10 Months

Rachel is 10 months old today. I can't believe that she is going to be 1 in two months. I look forward to my weekends even more these days because I know that I can spend an entire 2 days straight with her.

I have been trying to get a tooth picture for weeks now and I finally did it this morning. My camera is slow and so if she is showing me, by the time it takes the picture, she moves...or by the time I go and get the camera, she is decides she doesn't want to show me anymore. She has two teeth on the bottom and still nothing on top. She has been biting things really hard these days, so I think more may be coming soon.

One of her new things is clapping for herself. If she does something that she is proud of, she claps and says "Yeaaaaaaaaah!" When we clap with her, it makes her even more happy. It is so adorable.

Yep...standing on her own.

She pulls herself up on everything. She will let go pretty often. As long as she pays attention to what she needs to grab back onto, she is fine. If she forgets that she is standing and then remembers, she will probably fall. Often, when she is standing on her own, she claps for herself and then grabs back on. What a big girl!

She puts her hands on her hips a lot. A lot of the time when she does it is when we have just taken something away that she shouldn't have and she is pouting. She definitely has a lot of character.

She got a cookie (teething biscuit) tonight after dinner. It has become really hard to feed her baby food these past couple of weeks. All she wants is grown up food. Too bad for her that I stocked up and she will have to keep eating it until it is all gone. As she would open her mouth to take a bite of her cookie, I would stuff in a bite of sweet potatoes. It was the only way I could get her to finish her dinner tonight. While I cooked dinner, Tim got to clean her hands. I am not sure who won on that trade-off, but I think she still has cookie in her eye-brows!