Book Worm

Natalie and I spent the majority of today reading stories. She kept bringing me book after book to read, and I caught her reading to herself too.

Dancing

10 Months

Today Natalie is ten months old, but don't tell her that. She is pretty certain that she's a toddler already.

At ten months old Natalie:

• weighs about 22 pounds.
• likes turkey meatballs, cheese, chicken, apples, grapes, blueberries, mint chocolate chip ice cream, refried beans, ham, noodles, and bananas.
• hates baby food and vegetables.
• very deliberately drops the food she doesn't want to eat, piece by piece, on the floor. 
• says "tickle tickle tickle" which sounds more like "ducka ducka ducka."
• empties drawers like its her job. 
• has eight teeth - four on the top and four on the bottom.
• loves to be read to. Her favorite story right now is The Alphabet Book. We read it over and over and over. 
• leans over the bath tub as its filling up so that her hand is under the running water. Then she drinks all of the water that she caught in her hand. 
• laughs and laughs - more than ever. She is such a happy baby.
• loves to be chased.
• melts my heart by tugging on my legs when she wants to be picked up, which is quite often. 
• waves bye bye. 
• runs when she hears our bedroom door open in hopes that she'll make it down the hall in time to snoop around in her favorite room. 

Pedicure

Gleaner's 90th Anniversary Parade

We celebrated 90 years of Gleaner combines with a parade this morning. Who doesn't love a parade of farm machinery?

The Fun Parent

How Its Going

Staying at home with Natalie has been so great - better than I imagined. I was worried that I might be bored or lonely staying at home full time, but so far I've been anything but. Yes, my life is much simpler now, but it's also much happier. It has only been three weeks though, so maybe I'm still wearing my rose-colored glasses. Or maybe at home with my girl is right where I'm meant to be.

Bed head courtesy of her afternoon nap.

Lately

Natalie was super excited to see Cora at Alex's birthday party last weekend. Their play time was full of grabbing faces and stealing toys.

Watermelon just might be her new favorite food.

So many new teeth! Hopefully this is at least part of the reason for our lack of sleep lately.

You know you're old when a 6:00 pm solo hair appointment is your idea of a relaxing vacation and when said hair appointment inspires an impromptu photo shoot because it's the first time your hair has actually been fixed in months.