10 Months

Two bottom teeth!

10 months and Ida is starting to put on weight again! She has gained a pound this past month and is now 14 lbs 13 oz and still 26 3/4 inch tall. So she's starting to get some of those fat rolls back. I can't believe in 2 months she is going to be a year old. It goes so fast... I also think she is just so small that she doesn't look like she is going to be a year old. She is still wearing 6 month clothes and they are fitting her about perfect right now and wearing size 2 diapers which are still huge on her. Haha

Ida's personality this past month has just really flowered. She is turning into quite the character and loves to ham it up as much as she can when she has an audience. Especially if they are laughing at whatever she is doing.

She is still such a happy, easy baby. She is so content and we still carry her around in the car seat where ever we go because she is so good in it and will fall asleep in it. Also Jacob and Ida have really starting interacting with each other this past month and I find Ida

 following Jacob around to be apart of whatever he is doing and Jacob trying to include her and play with her (usually very roughly) on a regular basis. And Ida is starting to not mind Jacob rough housing with her as much as she used to. As long as she is in a very happy mood. If not, then she still hates Jacob invading her personal space and getting in her bubble. She still hates people grabbing/touching her hands as well. I wonder if it will be hard to teach her to sign because she won't let me help her do the signs. She can still go from very happy to very upset and via versa on the flip of a dime. When she's upset it escalates very quickly. But as soon as you fix whatever her problem is she also calms down very quickly. She has starting throwing fits a bit for attention. Mainly just when she is in a bad mood or hungry and you tell her no she'll throw her head to the ground. Also when she is in a bad mood everything is taken to the extreme. When she slightly hits her head on something its like the worst thing ever. Even if it didn't really hurt. At this stage its all just still funny. :) She has also figured out how to walk forward in the walker! I'd really like it if she was walking by a year. But if not... Especially by the time baby #3 comes.

Some fun things Ida is doing right now is giving high fives, blowing, clicking tongue, crossing her legs when she is playing or in the car seat, playing with her teeth, climbing up the stairs and walking along the furniture. She starting climbing up the stairs a couple weeks ago and we have been really working with her to go down them on her own but she hasn't caught on yet. She starting walking along the furniture and has been letting go while she's standing next to it for a few seconds just a few days ago. She seems to be getting more confident at letting go of the furniture and standing more and more. Her balance is getting pretty good. Ida has started playing with her two bottom teeth with her fingers and nails. She loves to click her nails on her teeth. It is super cute! I really want to get it on video. Ida's yelling still hasn't changed much. She is just loud. Not angry, just loud.

Ida is eating very well but I have decided this girl gets hangry! If she is hungry and you aren't giving her food then she is NOT happy. She yells the most during meals if you aren't feeding her fast enough. She has decided she doesn't really like eating hard crackers, or puffs, or cereal. I think she just gets impatient eating them because they take so long to break down. Nursing has been going well but we have started supplementing with formula pretty regularly. My milk supply has dropped a lot. And I think we are going to start introducing whole milk to her. I asked the pediatrician today and he said from a medical perspective he was required to tell me to wait till she was 12 months. But from a person talking to another person he thinks it will be fine and I will just join an already large pool of women who don't wait to introduce it till 12 months. But he didn't tell me that. :) So I think I might start giving her an ounce or two a day and see how she does with it. I am also contemplating weaning her from nursing completely. But we'll see how I'm feeling this month. Ida likes to slouch in her chair a lot while she eats.

The beginning of this month was horrendous for sleeping! Once Ida learned how to stand in her crib she refused to sleep in it. She would go a whole day without taking any naps and she was very grouchy! I didn't know what to do. I was beyond sleep deprived. I know this is a phase every baby goes through, but it was so much worse with Ida then it was with Jacob. He eventually figured it out and would lay himself back down and go to sleep. Ida never would.

She would stand or sit in her crib for over an hour just screaming. I wondered if it was because she didn't know how to sleep on her stomach and so she couldn't figure out how to lay herself back down onto her back. And it didn't matter how many times I went in there and laid her back down. One day, after about a week of awfulness.  I decided to try laying her in my bed with pillows around her to see if she would go to sleep and she went right to sleep. It was at that time that I put pillows in her crib to prevent her from being able to roll over and her sleeping has been great ever since! Also... Something I had decided was never going to happen... She is currently sleeping through the night!!!!! YAY! I'm so excited! I don't know why she went from waking up 2-3 times a night to sleeping through the night be hey... I'll go for it! She still has the pillows in her crib but has now figured out how to roll with them in there so she can stand in her crib but she is still sleeping well. She has also, as of a week ago, started sleeping on her side and stomach which I find so cute! I love when they hit the stage they sleep however is most comfortable for them. So now after laying her down for the night, when I go in to check on her before going to bed she has usually moved to the other side of the bed that doesn't have pillows in it and is sleeping on her stomach or side and I love it. I will probably try taking the pillows out soon to see how she does with it.