holly b {10 months}

Stats

Notable events

I left her overnight for the first time! Went on a little girls getaway with two friends, and she did great with Dad. I pumped while I was gone, pumped for 20 minutes, and literally made 2 ounces. And that was with pumping later than usual, even when I pumped in the morning! Crazy. She also didn't drink much milk while I was gone, which was kind of surprising.

Tricks

Dancing! She loves to bounce herself in whatever way possible!
Not crawling on hands and knees, but can get anywhere she wants with army crawling, and she's FAST! She sometimes gets up on knees, but still waiting on a full crawl :)
Blowing on food when we tell her it's hot :)
Trying to climb up us and everything

Favorite things

She loves the park. She often gets mad if we take her out of the swing, or if we're at the park but not yet swinging.
Girlfriend is obsessed with water! Probably because she doesn't get enough milk 😬
She's giving kisses and it's the BEST! She gives the cutest face-sucking kisses :)

Random tidbits

Getting alllll the crumbs.
Discovering her tongue.
Sometimes smacking her lips when she sees me or a bottle and she knows she's about to be fed!
When we have pizza picnics, she tries reallllllly hard to get Ada's bigger pieces of food. She really wants to grow up!
Starting to touch her hair while she eats. Joyyyy.
Separation anxiety is real! Just within the last few weeks she has become a lot more clingy for seemingly no reason. Always seems to cry if someone leaves the room, especially me!
FOOD: Still briefly breastfeeding 4x/day, and supplementing with 1-3 oz. formula for two or three of those feeds. Eats table food so well, but definitely has opinions about what she eats! Slightly picker than I remember Ada being at this age, but we’re starting early with no substitute meals!⁠
SLEEP: Wake her at 6:40am, nap 1 from 9-10:30am (usually wake her), nap 2 from 1-3pm, bedtime at 6:30pm. Almost nothing has changed in her schedule in the last month -- I just get her up a few minutes earlier, and occasionally she’ll wake up to 30 minutes early from one of her naps. Lately, she occasionally cries for 10 seconds - 1 minute when we leave the room (another demonstration of that separation anxiety).⁠

rushley & crew