10 Months.

Well, she's almost a year old. She's been hitting every milestone about 2 months early, but she's still merely making noises, instead of really talking. She does "ma-ma-ma..." and some other noises like that. We've been teaching her a little sign language for certain things she wants like "up, please", "eat, please", "drink, please", etc.. We think she did "up" today, so I picked her up and she was happy. Hooray for communication! She has, to this point, signed "please" a couple of times, and she's also clapping on her own. Sometimes with prompting, sometimes without. It's pretty cute.

We're gearing up for her first birthday party, which will probably be here before we have everything ready. Of course, we'll probably have ridiculously messy cake pictures and fun present opening pictures...maybe not in that order.

Kacey's parents visit pretty regularly, and my parents came in last weekend. She has a lot of fun playing with all of them. (pictures to follow)

She's still zooming (crawling) around the house, following Kacey and I whenever we go into another room.

Now, some way cute pictures:

She had fun playing with Grandma:

And Grandpa:

I figured we should get some from her perspective:

She finally convinced Grandpa to put down the camera and let her take a real picture:

She loves to explore, and she's learning to love to read:

I said to Kacey as we were talking about the books on the shelf, "You know what she should read..." She got it out on her own.

And apparently wanted to read it:
She was so proud of herself:
Afterwards she got out a book that Kacey got for her so that she can understand why I'm always griping at the TV during the football season. Well, really it just explains the game. I'll still have to teach her about salary caps and bad coaching choices:

She only has her pacifier (plug) while she's in bed, but often she tosses it out anyway:

I've titled this piece "Consequences of Actions":

And here are some more cute ones:


This one really made me laugh:


Only a couple more months until she's one year old. Yikes!


-jordan