Updates on Stella

It is just amazing how quickly they grow, I can't believe she is going to be 10 months old this weekend!! She is so smart and I love to watch her as she does everything because you can just see her little mind turning, figuring things out.

Her new things are that she says Mama and Dada when she sees us, as opposed to just when she's playing. So she has definitely linked the words to us. She can blow kisses. She waves Hello and Goodbye, two different waves. She wants to stand all the time and she jumps up and down in your lap if you hold her. When we try to set her on the couch she straight legs us and wants to stand up against the back of the couch instead of sitting.

She loves to have books read to her and when I stop she cries. She watches me as I say every word and she concentrates so hard. I love to watch her face and see her smile as I change my tone depending upon what is going on in the story. Of course she tries to grab the book and rip the pages but I just hold them where she can't reach. We have some of those cloth books and some that are really thick cardboard that she can't rip so I let her play with those.

As far as eating goes she has yet to get any teeth but she eats all of the food groups out of a jar. She will eat her vegetables and meats now. She used to only eat fruit and turn her head for everything else. Lately she seems to be not wanting to drink her bottles but I think that is because her teeth are trying to come up and that is bothering her. She loves anything on a spoon though. We just make sure she gets the minimum amount of formula she needs. I know she won't starve.

I think she is going to skip crawling all together and just go for walking. She reaches for toys and rolls over both ways, she just has no interest in getting up on her hands and knees, she'd rather stand.