Katy is TEN months!

Kathryn Elisabeth, you are TEN months old now.  Just two more short months and we’ll be celebrating your first birthday.  It just doesn’t seem possible.  I actually already picked out your first birthday invitations this month and I am starting to think about how we’ll decorate as well as getting your birthday outfit all figured out.  I just cannot believe it.  I need time to JUST.SLOW.DOWN!  You are becoming Miss Independent and while that means you’re growing and thriving and doing exactly what you’re supposed to do, it makes mama just a little sad and wishing for these baby days to stick around longer!

Katy, you’re sleeping so wonderfully still.  I dread teething because we’ve gotten so used to you sleeping through the night.  You still go to bed sometime between 7 and 8 at night, depending on when your last nap was and how tired you are.  Most nights its between 7:30 and 8.  You still haven't had any more of the screaming episodes in the middle of the night, which has been great.

You've been doing a great job with naps also.  You’ve been taking 2-3 naps per day and usually at least an hour and a half each time.  Sometimes up to 3 hours at a time.  You do like your sleep!!  You still sleep best when you have a sleep sack, and don't forget the pacifier, you MUST have it to sleep!

Weight - you weighed 18 lbs 10 ounces at a doctor’s appointment this month.  I’ll talk more about that appointment in a little bit.  You had all of your clothes on during this appointment’s weight check, so I think it’s possible that you hadn’t gained much.

Your daily food intake hasn’t been great this month.  We’ve really been struggling to get you to eat your minimum ounces (16) per day.  We’ve tried several things, but nothing seemed to work.  We finally decided to cut you down to 3 bottles per day, hoping that you’d eat your middle of the day bottle better since you weren’t eating but 2-3 ounces during each of your second and third bottles each day.  We figured combining those two feedings may make you drink more.  It didn’t really help unfortunately.  You are eating more baby food at this point though.  You’re finally eating 3 meals a day.  You have a baby food fruit for breakfast, veggie for lunch and you have 3-4 tablespoons of cereal for dinner with your night time bottle.   We cut the yogurt out because it seemed to fill you up so much that you didn’t want to eat for so long after that we really couldn’t get enough milk in you.   You still love puffs, and you’ve enjoyed yogurt melts and teething biscuits this month also.

Now onto your doctor’s appointment.  Mommy and Daddy were really getting worried about you not eating and drinking your bottles, so I took you to the doctor.  The doc thinks that your reflux is the problem.  She said to start you back on your medicine.  I had just stopped giving it to you during your 8^th month (I think), but the doctor is convinced that the reflux is the reason you aren’t eating.  You don’t seem to mind taking the medicine right now, and we’ll see if this helps over the next month. 

Clothes & Diapers.  You're in a size 3 diaper still, and they aren't getting too small yet, so you'll probably be there for a little while longer at least.   You’re wearing mostly 9 month clothes at this point, we’ve got you in a few 12 month onesies here and there, but not too many yet.

Katy, you’re all over the place.  Crawling, and pulling up and walking around anything you can pull up on and hold onto.  You will also hold both of my hands and walk with me.  You’re a little monkey too, climbing up on anything you can!  Daddy caught you climbing up on Coop’s picnic table, and then the next day Sissy and I caught you doing it too.  You were just hanging out – playing with Cooper’s stickers while standing on the picnic table seat.  If we let you, you’ll climb to the very top.  Such a climber already.  We’re really going to have to watch those stairs!

You’re big beautiful eyes haven’t changed colors completely – and I’m wondering if they will.  They seem to be a greyish color right now, not really hazel and definitely not a true blue either.  I guess time will tell.  You still have no teeth.  We think they’ll come soon, but then again, we’ve thought that each month! 

You are still a mama’s girl, but you don’t cry much when around others.   I think you only cry for me when you’re super tired – when I get you out of your crib in the morning, you really want nothing to do with anyone but me, and the same when you’re super tired in the evenings, but you do like your sissy, Cooper, Daddy and Nana.  For some reason, Papa Gary makes you cry.  I’m pretty sure it’s his beard, but you want nothing to do with him.  I know that will change. 

Katy Lady, we are so in love with you.  You are such a persistent little girl, and you make sure to tell us when you don’t like something.  Just like your mama, haha.  You’re laughing so much lately, and your smile lights up a room.   You love your doll babies and your bears.  Your face just breaks into the biggest smile when we bring them to you.  You love to immediately eat their faces.  It’s so fun to watch.  You’re a HAPPY girl, and that makes us so happy.  We love you Miss Kate, to the moon and back, forever and always.

Happy TEN months!