10 Months Old!!!

Yay! I'm ten months old!!!

I am just too cute for words. Smiley pants!

Dear Madison,

You continue to grow and get older. I thought we had a pact that you would stay Mommy's little baby and live with me forever. It seems like that isn't going to happen! While it makes me sad that time goes by so fast and you are growing more and more independent, this is a really fun age. You are determined to do things on your own. You are content crawling all over the house, chasing the cat, and getting into everything! At times, you play happily in your own little world and other times recently you are glued to me. I am not sure if you are going through some separation anxiety (because we are never separated) or you just love to cuddle. You are so loving and affectionate and give us lots of kisses. You are an extremely fast crawler and are getting stronger at walking, as long as you use your walker or hold someone's hands. You are incredibly proud of yourself- and you should be. We can not go ANYWHERE without hearing from at least ten people how beautiful you are and what a great baby you are. You are confident and friendly yet shy, so funny, sweet, extremely smart, caring and of course beautiful. You truly are a content, laid back child and we love that about you.

This month you spent more time with your new friends from playgroup: Natalie, Chloe, Victor and Gianna. You love socializing and playing! You continue to love reading and I love reading to you. We continue to re-read some of the same books each day for consistency, but have also moved on to some higher level stories: If you give a cat a cupcake, and If you give a mouse a cookie. Your favorite toys right now are your piano, the leapfrog table, your flip phone and walker. You are talking up a storm, most of it we can't make out, except: da da, ma ma, good, hey, ba ba, nay nay, and na na. You just started waving bye-bye and we are working on you clapping and pointing to your nose.

I love you more and more every minute!

Love, Mommy