10 Months and Counting

Emma is now 10 months old.  It is amazing how quick these 10 months have gone.  I have not posted on here much about her (or anything for that matter) but I am trying to improve in this area. Note that this may be a bit of a long post.

Let me recap the last 10 months a bit.  Note that there may be a bit of bragging on my baby girl put into here, but what can I say, I love her so much!

0-3 Months
These months were so precious and I loved watching her grow up and learn new things. A couple weeks after she was born we took her to a Christmas party at our church where we ended up holding her for about 15 minutes.  The rest of the time she was being passed around to everyone else. Wanda was home most of this time on maternity leave and thus she was able to give her breast milk the majority of the time.  We fed her out of a bottle the majority of the time and thus I got to participate in the feedings. After only a month or so she was sleeping through the night most nights (except for when we had to feed her earlier on).  Ever since she was born we have been handing her off to people to hold and she never minded.

At 2 months she was 10 pounds 8 ounces and 22 inches long

3-6 Months
At this point Wanda was back at work full-time and thus we were feeding Emma breast milk at home and formula when she was at daycare.  We also started her on some baby foods (rice cereal at first) from the store.  She is such a good eater. The only problem we typically had was getting her the food quick enough.

Around April 10th, she rolled over for the first time and by the end of the month she was rolling over a lot more often. Despite having a bouncy and enjoying her time in it, she still was not putting much pressure on her legs when you tried to stand her up.

At 4 months she was 12 pounds 13 ounces and 23 inches long
At 6 months she was 14 pounds 7 ounces and 24 3/4 inches long





6 Month Photos taken by Ella Jean Photography

6-9 Months
At 6 months we moved her off of the breast milk and onto Formula exclusively along with her normal baby foods.

At about 7 months she started crawling around and applying more pressure to her legs when you tried to stand her up. It was at this point that we bought a divider area where she can play in.  I call it her cage :).  We knew it wouldn't be too much longer till she started standing up.

On July 18th, we figured we should take Emma for her first swim.  We went with a couple friends who happened to have a tube designed for babies.  She didn't mind the water though she mainly just sat there and never got too excited either.  The second time we went she seemed to have more fun.

On July 24th, we took her to her first Minnesota Twins game at Target Field.  We borrowed a Baby Bjorn and it worked very well for her.  I thought she would fall asleep pretty quickly, but it was so hot and noisy that she stayed awake the whole time.  The best part is that we took a picture of her and sent it in for the fan pictures and her picture was chosen as the Twins Pic of the Game.  This means she won us a HD video camera.  Not too bad for her first game there.

At 9 months she was 17 pounds 0 ounces and 26 inches long

9-10 Months
We spent Labor day with my parents and my brother's family.  It was during this time that we saw Emma pull herself up for the first time. She did really good with this and would even stand in one spot for a couple minutes. Emma still isn't walking along the edge of the couch/table but it won't be long till she does this.


Her first 2 teeth have just started to poke through but surprisingly there hasn't been too much extra fussing or even fevers.  She has been very good through it all. 

Emma has been a very easy baby to care for up to this point.  She does not get very fussy. She is not very loud. She eats well. She goes to anyone.  She is always happy.  We love her so much.  We are in the works of planning her 1 year birthday party. She has hardly gotten sick (a double ear infection and cough that lasted a couple weeks was the extent of it).  Even during the sickness she was pretty happy.


Emma continues to be such a blessing in our lives.