Megan's 10 Months!!

Megan is 10 months old and it seems like time just keeps flying! She is becoming more and more playful and her own personality is really coming through.

Sleep:
Ugh, to everyone who told us we won't have another sleeper like Jade...I hate to admit it, but you were right. She started sleeping the whole night when she was about 8 weeks old and I thought we had another sleeper, boy was I wrong. Megan continues to get up 2 times a night. There is an occasional 1 time a night, but that doesn't happen very often. Most of the time she is up around 11:30 and then again anywhere from 2:30-5. I try to feed her more during the day so she doesn't get hungry at night, but it doesn't quite work. Megan is in bed around 7/7:30 and wakes up between 7 and 8.  We had a couple nights where she would just lay awake as we tried to rock and rock and rock her. We think it might have been because she took bad naps those days. Those nights were horrible. She would just lay in our arms wide awake. If you tried to put her down, she would scream, she wouldn't let you sit down and rock her...let's hope you don't have those nights anymore! We've also had a couple nights that she's been really ornery to get to sleep for the night. Let's hope that doesn't become more regular either! We have completely quit trying to take 2 naps a day. As long as she is kept busy and entertained, she is fine staying up until 12/12:30. She takes one 3 hour nap a day. It's actually really nice to have her take one long nap as opposed to 2 shorter naps. It really works out with our schedule much better!

Feed Me:
Megan continues to be a not very good eater. As of today (1-15-14), she is exclusively bottle fed. I gave up the morning feeding right after the new year, followed by the night feeding, and now it just doesn't seem like I have much during the night to give her. And to be honest, those teeth of hers don't feel good! When she eats, she needs to have something in her hands and be distracted. It's almost like she has better things to do than eat. If I let her, she would eat like 2oz and then be done for a little bit and then eat again. I pretty much force her to eat 4-5oz at a sitting. I have to change toys in her hands, turn on the TV, etc. to get her to finish a bottle. Some go down easier than others, but it's never easy. The same holds true eating table food. She has her own spoon and usually some toy to play with while she eats. She continues to get a bottle every 4 hours or so, eats 2 TBLS of cereal with a fruit or vege at lunch and dinner. Sometimes she finishes the whole container and sometimes she doesn't. She loves yogurt and is really starting to like "real"food that she can feed herself. She likes the puffs, graham crackers, and cheerios. Again, it can be a real struggle to get her to eat at times so it makes it really hard to tell if she is full or just being ornery. I'm trying to teach her the signs for "all done" and "more," but we seem to be going nowhere fast. She's really not into it and screams sometimes when I grab her hands to help her sign. Oh, she has a mind of her own! For her night feedings, I pretty much have to shove the bottle in her mouth to get her to realize what it is and then she drinks a bottle pretty good. Ugh! You test my patience at times Miss Megan!

Milestones:
Nothing new to note here. She continues to call Nate Dada and is doing it more and more. She is getting closer and closer to walking, but still is not walking on her own. She just takes a couple steps before falling. I think she just wants to run and not take the time to learn how to walk first.

Favorites:
Jade, yogurt, Mickey Mouse, playing Hide and Seek, chasing Jade, walking while holding onto something. It's fun playing hide and seek with her! When we hide she gets super excited when she knows Jade and Daddy are about to find us. She kicks her legs and gets a big smile on her face and usually ruins our hiding place by making noise.

Weight: 17.8lbs
Height: 27"??? that's a complete guess
Clothes: She is still wearing 6-9 month clothing and not really growing out of many of them yet. She fits into some 12 month shirts, but the pants are still pretty long.

Pictures get harder and harder to take each month!!

The blocks with paper on them are way more interesting than whatever Mom is doing to try to get me to look up.

Huh? I will look just this once, but I'm not going to smile.

Megan is usually so smiley and then I get a camera out and she just stares, maybe next month will be better.