Our Mini Winnie: 10 Months Old

Delaney is 10 months old and seems more like a little kid than a little baby these days. She knows when she's being funny and constantly makes us laugh. She definitely understands some words, like: bottle, hungry, more, nap, mama, dada, noni, grandpa…to name a few. She learned how to clap her hands and claps whenever she's happy or proud of herself. She crawls on her hands and knees at lightning speed - sometimes too fast to keep up with herself, and she trips over her arms and lands on her face (but every time that happens, she always picks her head up with a huge grin on her face). When she sits up, I don't have to worry about her tipping over anymore. She's pulling herself up onto her feet, and she even took her first (assisted) steps as I held her hands! She isn't close to walking on her own yet, but understanding how to put one foot in front of the other is a major accomplishment if you ask me. It's unbelievable how much she has learned in the past few weeks! To me, it seems like Delaney's main focus for the first 9 months was just being the cutest little snuggle bug possible…then within this past month, she has learned and grown so much that I'm constantly amazed by everything she's doing.

Her daily routine has been quite predictable for the past few weeks. She wakes up between 7:00-8:00am… takes 2-hour-long naps around 11:00am and 4:00pm - or sometimes takes one long 3- or 4-hour-long mega nap around noon and that's it for the day… and goes to bed around 8:00pm give or take a half hour, depending on how tired or wired she is. She eats constantly! I give her a bottle right when she wakes up and right before she sleeps, and I squeeze in meals with solid foods 3 times per day. Basically, she eats about every 1 1/2 hours. If I space out her meals any longer than that, she turns into Hangry Delaney and nothing else matters until there's food in her mouth (I can think of someone she might get that from…cough cough Brad cough…).

Laney celebrated her first Easter last weekend and visited the Easter bunny. I was so curious how she would react once she saw the huge, creepy bunny with the oversized head. When we arrived, she stared at him and looked slightly suspicious of him. I was sure she would cry as soon as I sat her down on his lap. She sort of froze and turned to look up at his huge bunny eyes, and then all of the sudden she burst into smiles and giggles and started kicking her legs and bouncing on his knee! She got such a kick out of him! Her first Easter bunny visit was a total success.

Brad's season just ended, so the whole family is back in Madison for the rest of the summer. He is so excited to be able to spend a lot of quality time with Laney, and he's planning lots of daddy/daughter dates around town. His work break came at a great time, since I'm getting bigger and really slowing down. Baby boy Winchester is growing quickly and I couldn't be happier about how much he's kicking and moving around. Hip and pelvic pain are making it a bit more difficult to walk, but I experienced the same thing with Delaney and realized it's nothing a great chiropractor can't fix (I'm counting down the minutes until my appointment with him tomorrow). Less than 3 months to go until we get to meet this little man!

10 months old!