Double Digits

Mady just had a big birthday. She is 10 months old now and there is no going back. Grandpa B was with us for the last week to keep an eye on Mady while we worked. He cooked up some really nice meals for us while he was here. Carrie's class is coming to an end, so we are on our own again now. We were very blessed to be able to have all of our parents come spend time with us. Mady really enjoyed all the time with her grandparents as well. The old folks even seemed to have a good time with the little squirt.

In addition to getting older, Mady has had some exciting developments recently. She has been standing for short periods of time without support. On her birthday, she took her first 3 tottering steps by herself. She definitley prefers to just drop down and crawl, but if she is standing and is close enough to her target, she may take a step or two towards it. With rolling and crawling it worked the same way. She moved very cautiously at first, but after a week or so of practice, she was a pro. Hopefully this time it will take more than a week before she starts running circles around us...

She has also started using sign language back to us. So far she has signed the word 'milk.' It is just an opening and closing motion with her fist, but she does it now when we offer her milk. Soon she will probably start using it to tell us that she wants milk. We are also teaching her water, eat, ball, and all done.


The final exciting development is that her top two teeth have started coming in. It looks like she got her daddy's gap, at least with her baby teeth. Maybe she will have braces in her future. So far, the only qualities that I can tell that I've given her are gapped teeth and wet sneezes. As long as she doesn't get my hairy chest, I think she'll be ok... :)

We've uploaded more pictures to the October and November Picasa albums.