Nora Kate is 10 Months!

As of last Saturday we have a ten month old!  Nora Kate is such a sweet baby!  She still loves to cuddle and be held, but she is getting more and more to where she likes her independence-meaning if you're holding her, she will probably start pushing against you to get down.  She LOVES to be on the floor playing these days which is great since that's exactly where we already spend most of our time with Dawson and Carter!  Nora Kate has had so much entertainment with two brothers constantly moving around her that she's been content to sit and watch for so long...but she's not crawling yet!  She still does her little "booty scoot" as Dawson likes to call it, and she can get to what she wants...but no official hand-knee crawl just yet.  As I mentioned Nora Kate's very favorite spot right now is on the floor scooting around, but thankfully she is still entertained by her Johnny Jumper and walker.  She's hit or miss on the exersaucer-sometimes she enjoys it more than others-I think it is entirely dependent upon what her brothers are doing.  If they are being entertaining enough she's happy to bounce and play while watching them from the exersaucer!

She's trying and trying to pull up and can almost do it!  Some days it seems like she might just pull all the way up and cruise before she crawls!  Nora Kate LOVES to stand and hold your hands!  She gets so excited about this that she bounces her knees up and down!

We are very blessed that Nora Kate is such a happy easy going baby girl!  She's so good to ride along in the stroller or wherever our outing is for the day, and she's usually very happy!!

The big change this month has been in baby food.  Nora Kate is basically done with baby food!  She doesn't want much of anything you feed her from a spoon.  All Nora Kate wants is what she can pick up and feed herself!  She does really well.  A lot of times I think she ends up eating more than Carter!  With ALL the food she's eating, she has started nursing less but still nurses about 4 times in a 24 hour period of time.  Nora Kate is still getting up about 2 times a night, but I have high hopes that this will change over the next two months.

Nora Kate has been saying "DaDa" for a while.  It's so sweet, as soon as John gets home from work the first glimpse she gets of her Daddy, she starts saying "Dada!"  Nora Kate has started saying "Nana" this month too!  And she knows who her Nana is.  She has yet to say Mama...yes, that's right she says Dada and Nana before Mama even though I say Mama to her at least 500 times a day! haha!  She's also been saying hi and bye!  She's started waving some too.  When John asks her where Mama is she always quickly looks at me and smiles, but she just won't say it!

Nora Kate has started dancing to music this month, and I love it!  She gets a big grin and then starts bouncing up and down!

The big "first" for this month was Nora Kate's first trip to the beach, which I blogged about (scroll down) in a separate post.  She was a dream in the van on the way there and back, and she enjoyed all the attention she got from everyone on vacation too!  The sand wasn't her favorite-but if you're trying to learn to crawl are you really going to love sand?!  She did like the pool and riding on the golf cart from the beach house to the beach!  She also LOVED swinging on the front porch swing with her Nana in the afternoons.

One more special thing I want to remember from this month was that Nora Kate got to spend some special one-on-one time with her grandparents.  Not only did she get a lot of time with Nana and Grandad on vacation, when we got back from our trip for 6 nights in a row I had to be at church for VBS!  Thankfully Nana and Grandad and Lolly and Pop took turns keeping Nora Kate at our house those evenings so she wouldn't be up TOO late by tagging along with us at church.  It was nice for Nora Kate to get a little special time with them this month!

Here are Nora Kate's 10 month pictures!  She's SOOO wiggly now that these pictures are becoming increasingly difficult!

 

Nora Kate absolutely couldn't leave her "10 month old" card sitting beside her!  It was way to interesting!

 

"Oh look! Mommy tried to hid it behind me! BUT I still found it!"

Oh, I forgot to mention...this girl LOVES to play peek-a-boo!  She grabbed that 10 month old card and started playing peek-a-boo behind it while I was taking her pictures!  Such a sweet grin!

10 months

Sweet siblings.  Carter 2, Nora Kate 10 months, Dawson 5.

SO active!

Nora Kate is 10 months!!