Sarah Jane's 10th Month

Some highlights from Sarah Jane's 10th month
Sarah Jane had her first illness during her 10th month (during the weekend of Aunt Carrie's shower while dad was gone) so mom had her hands full. She made it through like a trooper though and didn't complain too much. She got sick on Friday night and my Saturday had a fever of 102. Her fever came down a bit on Sunday and she was just about better on Monday but still sleeping a lot and got to spend the day with Grandma as Veronica stayed at Brady's house.
She is still not sleeping through the night, she usually goes down at 6:45, sometimes with some fussing (probably due to teething - she has 5 now!) and stays asleep until sometime between 4 and 5 when she wakes up fussy, usually with a poopy diaper. She poops A LOT. Usually we can get her to go back to sleep without feeding her but sometimes have to feed her and/or lie down on the floor with her while she plays. Mom is good at making a nest out of blankets and getting her final zzzs in while Sarah Jane takes everything out of the book case and throws it on the floor - her favorite activity.

She is still very very cute despite a scrape on her nose that she got the first day we put the safety gates in (they weren't very safe!) and the scare hasn't faded entirely yet. We like to put her hair in two little pigtails and she get's lots of comments. The general consensus seems to be that she looks like both her mom and her dad. She has her mommy's eyes and eyebrows maybe but her dad's skin color and the same more rectangular shape of her face. She also has Hoverman hair - it stays in the pigtails even when we take the rubberbands out.

She is getting ready to talk - she makes mamama sounds when she wants something and dadada sounds when she is excited. She knows what a ball is and sometimes says "bah" when prompted but isn't consistent. She can also play catch with the ball - she catches it when it is rolled to her, pauses to clap her hands and then rolls it back. She spent 4th of July weekend in Tahoe and by the end had everyone convinced that she could say "dag" and had Grandpa Zeke convinced that she was saying "Ickle" though no one else believed it. Her favorite book is "Brown Bear Brown Bear What do you See?" and when we get to the page with the goldfish she makes the goldfish noise - kissing sounds. When mom says "What does a fish say?" she also makes kissing sounds and when we went to daycare for the first time (when Veronica was on vacation) there was a fish tank and she crawled over to the fish and made kissing sounds all on her own! Mom was very impressed that she connected the picture of the fish to the actual fish. Clapping usually means "No more! I'm full" and she can wave goodbye (though hello seems to be more confusing.) She likes to wave to everyone in the grocery store, she's noticed that it gets everyone's attention! Her wave is either a full arm wave or holding her hand palm up and opening and closing her fist.
Sarah Jane is very good at taking things out, and this month has mastered putting things back IN. She likes to rattle things around (smaller boxes in bigger boxes.) She hasn't gotten to stacking yet but she's good at pushing stacks down.