Sweet Pea is 10 months old!

Sweet Pea may be only two months away from turning a year old, but to me, she still seems so much like a baby! I think it is because she is still not mobile! I know once she starts crawling and moving around, she will suddenly seem so much older.

Eating: She is drinking only 5 ounces per bottle now that she is eating more solids. Her bedtime bottle is still usually 9-10 oz!

Solids: My pediatrician recommends doing three meals a day once baby is 10 months old. Right after turning 9 months old, it became very obvious to me that Sweet Pea was ready for another meal of solids so I started giving her solids with her 4pm bottle. We are having to make some changes in her diet for about a week, but I will write about that is a separate post.

Sleeping: Nothing has really changed in the sleep department this month. When she woke early from her naps at one point, I realized she was actually waking at 7:45am (instead of 8am, since I moved bedtime to 7:45pm), so she started needing to go down for naps closer to 9:30 and 1:30. I kept expecting her to need to increase her wake time from 1 hour 45 minutes, but she hasn’t needed to increase this month at all. Should be soon though, I would imagine.

Zantac: Sweet Pea has been Zantac free since May 27th!! She hasn’t had any issues being totally off the Zantac.

Teeth: The biggest news this month is that Sweet Pea’s two bottom teeth popped through this month! She had some minor fussiness and her naps were disrupted a couple times when they were coming through. She chews on everything she can get her hands on.

Milestones: Sweet Pea is no where near crawling still (she just isn’t interested) but she has started scooting on her bottom somewhat. She’s certainly not moving fast at all, but it started one day when I put her down on the floor at my parents’ house. I looked over at her a few minutes later and she had scooted herself over to a drawer, had opened the drawer and was eating some paper!

Favorite toys/activities: Since Sweet Pea is not mobile, she is content to sit and play still which is a new phenomenon for this mama! I am certainly not complaining because it would have been a challenge for sure to have a mobile baby and active toddler over the past 3 months had Sweet Pea started crawling at 7 months like her sister did.

Sweet Pea takes her baths in the big tub now! She LOVES bath time!

She has become very curious in the last month. She will whip her head around at lightening speed to see something or someone that catches her attention. If we are around a group of people or around a lot of activity when she is trying to drink a bottle, I will sometimes have to go off to a quiet area to get her to drink with no distractions.

Sweet Pea does get “bored” more easily than she used to. She likes for me to move her around to new activities every so often. If I leave her too long, she will let me know she is ready to move on.

She still loves her jumperoo and sometimes she is jumping so hard in there I think she will jump herself right out of the thing. Her legs are so powerful and I think it is from all the jumping she has done since she was about 4-5ish months old. Since she couldn’t really do a lot of tummy time because of her spit up issues, she jumped and she is one jumping baby now! She will jump while being held in your lap. She just goes to town as if she were in her jumperoo.

She loves to chew on these books and her Sophie Giraffe!

Diapers/Clothes: Sweet Pea is still in size 3 diapers. I still have 6 month, 6-9 month and 9 month clothing in her closet, but she pretty much wears 12 month clothing 75% of the time! I am not sure her 6 month outfits would fit her now anyways. I know her 6 month onesies would be too tight. Same for 9 month. Her 12 month onesies fit perfect. She will be out of those before I know it! This girl is all chunk!!

Personality: She seemed a little more “outgoing” to me this month. She wasn’t as apprehensive of strangers and in a big crowd of people she was content for a friend to hold her instead of me or my mom. I love watching the personalities of my daughters unfold. It is so interesting to see the little people God created them to be.

Sisters: Little Bug hung the moon according to Sweet Pea. Sweet Pea has been interested in sister for the past few months, but this month, Sweet Pea adores her big sister. If Little Bug is in the room, Sweet Pea is watching her. It is a challenge to feed Sweet Pea because she is always turning her head to watch her sister. I believe half the reason Sweet Pea is such an easy baby is because of her personality but the other half is due to the fact that she has constant entertainment in the form of her big sister! The best thing is that this love is mutual between the two girls. Little Bug adores her baby sister and looks out for her and loves to make her laugh!

Schedule (9 months old):

8am (or 7:45am) wake up, bottle, solids

9:45am (or 9:30am) – 12:00 nap

12:00pm bottle, solids

1:45pm (or 1:30pm) – 4:00/4:30pm nap

4:00 (or whenever she wakes up) bottle, solids

7ish bath, bottle

7:30/7:45pm bedtime

Happy 10 Months, Sweet Pea!!

- Elaine