Following the Fishers: 10 Months ~Amelia~

It seems we had a relatively quiet month which was nice for a change. Things settled down after the holidays only to begin to ramp back up once the kitchen renovation gets kicked off in March/April.

This was the best we could do again! She never sits still anymore.

Growth:
Weight: 20 lbs according to our scale (up over 1 ½ lbs in the last month!)
Height: No official measurement this month but I would guess roughly 28”

Amelia is still wearing 12 month clothing, size 3 diapers and size 3 shoes (occasionally).

Mobility/Coordination: Mobility really hasn’t changed much other than Amelia is getting faster and is everywhere. She lets go of furniture occasionally, stands balanced momentarily, seemingly realizes she isn’t holding on and plops to her butt or grabs onto something for dear life. There was one instance last weekend where she stood completely balanced without holding on to anything for about 15-20 seconds. When holding her hands to help her walk, she can easily hold on with just one hand and walk next to you.

She's a handful

And you can't take your eyes off of her... EVER!

Her fine motor is really good and she has no problem eating and picking up just one piece of food at a time. Everything still naturally goes right to her mouth.

Language/Communication: Babble has been about the same this month but she is starting to string various jibberish consonant sounds together. Instead of “ah ba” she has gravitated towards “ah ya” for her go to sound this month. She also loves mocking us and clicking her tongue. She still signs “all done” and is beginning to use “more” which looks more like clapping. Yesterday at daycare they said she signed and said "ah dah."

Amelia’s laugh is something along the lines of Beavis and Butthead as we like to joke. It comes out more like “huh huh-huh huh.”

Personality/Amelia-isms: I talk about Amelia’s personality which is normally very fun, happy, and laid back. That is still the case but as I mentioned she still has that sassy side. Most recently we have been referring to her as the “bear.” It’s a normal nightly routine that she wants to eat supper by 5:30 at the latest, immediately drink a bottle or more milk, and then she wants to go to bed. If this doesn’t happen, she squawks and gets fussy and not so pleasant.

She squeals or screams very loud if you get in her space or if Grant or another child take her toy or something she wants. She also loves crawling around carrying a toy in her mouth.

Mad because I wouldn't let her go head first down the stairs

Sleep: Naps have pretty much diminished to twice per day. Occasionally, she sneaks in an afternoon nap still. Bed time is 6:30 or 7 and if she isn’t in bed with a full tummy by then we see the “bear” come out if she hasn’t gotten a late afternoon cat nap.

Feeding: The breastmilk stash is officially gone as of last week. She hasn’t had an issue with it. She is still drinking 3-4 bottles per day and we are actually seeing her drop her bed time bottle or drinking much less of it. I don’t think she will have any issues transitioning from bottle to cup in the next two months or less because this little girl can pack the food away. There are many instances where she eats more than Grant.

Her current schedule usually goes something like this: bottle upon waking (5:15 am work days, about 7 am non work days), 7:30-8 am breakfast with sippy, nap, 10 am bottle, 11-11:30 am lunch with sippy, nap, 3:00 pm snack with sippy/bottle, 5:30 pm dinner, 6:15 pm bottle/sippy, 6:30-7 pm bed.

Teeth: Shortly after last month’s post Amelia popped another tooth (lower, left lateral incisor). It was an extremely busy tooth time the last several weeks. She got 5 teeth in 26 days bringing her grand total to 7 teeth.

Her monster adult size baby teeth!

Illnesses: Early in the month she had more ear drainage from both ears that looked like pure snot coming out of them J I am not sure whether they were actually infected or not but we treated with drops and it took about a week of ear drops and her runny nose/mild cough clearing up before the ears cleared up.

Not sure what caused it this month but she also had diaper rash for about 4 days which is not normal at all for her. Occasionally she will get a slightly red bottom but this was an angry red, baboon bottom with a couple open areas that weeped and oozed. A little coconut oil and lavender essential oil did the trick though!

Brother/Sister Moment(s): Grant loves feeding Amelia and has now tried to pick her up on a couple occasions so we have to keep our eyes out for that!

Firsts: Valentine’s Day although it was relatively uneventful she got to try a little chocolate and received a couple 1^st Valentine’s Day cards.

Grant reading Amelia her Valentine's Day card

Likes: taking baths with Grant ~ climbing the stairs ~ playing with the dog bell ~ splashing in the dog water ~ pulling the towels off the stove ~ crackers and food in general ~ clicking her tongue ~ music and dancing back and forth ~ carrying things in her mouth while she crawls