10 Months old

Miss Sass

She got the sticker so now she is happy

My last post was only 2 1/2 weeks ago but so much has changed! For example, on 4/9 I walked in to Kinsley's room and saw this: 

Standing after a nap

I totally let her stand there crying while I ran grabbed my phone and snapped a few pics. We lowered her bed all the way down a few weeks later. Kinsley has also mastered crawling! She is pretty fast and very rarely reverts back to army crawling. Just this week Kinsley started pulling up on all the furniture and is even doing some cruising. This girl is growing way to fast! 

At her last appointment the Dr. said she could eat anything, as long as she didn't choke on it and it didn't contain honey she could eat it. We have let her eat pretty much anything and she loves it! She loves feeding herself and won't eat "baby food" anymore. 

She ate the whole frozen waffle!

I am so excited to be going part time next week. I can't wait to have more time to spend with Kinsley. It worked really well for her to go to the shop with Chris when she was younger but now she is getting more mobile and does not like being contained. With the nicer weather coming (wish it was already here!) we will be able to take walks to the shop and meet Chris for lunch. 

I'm not sure what happened to my awesome sleeper but I WANT HER BACK!!! I really don't know what happened. One night she just started waking up in the middle of the night. She isn't hungry and nothing appears to be wrong. She just wakes up crying, I go into her room, give her her wubble (binky), rock her for a few minutes and lay her back down. Sometimes it's just one time through the night, sometimes it's 4 or 5 times. If anyone has any suggestions I'm open to them!

Age: 10 months

Weight/percentile: I'll weigh her next month

Height/percentile: I'll try to get her height too

Head circumference: we'll see about the head

Eye color: Still blue. Some days at the right angle you can see the green come through

Hair color: Light brown. It is starting to get long in the back

Teeth: Where are they!?

Diaper size: Size 2

Clothing size: Mostly 9 month clothes. Size 2 shoes

Favorite food: Kinsley will eat almost anything as long as she can feed it to herself. She loves scrambled eggs, most veggies especially carrots, crackers, waffles, pasta, dry cereal, yogurt, beans, and all kinds of other things. She doesn't really care for fruits so much and won't eat mushrooms or yellow squash.

Favorite activity: Pulling everything out of the diaper bag, dirty clothes, my purse, whatever. She is fast at it  too. She will pull something out and throw it then go for the next thing, then the next. It's kinda funny to watch actually. 

She also loves laughing, especially when I tell her "no". 

Movement: Like crazy. She crawls on her hands and knees, pulls up on furniture, does a little cruising on the furniture, and climbs all over  Mommy and Daddy

Sounds/talking: I love how it sounds like she is having conversation with us. The other day she started crawling down the hall and I said "Where do you think your going?". She said, "Dadda". I told her he had gone to work and she made a squeal like she was sad he left. So funny! 

9 Months old



9 Months

I know this is a terrible picture but Kinsley had a really bad upset tummy and I was not going to chance getting one of her nice outfits dirty. Poor thing was sick for a good 5 days. I took her to the Dr. when she decided to only eat 1-2 oz of her bottle instead of 6! He (not my regular Dr.) said it was just a virus. UGH!
I am kind of slacking this month. We have had a lot going on the past month and a half. We celebrated birthdays, St. Patrick's Day, Easter and just had a baby shower for X""ticia (Jessica and Chad's baby-that's not her real name). We spent a lot of time at the church during the Passion Play that Chris was in.

St. Patrick's Day

Passion Play. Kinsley was a little unsure of Chris with all his make up on.

Easter

Family Easter pic.
Notice Kinsley's little bracelet I made her?

Jessica's shower.

Kinsley is becoming less of a baby every day. It make me so sad but so excited to see her little personality come out. She is still army crawling but is trying to for real crawl. She gets up on her hands and knees and takes two little "steps" then goes back to the army crawl. She is also trying to pull herself up on the couch and her bed. We already moved her mattress down once, may have to do it again. Kinsley is eating all kinds of things and even drinks from a straw! I am trying to teach her a few things in sign language like "more" and "thank you". She uses her own sign language for "more" by pounding on the table!

"I love asparagus!"

"Grandpa let's me finish off his beer"
It was just root beer and there wasn't anything left in the bottle.

Age: 9 months (9 1/2 by the time I get this posted)

Weight/percentile: 17lbs 2oz/ 17th percentile (She lost weight!? Maybe a difference in scales or time of day? The Dr. wasn't concerned)
Height/percentile: 28.5in/ 87th percentile
Head circumference: 16.5in/ 10th percentile
Eye color: Still blue
Hair color: Light brown. The back is darker than the top. She has a little bald spot where her headband sits :/
Teeth: None!
Diaper size: Size 2
Clothing size: She still wears a lot of 6 month onsies but definitely needs the 9 month pants. Her Easter dress was 12 month.
Favorite food: She is starting to get pickier. She used to love bananas and avocados but won't eat them anymore. She ate a whole spear of asparagus one night and loved it. She screamed when I took it away. The Dr. told us to try anything we wanted except milk and honey. So maybe we will try some meats soon.
Favorite activity: She loves walks. The weather has been nice enough lately to go for walks! She also likes playing with the dogs at my parent's house.
Movement: Still army crawling but trying really hard to for real crawl. She loves to throw herself back and look at things upside down. She is squirrely sometimes
Sounds/talking: She says momma! It's more like momomom, but I'll take it! She also says what sounds like "bye" when she waves bye-bye. If you ask her "What does the doggy say?" she makes a high pitched "bark".  She is one smart cookie already!

On my Birthday. 8 1/2 months postpartum

Finding time to go to the gym or do an exercise video at home hasn't been easy. Maybe it's motivation that I'm having trouble finding. I weigh less now than before I got pregnant and wear a size smaller in jeans but I really need to start toning! We are going on a boating trip in June and if you can't tell in the pic, my butt has completely disappeared.  That oughta look real nice in a swimming suit. All in all I am pretty proud of how I look after gaining so much pregnancy weight...until I sit down...