One of the major changes over the past month is Lucy has moved to three meals a day and only 3 nursing sessions. She was really showing an interest in food, especially whatever Jameson and I were eating, so we started introducing a lot more foods and she seems to love it. I can't believe how much she eats! She still loves yogurt but she also eats an entire pack of oatmeal in one sitting, sweet potato fries, eggs, black beans, lentils, whole wheat bread, chunks of cheese, and even turkey meatloaf. I have started giving her little sandwiches with homemade jelly and she seems to like them. Whatever she loses interest in Otis is happy to take care of for her :)
We also cut out nighttime nursing which she doesn't seem to miss. I am sure all the solid foods are holding her through the night. We had a really rough time for a few weeks with Lucy sleeping. She was getting up 5-6 times a night and only taking 20 minute naps during the day. We adopted a new nighttime routine, though, and over the last week she has started getting up only once or sometimes twice.
Lucy is more and more mobile all the time. She gets anywhere in the house now using her little leg shuffle and still loves to practice pulling up and walking around the coffee table. She can quickly get from the living room to the kitchen and loves being able to explore on her own. Just today she was pushing her exersaucer around the kitchen. Still no interest in crawling though I have seen her crawl a few steps in the kitchen.
There are a few new words Lucy is practicing, her favorite being "Whats that?" She will hold her hand up and point to anything and ask. She also loves peek a boo and now says "Boo!" when she pops out. She got a set of rubber duckies for Christmas so has started saying "Duck" when she finds one of them and will look for them when we ask her where they are.
Lucy also started swim class this month. The first lesson she was in the pool for 35 minutes just her and the teacher and she loved every minute. She got dunked under the water twice but didn't cry either time. She worked on blowing bubbles in the water and floating on her back. The second lesson, though, she screamed for 15 minutes before we decided to give up and try again next week. Hopefully she will go back to loving it because we really want her to be comfortable in the water.
Lucy seems to have gotten a ton more hair and is really thinning out from the chunky baby she was a few months ago. She definitely still has some rolls but she looks less and less like a baby everyday and more and more like a little girl. She now has two top teeth and two bottom teeth and I don't feel any other buds in her gums yet.
I really find it hard to believe that she is already ten months old and that in two short months we will be celebrating her 1st birthday. She continues to be my little buddy and I absolutely love that I am able to spend all of our time together. We love to sit and watch her play as she digs through her toybox or comes to join us in the kitchen. She is one of the most loving babies I have ever seen and can not get enough of giving her cousins lots of hugs and kisses anytime she is around them. I feel so lucky to be her mom and and will cherish these last couple of months of baby Lucy before she becomes toddler Lucy.
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