The Blanchard Family: Norah is 10 Months Old!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Norah is 10 Months Old!

Our little Miss is 10 months old as of December 5th! I cannot believe that in 2 very quick months she will be 1!!! Norah is extremely mobile now and into EVERYTHING. She crawls only on all fours now and it is a rare occasion that you see her using her army crawl. She has become very fast crawling on all fours, and it is funny to watch her speed away from you. :) Norah also now goes form crawling back to sitting all the time. You don't see her laying on her belly playing with anything anymore because she will just sit and play with it instead. Norah also pulls herself up on everything and is very daring doing it. She will pull herself up using my pants, all furniture, the vacuum, the stove, the wall, anything that looks remotely sturdy. She is also now good at getting herself down from standing. She no longer whines when she wants down, she lowers herself down and goes on her way. Norah can walk between and along things very easily. She is also very daring when walking between things. Just today she had pulled herself up on a cupboard. The vacuum was a little bit away from the cupboard, but Norah managed to walk between the cupboard over to the vacuum so she was just hanging on to the vacuum. Another place Norah is often found is under the table walking in between the chairs. :) She also will just hang on with one hand and has been seen standing not holding on with either hand and just leaning against the item she is next to. Norah has also master stair climbing this month. I now have to watch her because if I leave the room, I have come back in and found her half way up the stairs! :) I guess it's time to get out the gate! Norah also started clapping this month too. It's so funny because if she sees you clapping she will sit and start clapping too. :)

Norah loves to feed herself. Her meals usually consist of about 1/2 finger food and 1/2 baby food. Most of the baby food is stuff that is mixed together, like "Turkey noodle dinner" or "apple cinnamon oatmeal". If it's straight veggies or fruit, she easily feeds those to herself and it also keeps her busy during meal time so that I can eat. :) Norah eats so many things now, fruits, veggies, crackers, bread, noodles, cheese, yogurt, cottage cheese, etc. We have tried a sippy cup, but all she wants to do is chew on it and not drink anything out of it. Norah is down to just about 4 feedings a day and has been since right after 9 months. It was a BIG fight to get her to eat around the time when she was going to eat "normal" food, so I quit fighting with her and just cut out those feedings. She just nurses when she gets up in the morning, after her afternoon nap, before she goes to bed, and maybe once in the night.

Norah's personality is starting to show more and more. She is a very determined little girl and gets mad when you try to stop her from doing something she wants to do. She LOVES to unplug the Christmas tree right now and then chew on the chord...good thing right?!? :) She gets VERY angry when I pull her away and get her something else to play with. And then about 30 seconds later, she is back over there trying to do it again. This process repeats about 4 or 5 times until she finally realizes that I will win! :) That is until she wants to do it again later in the day or the next day. Yesterday I even put a chair in front of the outlet, but that didn't work either because she just went around the chair.... :) Sneaky girl!! Norah is also starting to get very mad when Kyler takes something away from her that she is playing with. Up until now, she didn't really care and just had this look like, hey....what are you doing? and then got something else. But now she is starting to let out this high pitched squeal and get very mad at him. I'm sure this is just the beginning of their sibling love!! :) Here are some pictures of our 10 month old!!