Happy 10 months to our favorite little girl!

Caroline hit the big double digits amidst all the football playoff hoopla. I cannot believe she is two months away from turning ONE! Someone said to me that ONE = toddlerhood. As in, no longer my baby. I can’t even handle that, so I’m not going to try. I am though, going to celebrate how much fun she is becoming.

This last month was special to Mike and me because we got to spend so much time with Caroline. Basically we were with her in FL for a good chunk of December and then Mike was home with her for the rest of the year, plus toss in a couple of Snow Days and we got a lot of QT with this little Sugar Bear.

Here is a snapshot of Caroline at 10 months:

• She is still an amazing sleeper. She does enjoy her routine of dinner, bath (every other night), jam jams, nursing, and she is OUT usually by 7:45 and doesn’t stir until the next morning between 7:30-8. Some days we even have to wake her to go to daycare!
• She eats, eats, eats allllll the things. We are trying to be a little more adventurous and realize she is ready (it’s us). So we started giving her diced food, Cheerios, and letting her practice feeding herself. She excels in self-feeding 😉

• She is on the move! We had to get the baby jail from Joy and we set that up in our living room. She loves playing in there as long as you are there too!
• She crawls and will pull up on your legs. She will challenge you to a crawl race down the hall in the basement and if you’re lucky she will even give you some of her very best pirate grunts along the way.
• She loves the remote control. It makes me crazy that Mike lets her play with it.
• She loves one of the shunned “noisy” toys that says “Peek a boo! I see you!” when you open and close a little door over and over and over…
• When nursing, she will take a break, pop up, lean over and try to grab my phone/a pacifier/ Kleenex from the little table in her nursery. Then she will giggle and sink back down, resuming nursing. She finds this game hilarious and will do it 10 times if I let her.
• She loves her bath and the toys that Kay Kay and Pa gave her at Christmas. She especially loves the red starfish. Maybe we have a favorite color on our hands??

• She also loves the “Global Babies” board book that my aunt and uncle gave her for Christmas. She loves pointing at all of the babies and grunting…it is so cute to watch!
• She really does love stuffed animals. I think because they are so soft? She like to touch them delicately with her index finger. When she does this, Mike calls it “ET.” She is very interested in touching things with the very tip of her little baby finger—your fingertip, bubbles, specks of dirt, Cheerios, Finny’s nose.

Mike’s family sent Caroline a lovely collection of books—Wodney Wat is weally cute, BTW…I hadn’t heard if it before but it’s a keeper.

And we haven been upping our reading game to make sure we hit 5,000 books by Kindergarten. Yes that is Mike using Baloo as a recliner.

Caroline also enjoyed hosting Roman Noodle over for a New Year’s Eve Eve get-together. Here they are discussing their  2018 New Year’s resolutions. Roman is confiding his worry that he won’t be able to kick his milk habit. Caroline is trying to be supportive, but she too is skeptical.

Here is a Snow Day “power clashing” outfit. And yes, we must always be holding SOMEthing in our baby hand.

And last but not least, a baby sneeze. Because what’s cuter than catching a baby mid-sneeze? She looks like she’s directing an orchestra!

Happy 10 months, Sugar Bear!