yogurt drops. When she’s not eating in the kitchen, she’s playing on the floor with empty Tupperware containers and boxes that hold Ziplock snack baggies.

She loves sticking out her tongue and mimicking coughs and yawns. She is making a lot of funny noises and babbles quite a bit. Her favorite noise is the “tick-tock” noise in the Frozen song, Do You Wanna Build a Snowman. She waits for it and clicks her tongue along with the clock noise. She really enjoys books and reading together. She’s mastered clapping and claps along with the If You’re Happy and You Know It song.

Bath time is really fun these days. Madeline loves getting baths and crawls from her room to the bathroom and pulls up on the side of the tub, ready to jump in. She loves splashing and kicking the water. When Maddie is happy these days, she smiles really wide, showing off her teeth. Every once in awhile, when something makes her really really happy, she squints her eyes while she grins really wide. It’s probably the cutest thing in the whole world. She giggles when playing games and being silly. She still loves looking at pictures. The pictures that have her in them are still her favorites! She has really taken to routines where she says hi to certain things around our home and at Grandmum’s house.

Recognize this hat? It finally fits 😉

The best way to celebrate

MADELINE AT NINE MONTHS

Weight: 19 lbs 11 oz  Height: 29.8″
Eyes: Blue   Hair: Cinnamon

Highlights from her ninth month:
First trip to D.C.  – 10/15 – 10/17
(First hotel stay, metro ride, museum visit)
First dinner at a nice restaurant (DCMX) – 10/16
First trip to a pumpkin farm – 10/18
First time trying to climb the stairs –  10/19
Attended Great Nana’s 90th bday party – 10/25
Attended her first naming ceremony – 10/26
Stood up in her crib for the first time – 11/1
Mastered going up the stairs – 11/7

We had a great time in Washington D.C. on our first family vacation. We visited the Museum of Natural History where Maddie went into a butterfly garden for the first time. All of her practice looking at butterflies in Grandmum’s yard paid off. She watched all of them and didn’t attempt to grab any of them. We walked all around D.C. and enjoyed the beautiful fall weather. We saw the White House exterior, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War Memorials. We visited the Museum of American History and the Air and Space Museum, where we enjoyed a planetarium show hosted by Elmo and Big Bird.

Maddie has started babbling a lot, especially during meal times. She’s making a lot of bababa noises. She’s started eating chickpeas, quinoa, mum-mum teething biscuits and puffs. She is working on getting them in her mouth herself. She loves holding a sippy cup, but is still getting the hang of drinking from it.