10 Months

Well, Melanie is 10 months old! Last week. :) Better late than never, right?

At 10 months, our little girl is a bundle of happy giggles and squirms. Here are some of her favorite things:

Melanie is usually a great eater. She loves her veggies and likes most fruits now, too. We have been giving her more and more finger foods, and some days she refuses to eat from a spoon.

She's been a pretty good sleeper, but she's been getting up early.

She crawls, bear crawls (if she is on hard floors or is wearing a dress that her knees get stuck in), cruises, and can now stand on her own!! She does squats all day long, so I'm sure her first independent steps aren't too far away now.

Melanie loves music and will usually bob her little head to the beat.

"Dad" is her first (and only) word! On Sunday, Spencer helped to pass the Sacrament and every time he walked by our pew she would watch him and say, "Dad. Dad. Daddy. Dad!" It was pretty cute. And very distracting. She mimics a lot of other sounds and words, but I don't think she's really knows what they mean yet. When we call Dad and I tell her to say, "Hi Grandpa!" she goes "Gaaaamba!". Momma still comes out as "mbaba".

She just cut her second tooth! She now has both bottom incisors, and I suspect she is working on her top teeth.

She did great with Daycare and still loves strangers. Whenever we have people over she is not shy about getting in their faces and demanding they hold her. She has also been able to spend a lot of time with both of her Grand Haven Grandparents this last month. Mom comes here almost every Thursday to watch her for us so we can study (though Spencer is out of classes now, so she just comes to visit) and Melanie loves it! Spencer's Dad also stops by about once a week still, and that makes her pretty happy.

Now that Spencer is done with his classes for the summer, she gets to stay home with him all day, and I think that has been really fun for both of them. She just adores him. When he spreads his arms and says, "Melanie, can I have a hug?" she crawls over as fast as she can and burrows her head into his stomach or gets her little arms around his side and snuggles in. :)

Melanie is a little ball of sunshine in our lives. She keeps us happy.

 She still loves to hang out at this window. She also loves to run away when we are trying to get her dressed.

 She was waiting for some of my friends to come over one day.

 

Sometimes she puts a sock in her mouth and crawls around. Silly girl. :)

 She is interested and a little nervous about Cosmo when we go to Grand Haven.

She absolutely loves Brigham! I love this picture of them.

 Grandpa came to take her for a walk one day! She really loves going for walks these days, too. Just being outside makes her happy. She's usually happy.

 And Grandpa read her some stories. Love.

Her daycare had a mismatch day, so I had fun getting her dressed. :)

 She's messy.

 And she loves it.

 Watching the rain.

 We went to Grand Haven for father's day (Spencer's first weekend after finishing his school year), and we took the boat out!

 Here we are at the dock, waiting for them to come pick us up.

 I like this one. :)

 She has no idea how much everybody adores her.

 She really enjoyed watching Brigham and his friends tubing. I was surprised at how well she did on the boat, but she just held on tight and grinned the whole time.

I am like 4 months behind on pictures before this post and even further behind on regular posts. Sorry. This blog isn't dead, it's just hard to find time for it with everything else going on. :(