10 months old

Another month has gone by and my sweet baby is 10 months old! I say this every time, but she is growing up WAY TOO fast. She is still the best baby and our lives totally revolve around her. She is taking steps, walking with furniture, completely off the bottle, eating lots of table food, and developing the cutest personality! Anne Cambria has tried lots of table food including: turkey, cheese singles, string cheese, gold fish, broccoli and cheese, cauliflower and cheese, bananas, spaghetti Os, roast, steamed carrots, cinnamon french toast sticks, blueberry waffles, strawberry waffles, yogurt, vanilla ice cream, grilled chicken, baked chicken, mac and cheese and biscuits! We are still on a two naps a day schedule. I am curious to see when she tolerates dropping her morning nap. I am thinking we will work on that in January. ;) She has started going to Baby Pre-school at FUM one to two days a week and is making lots of little friends. I am loving being part time and spending more time with her. We have so much fun together. I have started planning her 1 year birthday party which is both exciting and depressing. It makes me so sad to think that a whole year has almost gone by already! I LOVE this stage and I wish I could hit a "pause" button every now and then.

Naps: 

        Morning: 9:30am (about 1-1.5hrs)

        Afternoon: 2:00pm or 2:30pm (2-3hrs)

Food:

        Breakfast: yogurt or oatmeal and a biscuit or french toast sticks

        Lunch: turkey slices, cheese stick, goldfish, 1 jar of veggie baby food

        Snack: yo-baby yogurt cup

        Dinner: whatever we eat, and if she doesn't like it organic chicken nuggets and 

        broccoli and cheese or mac and cheese

Milestones: 

taking steps

off the bottle

Let me out of this crib!

You have gotten smaller Bun Bun....or have I gotten bigger??

You are still so funny Bun Bun!

so happy!

 A little thirsty.....need a sip of milk.

I LOVE playing in the empty box of diapers

My new ride ;)

This is the look I get when I say "Smile for Momma"....a crinkled nose ha!

a miniature Johnny Burk

I am coming to get you!!!

Give me that camera!

First Steps

Anne Cambria took her first step on Friday, September 23! I cannot believe she is beginning to walk. She was 9 1/2 months old when she took her first step. I figured she might be an early walked because Johnny walked at 8 months and I walked at 11 months, and she proved my prediction right. I was so excited she took her first step before we left on our trip to Las Vegas. I would have been so sad if she had taken her first step and us not have seen it. Johnny and I were both sitting in the living room floor playing with her and she just stood up, turned towards the ottoman and took a step. I think she was surprised because after that one step, she gently sat herself down and looked around like "Wow, that was neat!". She has since taken two more steps. She took one step at Gran's house while we were in Las Vegas on Thursday, September 29 and she took another step PLUS she "turn around" towards where she wanted to go on her own on Thursday, October 5th. She is walking like crazy holding on to furniture but she is beginning to get more and more interested in letting go and wanting to walk independently. I am just amazed at how fast my angel is growing up and it makes me kinda sad. But, I am so thankful God blessed me with a healthy, happy child and Johnny and I love watching her learn something new everyday. We love you, Anne Cambria! ;)

Hotty Toddy

Saturday was Anne Cambria's first trip to the Grove. Ole Miss played Southern Illinois and we won (thank goodness). She did SO good in the Grove and was on her best behavior in the Rebel Club. Maybe Gran and Grandaddy will let us sit up there more often since we behaved so well! Anne Cambria played in the grass and pack n play when we first got there. Then we strolled because I was thinking she may fall asleep and take a nap. HA! WRONG! She was on all cylinders the entire day. Finally around 5:20, while we were sitting in the Rebel Club, she collapsed on my chest and took a nice 30minute cat nap. After the cat nap she "talked" to everyone that walked by our table and she also enjoyed standing at the glass walls and "watching" the football game. She was such a good girl the entire day and she looked precious as always decked out in her Ole Miss outfit. Hotty Toddy!

pre-game outfit

Getting ready for the Grove

I'm coming after you!

checking everything out

she was a little docile by this point from no nap ha!

cheering on the players pre-game

I can multi-task

playing with my Colonel Reb doll

First family football picture :)

 

HOTTY TODDY!!!!

9 months old

Anne Cambria is 9 months old! I cannot believe my sweet angel is growing up so fast. She is just as happy as ever and she is into everything! She crawls everywhere! She stands without holding on to stuff and she is also taking steps while holding on to furniture. I know she is going to take off walking soon. I just can't believe it. We are completely off the bottle during the day. She takes 3-4oz of formula out of her sippy cup with each meal. I figured she would be pretty easy to get off the bottle, but I had no idea she would make the decision this soon. She will take a 4oz bottle at bedtime while we rock. That is still one of my most favorite times of the day. I LOVE to rock her. Anywho, we are introducing table food now. She isn't a huge fan of anything in particular yet, but she is definitely Miss Independent. She wants to feed herself and she gets mad if you try and feed it to her. We went for our 9m check up on September 13, and Dr. Ivancic said she is "wonderful". He was impressed with her "talking" skills. We say "baba, dada, mama, kaka, kiki, guh, nah nah nah, and yah yah yah". It is so fun to listen to her. She weighed 19lbs 15oz (75%tile) and was 28 1/2in long (70%tile). Dr. Ivancic said she was very healthy and we are so thankful. God has truly given us the best blessing ever!

Loving some Bun Bun

I am over this.....

Hmmmm, what's back here??

Time to get down

I love looking out the window

No hands! :)

I love this sweet face

First Day at FUMC Baby Preschool

Anne Cambria started "Baby Preschool" at our church, First United Methodist (FUM) on September 8. It is on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8a-2p. I would call it "mother's day out" except that you have to pay whether she goes or not. So I am trying to do my work schedule to where I work on T and Th. It is Anne Cambria and 7 other little babies in her room. She has her own cubby and supplies. It is so cute. She needed more interaction with babies her age, so I am thankful she gets to go to the same little room that she goes to for Sunday School. She did great her first time. When I sat her down she went straight for the toys and never looked back. However, I on the other hand, came back in the room 3 times to check on her. The teachers finally told me to "Go, and not come back". She was fine but I was a little anxious. But I left and went to work and she had the best time! Here are some pictures from her first day of Baby Preschool.

playing while Momma packs my bag for Preschool

A little Baby Einstein

happy baby!

I want to get up

get those shoes off now!

I will not sit still.....

:)

photo session o-ver!