10 Months Old

This is a little late in getting posted due to illnesses that have hit our house over the past week. Hannah has quite a cold and cough, and I was lucky enough to get the stomach flu. We're praying that we're over the worst of it and that we don't share our illnesses with each other. So far, Jason has been spared. We hope that he avoids it all together.

At any rate, back to blogging. Hannah turned 10 months old last week (1/14). I can hardly believe my baby is in the double digits! There is never a dull moment these days. She is one little girl on the move. Over the last month, she:

• Took off full-throttle crawling. It's amazing how quickly she can get across a room. Jason just installed a baby gate tonight.
• Turned into a little monkey, pulling herself up on anything that will hold her - furniture, play table, toy box, her crib. She's even gotten brave and let go a few times. Yikes! We now occassionally find her standing up in her crib after her naps. Lowering the crib yet again is next on our list.
• Has really taken a liking to "real" food. She particularly likes spaghetti, blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs, peas, bananas and strawberries. However, there really hasn't been anything that she won't eat. She's starting to get the hang of sippy cups as well. She loves apple juice!
• Loves being sung to. Her favorites seem to be Itsy Bitsy Spider and Jesus Loves Me.
• Jibber jabbers all the time, some of which is starting to become understandable - "uh oh", "ma ma", "da da", and "ba ba" (not quite sure what that one means but she says it quite often) are all a part of her regular vocabulary.
• Likes the game of dump out and clean up - she dumps her blocks out of their box and then puts them back in. Of course, she gets highly praised for clean-up!

We are so blessed to have such a happy-go-lucky baby. We went out to breakfast after church last Sunday to one of our favorite restaurants, and 5 different people came up to us to tell us what a cute, good baby we have. Of course, we think so, but it's always so nice when other people agree! We really do feel so blessed to have Hannah in our lives. She brings us more joy than we have ever known. I pray that God would continue to guide us as we raise her, that ultimately she would bring glory to Him through her life. Now that would be the ultimate gift!

This is what Hannah's normally up to these days (although not normally on the couch!)...