Smooches!

Yvie is growing in leaps and bounds. She's 10 months old now! (I need to blog more) She's pulling up, cruising around, and making lots of noise. She can squat down and pick stuff up while only balancing against something with one hand. She can stand on her own for brief moments until she realizes what she's doing and then plops down. She loves eating green peas and sharing them with George. She loves George in general and is constantly trying to "pet" the cats who tolerate her to varying degrees.

Her new favorite game is taking things out and putting things in containers. Her head is as hard as a rock (she is Andy's daughter :) ). With her new found mobility she is falling down a lot. "Thunk" is not an infrequent sound in our house. She's a pretty tough cookie though. She'll cry for a brief moment but really all she wants is a hug and then she's back to normal. Even when she goes to the doctor and gets shots, she has a brief cry and then is ok. I love my super trooper girl.

One thing she has started doing that just makes my heart melt is giving kisses. I had been trying to show her how. I would make a kissy face and say "kisses!" then give here a little peck on the lips and say "I love you!" Well now when I make a kissy face she kisses me! It's the sweetest drooliest little open mouth baby kiss and I love it so much. The other day she was sitting with Andy and he put his head down to her and she kissed him on the cheek. It was the most wonderful moment. She truly loves her Dada. She is starting to consistently refer to him as Dada. She makes that consonant sound a lot, but when he comes in a room she looks at him and says Dada. We're working on having her recognize me as Mama, but it's not quite as frequent as Dada is.

I have a little bit of video to share which I will upload once I get a chance. I'll try to get more pictures and videos on here soon.