10 Months

Abby turned ten months old on Saturday!  Hard to believe she's almost a year old; the time has flown by and crawled by at the same time (confusing but it makes sense to me). 

At ten months Abby:

- loves to play peek-a-boo! When she sees a burp rag or her blankie she gets excited and puts it on her head like she's trying to cover herself.  Then she'll let it stay there for a good 5 seconds before pulling it off so you can say 'peek-a-boo!' and then she'll do it again (and again, and again, and again!)
- LOVES her Daddy (this sounds familiar)! 
- Loves Gabe and usually wants to be where he is, playing with whatever he's playing with.  I tell Gabe that she gets into his stuff because she thinks he's so cool, but somehow that doesn't mollify him.
- (oh yeah, she loves me too, if her following me around the house and wanting to be held all the time is any indication.  Somehow it seems a little egotistical to put that my child thinks I'm wonderful at the start of the list - but then again, what is a blog if not an exercise in egotism?  Next time I think I will list myself first!)
- only has five teeth, yet has been teething for 6 months (awesome).
- is definite about what she wants/likes/doesn't like. 
- usually prefers to eat finger foods by herself rather than eat baby food from a spoon (although tonight for the first time in a long while she ate an entire pouch of chicken/pasta/veggie baby food that she let me feed to her...I was amazed!)
- will wriggle and wiggle to turn herself around in your arms so she can look out at the world or get down and get moving.  Or - she'll push herself away from you in your arms so she can play with your nose, or mouth, or hair, or necklace.  She's cuddly when she's tired, but otherwise prefers to be on the go.

Overall Abby is a spunky baby who is either being adorable or making me want to pull my hair out - sometimes at the same time (again, confusing but it makes sense to me)!