10 Months Old!

Our sweet, not so little McKinley is 10 months old! What a fun age :) We love how much she interacts with us! It's been so much fun to see her little personality emerge as she grows into a toddler, and becomes less of a baby everyday! Some fun things about McKinley at 10 months are:

• She's quite the crawler. She's gotten really good at crawling and can crawl at a fast speed! She loves it when Travis or I get down on the ground and crawl around with her, she thinks that's pretty funny!

• She can pull herself to standing and stand on her own for a few seconds. She tries to stand up on any and everything, which gets her into trouble sometimes! She can get into almost anywhere and loves to try and reach things to play with!

• She can open cabinets and drawers, looks like a new round of baby-proofing is in store for our house!
• Her favorite past time is taking things out of a box or a bag or a cabinet or drawer. She loves to take things out one at a time, look at them for a second then toss it aside. Then she takes something else out and repeats the process. It's really cute to watch her, but not so fun to pick up after her :)
  
• She is still little Ms. Social she loves it when people talk to and smile at her. She gets excited and smiles and waves at them like crazy!
  

• She loves it when Daddy comes home, when she hears the door opening she gets really excited and gasps out of excitement. She hurries and crawls over to see him once he walks in the door.

• She has 4 teeth! 2 on the top and 2 on the bottom. She's had them poking at her gums for a couple of months, and finally one day they just broke through. One broke through on the bottom and one on the top. A few days later the other one on the top and the other one on the bottom came through, so in about a weeks time she went from no teeth to 4 teeth!

• She still loves eating. She loves gold fish, graham crackers, bread, fruits, and any other thing we'll give her. She's gotten really good at chewing things up and even bites into things with her teeth. She's not as fond of baby food as she used to be, but she'll still take it which is good so I can feed her meats and veggies which are too hard for her to chew and swallow on her own right now.

• She is a good sleeper! She goes to bed around 7pm every night and sleeps until around 6 - 6:30am (some mornings she'll sleep in until 7 or 7:30am)! She still takes 2 naps a day one in the morning and one in the afternoon, in fact that's what she's doing right now giving me time to write this post :) She sleeps with her "love bug". Sometimes we'll go in to check on her and see she cuddling with it while she's sleeping, it's the cutest thing!

• She has quite the personality! She always has to be moving and doing something! She's so busy! She makes the funniest faces, especially when she gets mad like this one!

• She is still a little sweet heart! She loves to snuggle with me when she's sad, when she's tired or just woke up! She reaches for me and Travis when she sees us because she wants us to hold her! She gets so excited when she sees us when we've been gone for a while! She lays her head on our chest and melts our hearts :)

We love our sweet little 10 month old!