10 Months Old

12/22/2013
18 lbs
Size 3 diapers
Size 6 and 9 month clothing



To say Brooklyn is crazy and out of control would be an understatement.  She is in to absolutely everything but is adorable while doing it.  She is a super quick crawler and continues to pull herself up on everything.  She has started to walk along furniture and to transfer from one piece of furniture to another.  She has found the stairs and is quite the climber.  She isn't super interested in the stairs so we haven't had to get a gate yet, but I'm sure that is coming soon.  She loves to come play in the kitchen when I am cooking.  She likes to look at her reflection in the oven and try to get into the pantry.  She has also really enjoyed the windows.  The windows in our living room start just about a foot off the ground, so she loves to crawl over to them and use the window sill to stand up.  She then likes to look out and see what the neighbors are up to and also give herself kisses.

She is still sleeping well.  Recently I think she has been going through a growth spurt because she has been eating a ton and also sleeping almost 13 hours a night, which means she sleeps in until 8:30 or 9:00 and so most days she is only taking one nap. Luckily her nap is typically 2 hours, but some days it is only an hour which makes for a long evening.  She is still super happy. She loves to smile and clap.  We are still working on high fives and waving bye, she will do it every once in a while but not consistently.  We are down to 3 bottles a day, one in the morning, the next before her nap, and a third before bed.  She much prefers to eat solids and likes pretty much anything she tries.  No new teeth this month, hopefully she will get a few more soon.

Here are a few more pictures from the month:

 She loves to watch dad fill up the tub

 

 

 She takes off the second that her diaper comes off

 We've got a future plumber on our hands

Crazy hair

This is a daily activity



The March of the Ducks

The Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis has a tradition with the march of the ducks.  For over 80 years they have been keeping ducks on the roof of the hotel in the "Duck Palace" and each day at 11:00 am they ride down the elevator to the lobby of the hotel and walk across the red carpet and up the steps to the fountain.  They then stay there until 5:00pm where they then head back up to the roof.  We thought it would be a fun time of year to go check out the ducks since the hotel would be decorated for Christmas time.

We got their early enough so that we could walk around the hotel and check out all of the decorations.  They had a huge 30 + foot tall Christmas tree that was beautifully decorated.  We then watched the ducks.  I was surprised that Brooklyn didn't try to crawl after ducks.  She did like to stand at the fountain and watch them swim around.

We then headed up to the rooftop to check out the Duck Palace.  Their was a great view of the city and the river. It was a great little family outing and I'm sure that we will go see the duckies again when Brooklyn is a little older.

 

Christmas Parties

One of the many things that I love about Christmas time is that it gives an excuse for friends and family to get together and most importantly eat good food.  On Friday the 13th our good friends the Richardson's threw a Christmas/End of the semester celebration.  It was so much fun to get so many of us together.  We bought Brooklyn a cute Christmas outfit and she had to get her use out of it so she has been wearing it a lot the last couple of weeks.

The next evening, Saturday the 14th, our ward had their annual Christmas party.  Santa came and Brooklyn didn't care one bit, but of course I needed to get pictures.  At first she was a little confused why I was handing her off to some random man and then she slowly started to freak out.

The last one is my favorite.  I was a little surprised that she didn't try to pull off his beard.  She did calm back down very quickly after we rescued her from Santa.  The following Tuesday, the 17th, my work had their Christmas party.  Each year the doctors take the employees and their families out to dinner.  This year we went to Local, a restaurant in the heart of midtown.

We decided to dress her up a little bit more for this party and give her Christmas outfit a rest.  It was nice to get together with all the girls that I used to see everyday and now only see a couple of times a month.  We've had a lot of fun so far this Christmas season.  We've seen a lot of friends and had a lot of fun with Brooklyn's first Christmas.