10 months

Violet is now 10 months old, and such a fun and affectionate addition to our home.

She loves us very much, and is pretty quick to give us her open-mouth kisses.

Her personality is generally happy, easy-going, upbeat. If every baby was this joyful, I'd love to have five more!

When she does something she shouldn't do - like touching the DVD player - and we firmly tell her "no," she is unhappy, but no tantrums yet. She definitely doesn't have the same strong-willed personality that Cora has. (Phew! I reread the blog and was writing about Cora's screaming fits at 9 and 10 months...)

Yet again, one negative (but kind of funny) thing I should note: I was out front with Genia and our kids, and handed Violet to her for a moment. Violet immediately started fussing, waved her arms at Genia's face, and then reached for me. The arm-waving looked a lot like hitting!

Violet pulls to standing easily, and climbs up on things like low storage boxes that slide under the bed.

She likes to put things in her mouth - everything she can reach! Still no teeth other than the bottom two, and her teething symptoms have lessened.

She generally goes to bed between 8 and 8:30, and sleeps until 7:30. She's still taking two naps, though the morning nap has shifted to 9:30ish instead of 9.

In the bottom photo, Violet had woken up at 6 and was so unhappy. I changed her diaper to find a lot of mess, which was making her bum very red and painful. No wonder! By 8:30, when she was having her breakfast, she was done!

Speaking of breakfast, Violet normally has oatmeal in the mornings, and whatever we're having for dinner, in the evenings. She especially likes yogurt, chicken, peas, corn and carrots, along with quesadillas and French toast. She ate an entire piece of French toast for lunch the other day, and the next night she nearly finished a chicken-and-cheese quesadilla by herself!
She also nurses four times a day - in the morning, upon waking from her naps, and before bed.

We also have a couple of other cute photos from the past few weeks. In the third one, she found my lipstick and knew just what to do with it. And next, she was very pleased with herself after pulling down onto herself a box of fun things.