10 Months Old

Kylie turned 10 months old today, and let me say it has been an exciting month. I know, I say something similar to this every month. But seriously it has been.

Kylie has hit another pretty big landmark in her development. As I had mentioned in a previous post, Kylie had taken her first steps, and now just a few weeks later, I am proud to say that for all intents and purposes she is walking. I state it that way because it is really up to her. She will walk around the living room all day now. She does this with a combination of cruising along the furniture and “free” walking in open spaces. Her free walking is still rather slow, but she is capable of walking a fairly good distance on her own when she chooses. In addition to this she can even walk while holding rather large items if she wishes.

On top of the walking Kylie has had the opportunity to try a lot of new foods. Including celery, peas, corn, mashed potatoes, and some other things as well that I don’t have pictures of. Like some small pieces of meat, string beans, and various breads. As you can see from the pictures, she is very capable of feeding herself as well.

Also Kylie has started to display her own personality, which we are very happy to say she tends to have a very happy disposition. She continues to smile a lot and be very loving towards the people she knows and recognizes. In addition to that she seems to be very outgoing as well. Though this is something we will have to pay attention to as she gets older and teach her about strangers and such, we are still very happy that she is so happy and out going.

Furthermore Kylie has begun to show more developed signs of communication, as she will now wave good-bye (she moves her entire arm to wave, and it is very cute), and has shown blatant signs of understanding some of the sign language that Tiffany and I have been trying to teach her, most noticeably the sign for “eat”.

She also continues to talk up a storm and knows the difference between “Mama” and “Dada” and that they correspond to Tiffany and me respectively. For instance when Tiffany is gone to school or work and she wants to get my attention, she will often say “Dada”, thus showing that she knows the difference in the words. In addition when Tiffany is home she will walk up to her and say “Mama” and give a very big smile.

Over the last month or so we have also been able to get her into a pretty regular sleeping pattern as well. We lay her down for a nap about every three hours, and when doing so tell her that it is time for a nap and as such she no longer fusses to much when I do lay her down. I think she understands the word nap, because when I am with her during the day and I pick her up and tell her it is time for a nap she seems to start to calm down somewhat before I actually get her to her crib. She also understands “night night time” and correlates this term with going to bed for the night.

On a slightly different note, this month also saw Kylie’s first Easter. We were unable to get her picture taken with the Easter Bunny, like we did with Santa Clause, due to the lines being to long on the day we went, and Kylie already being very tired on that day.

We have also started to work on plans for her first birthday party, nothing is set yet we are tossing around ideas and trying to rough out a plan. It is a day that Tiffany and I are very eagerly looking forward too. I also happen to know that her Aunt Sissy and Grandpa are looking forward to it, as then they should be able to give Kylie ice cream.

In addition to all this have managed to get the pictures for this month up already, thus getting me back into posing the pictures on time. I will finish up editing the details of the pictures (the dates, events, and descriptions) later on during the night.