10 months old!

The months just keep passing us by, and now our little Harper is 10 months old.  It is so much fun to watch her learn and grow. She definitely keeps Jason and me entertained :)

Growth: She weighs around 18 1/2 pounds.  She's definitely made up for the slow weight gain between 4 and 6 months!  

Teething:  She cut one top middle tooth on July 1st and the other top middle tooth cut through a couple days later.  Thank goodness!!  I think the top teeth bothered her a lot more than the bottom two.  

Sleeping:  She still sleeps 10-10.5 hours at night and takes two naps a day.  There were a couple weeks in which she really resisted going to sleep for naps.  I thought I was going to lose my mind.  But then she cut the top teeth, and I started putting her down for naps a little sooner than I had been, and it got much, much better.  I can not even begin to tell you what a relief that is.

Eating:  Remember how I was worried about Harper not eating solids?  Yeah, Jason and I laugh about that now.  This girl can eat!  There was even one day last week that she crawled to her high chair and started whining before I had gone into the kitchen to make lunch.

There are some things that she doesn't want to try {like oranges in particular}, but the majority of the time she will eat what I give her, and I mostly give her what we eat.  Her favorite foods include grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken, meatballs, ground beef, cantaloupe, watermelon, bananas, corn, peas, Cheerios of course... I'm sure I'm missing a few here.  She's even eaten salmon.  

As for nursing, she's down to 4 times a day now that she's eating 3 solid meals a day.  She nurses when she wakes in the morning, when she wakes up from each nap, and at bedtime.  And I've started giving her a sippy cup of water after each meal.  She loves the sippy cup, but she doesn't drink that much.

Milestones:  Oh goodness, where do I begin...  Harper started carrying toys with her when she crawls; she can climb in and out of the little chair in her room; she can pull up on her feet {but doesn't do it all the time.  I guess she can get to most things by just getting on her knees, like in the photo above.}; she claps-- all you have to do usually is say "yay"; she mimics things we do, like shaking our head "no"; she can stack her rings on the stacker; she pushes herself backwards on the little riding toy; and I have heard her say "bye bye" twice {while waving!}.  


I can't wait to see what she has in store for us this month :)