The 10th Month

Well my little girl turned 10 Months old this past Thursday!  I can hardly believe it, she has grown by leaps and bounds this past month!  The most exciting news is that Fenna is now WALKING!!!  Last night she made it across the living room on her own for the first time!  She has been crawling like a mad woman this past month but over the last week or so she has started to master walking!  It is the cutest thing to see her wobbly walking around!  She is still just as happy as can be most all the time, this past month has actually been one of my favorites!  Hearing her little voice and watching her discover so many new things is so exciting.  She is also working on transitioning to table foods, this girl is just like me, she will eat anything you put in front of her!  Her third tooth also popped through recently, it is her top middle left tooth, and once again, we couldn't even tell she was teething again!  She makes me happy every single day and I can't believe she is all mine!  Here's some memories from the past month!

 

The 9th Month

9 months!  I LOVE this age!  Little Fenna is learning so much every day and is such a sweetheart!  She now claps her hands, and is crawling all over the place!  She loves to pull herself up to her feet and then let go of whatever she had been holding onto, she has stood on her own for about 10 seconds doing this!  I think she'll be walking in no time, but for now, I can barely keep up with her crawling everywhere!  Of course to document 9 months I had to take some special pictures, so here is Fenna Mae!!

Mom Fails

Recently I have had two HUGE, epic Mom Fails. They are both completely embarrassing to admit and were both 100% avoidable.  Let me start by saying that Fenna Mae and Mason David (we found out at our 16 week that baby #2 is a boy!!!) are both completely fine!  Having said that, please take this opportunity to learn from my mistakes...

Fenna started crawling two Sunday's ago, she would only go a short distance and would mostly only crawl on the hard surface in the kitchen.  Well, apparently her crawling abilities excelled more rapidly than I anticipated.  On Tuesday night, after a killer day at work, I left Fenna standing by the table in our living room to run to the kitchen and make her some food.  As I was just stirring everything up, I heard a fall, a long fall, and then the cry started.  I ran out to the living room and saw Fenna on her hands and knees on the bottom of the stairs!  At first what happened didn't register in my mind.  Then I realized that my 8 month old child had fallen down the stairs!  I raced down and grabbed her up, she was moving and crying, both good signs.  I brought her back to the living room and laid her on her changing matt to check over her, there were no signs of any damage.  By that time she had stopped crying, although my tears were still flowing.  We checked for any signs of a concussion but saw nothing.  The girl got away without a bump, scratch, or bruise!  It is still amazing to me that she had survived that with absolutely no effects, but I am so beyond grateful!  Of course I then started googling kids falling down stairs and apparently it's quite a common occurrence, so that made me feel a little better, but trust me, that is a mistake I will not make again!  So scary.

My next fail comes from a very busy day.  This last Saturday my mom came over early to help me do some cleaning, we then went shopping for a friends baby shower, and I ended the night doing a photo shoot for a family.  Apparently during all of this commotion, I forgot to hydrate!  Around 10 that night I started having stomach cramps that very closely resembled contractions.  After about 45 minutes I called my doctors office and they advised me to go to the ER.  Dehydration...completely avoidable on my part.  After an ultrasound to make sure the baby was ok and an IV of fluids I was sent home around 2:30 AM the next morning.  Looking back on the day, I now realize how little water I drank and have been drinking like a fish ever since!  We are so fortunate that both of these instances turned out the way that they did, but they were definitely learning experiences.

Just to prove that Fenna Mae is better than ever, check out this little cutie!

  

The 8th Month

This past weekend Miss Fenna Mae turned 8 months old!  And I cannot believe it!  This year is absolutely flying by and Fenna is hitting milestones left and right!  She now eats homemade baby food twice a day, but I think we will be about ready to bump it up to 3 times pretty soon!  So far she has had peas, green beans, sweet potato, acorn squash, avocado, carrots, and banana.  She had some trouble with the peas at first, but besides that has been eating everything else like a champ!  She is also SO CLOSE to crawling now!  She gets up on her hands and knees, but hasn't quite mastered moving forward yet!  She has inched back a bit a few times, so we are still working on it!  I honestly think she may start walking before she crawls, but we will see!  She also loves blowing raspberries!  She will do so for about 15 minutes straight, take a little break, and then start again, so cute!  For the first time yesterday I left her sitting in the living room while I went down to check on the laundry (David was close enough to keep an eye on her), and when I got back up she was STANDING on her own!  That was the first time she pulled herself up completely on her own!  I was probably a little too excited!  She is also still sleeping through the night for the most part.  She did have a couple weeks this month where she either did not want to go to sleep at bed time, or she woke up 2 to 3 times a night.  Thankfully that phase passed pretty quickly and we are back to sleeping 9 to 10 hours a night!  I have the best baby!  Here are some memories from her 8th month!!

Crooked Little Bum

I just had to document this cute, crooked little bum!  When Fenna was born she had a crooked dimple above her bum.  The nurses said they had never seen that before, so we had to take her down for an ultrasound of her spine the day after she was born.  Thankfully, this is only cosmetic, and her spine was completely formed and straight.  As her mother, I of course think it is just the cutest thing and had to take some pictures while she was still little enough for it not to be embarrassing!  Just one of the things that makes our little Fenna unique!!

  

Christening Gown

Yesterday we had a chance to do something that I had been meaning to do for quite awhile.  If you can't tell by now, it usually takes me awhile to get around to things, which is not necessarily the best trait to have, definitely working on that!  Anyway, Fenna Mae and I went down to visit my parents and got some pictures of Fenna in my mom's christening gown!!  It was so amazing to see Fenna in a beautiful gown that my mother had worn years ago when she was a little one!  My sister has also had pictures of all of her children taken in it, so this is a very special tradition in our family now.  I am so happy with the results and I know we will cherish these for years to come!

The 7th Month

This past month has absolutely flown by, i think it may have been the fastest one yet!  Fenna seems to grow daily!  She now has two little teeth (bottom middle) and besides a few fussy nights, doesn't complain too much about them coming in.  She is still not too interested in crawling, she is content scooting around on her back, but in the last few days she has pushed herself up on her hands and knees for a few seconds at a time!  I still don't know if I am ready for her to be mobile yet!!  This little girl has the coolest little personality (although I am biased, I know!).  You can tell already that she is going to be smart, like her daddy!  When she has something in her sights she will furrow her brows and stare intently at it until she has it figured out, she's definitely going to be a thinker.  In a new surrounding, she is quiet for a while while she looks around and takes everything in.  This past week, we have unfortunately been battling her first cold, and although her little nose is completely stuffed up and she can't breathe and eat at the same time, she has still been the happiest, smiliest little person!  Thankfully the cold is on its way out, but now we have rash that she has gotten in the last few days that we are trying to figure out.  As always, some memories from her 7th month!!