Ember at 10 months
Ember is not only crawling, she is charging around the house full steam. Her favorite room is the bathroom, because there are lots of fun tubby toys and shampoo bottles to throw into the tub – which she does, immediately. She’s pulling up to stand on everything, including the tub, then *bang* goes the stacking cups, *thunk* goes the shampoo. At least it makes it easy to tell where she is! Once everything has been sufficiently tossed she then moves on to unrolling the toilet paper, and yesterday Den told me she figured out how to open the cabinet under the sink. We keep the bathroom door closed for the bathroom’s safety, but the minute she looks over to see it open she makes a beeline.
Kate’s room, too, now has its dangers. She would play with the clothes and toys and pull up to stand using the bed – that’s no big deal. But there’s also Kate’s trampoline in there and now Ember has figured out how to climb onto it! Not only does she bounce on her bum and nearly fall over backwards, she grabs the handle and stands up (and bites the rubber handle grip). So there she is, perched precariously on the edge of the trampoline. I won’t say she’s prone to falling, but she does fall off. So she either needs a spotter or the door stays shut.
All of this is made more fun by the fact that Kate can open any door she chooses now. I don’t care if Kate goes in her bedroom or the bathroom – though I do try to herd her out of my bedroom because she likes to play with the CD player and such – but wherever she goes, so does little sister!
Ember is 10 months old now and still doesn’t have any teeth. I’m pretty certain one is coming, either that or she has an ear infection or something, because the last few days she’s been pretty miserable. Red cheeks, runny nose, and just fussy fussy fussy. This kid is pretty much the furthest thing from fussy you can get, so for her to constantly crawling onto my lap sobbing “buhbuhbuhbuh!” but not really nursing… it’s just not right. Getting her to nap is being the most difficult; given that she isn’t feeling great I’m having a tough time putting her down in her bed, she just wants to stay attached to the boob. Needless to say it is difficult to shower and make food with her nursing. Plus it tickles when she flutter-sucks. I have been getting her to nap eventually but not after a bit of a fight and usually hours past sleepy time. So in addition to the above symptoms she’s also running chronically overtired. Overtired babies are very frustrating… just saying.
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Just this week Ember has started doing three important things.
On the “cute!” side she has started pointing, chubby little fingers curled in except for her pointer finger. Yesterday at the baseball game she kept pointing to the sky then clapping when I said yay. :)
On the “helpful” side she now tries to put her arms in the armholes of her clothes and actually straightens her arms to get it on. Considering I have spent the last 10 months fighting this child every time I put a shirt on her I am very thankful! I don’t know why, but she every single time she would pull her arms in to her sides, make fists, and use all her strength to prevent me from pulling her arm through. Very annoying. This is a HUGE improvement.
And on the “it’s about damn time” side she finally she has started rolling over!! Only back to front, and only to her left, but she finally figured it out. Of course this has made for some major changes with sleeping, since now she’s not stuck on her back wherever we lay her. So no more sleeping on our bed and we had to put the rail up on her crib. What a pain it is! I now have to learn the fine art of putting down a sleeping baby. Which, by the way, I totally suck at. But now when she wakes up she just rolls over and starts crawling around her crib.
