Ten months on the Tenth!

I've been inspired by my friends Kara and Heather who's little girls have just turned 8 months and six months respectively on the 8th, to announce Madison's 10 month birthday today! (I can't believe how fast time has gone by!) I'm going to steal thier ideas for my post, hopefully they do not mind!

At nine months Madison weighed 15lbs 10oz and was 26 inches long (both 10th percentile). After asking how tall I was and Mahlon, the pediatrican said "I think it's just her genetics kicking in" Thats a nice way of saying-she's little, but so are you. Anyway, she hasn't gotten much bigger in the past month.

This past month Madison:

Learned to pull herself up to standing, and can get back down again.

Started waving hi and bye, sometimes its an all arm wave, sometimes it just with the fingers, or sometimes both. And if you're really lucky you'll get a double wave, with both hands!

Continues to crawl around, she moves pretty fast now, but she prefers to walk while holding your hands- she thinks she's so cool when she does this!

Lets you know when she wants you to pick her up by reaching up with both arms-it's so cute, its immpossible to resist! She also points to or "pulls" herself in the direction she wants you to take her.

Learned to "give kisses". When I say "Give Mama a kiss" she'll very carefully lean in, usually her mouth is open and slobbery, but I love them anyway!

Continues to talk or sing to herself in the car, while taking walks or when playing with her toys. She loves to hear herself!

Loves to play with her toys, especially her board books. She will sit and flip through each page from the begginging to the end (and then back) while "talking". I like to think that she's already reading!

Loves being outside! Her favorite thing is to go out on the balcony and pull out hand fulls of dirt from the pots of plants.

Throws tantrums (throws herself forward so her forhead is resting between her feet and crys!) if: I put her down and she dosen't want to be down, if I tell her no, or take away something she's not supposed to have. (Its so cute, it's hard to be serious and not to laugh

refuses to eat anything "baby food"- cereal (which she used to LOVE) jarred food, even little ravioli's made for toddlers, ect. the exception to this is little puffs, and grahmn cookies. She only likes real food that she can pick up with her hands. She spits out any kind of meat I try to feed her (except ground beef in speghetti sauce) and will "help" me feed her yogurt or apple sauce with a spoon (the only two things she will eat from a spoon) Her diet mainly consists of canned/fresh fruit, canned veggies, or peas, bread and cheese, and recently speghetti (with whole wheat macaroni noodles).

Not only has enough hair for one pony tail, but two--pig tails! (I haven't gotten a picture yet, but one will be coming soon!)

Got her first tooth, and second, and third!

She is so much fun to be around- she's always making us laugh. Mahlon and I love to just sit and watch her and talk about how beautiful or cute, or smart or cool (etc.) she is (Ok, so we take the proud parent role to a new extreme-which is why this is such a long post!) She has blessed our lives more than we thought possible and as difficult as it is sometimes, we wouldn't trade having her for anything else in the world!