10 months

Dear Alyssa,

You are 10 months old today. Happy 10 month birthday big girl.

Each day my love for you grows more and more. You now eat only table food. If we offer you baby food you get very offended and will swing your arms around so that we can not get the food in your mouth. You also will not eat off baby silverware. It must be a big person spoon or fork. You are eating so much more theses days and I think your favorite thing to eat right now is anything with bread or a tortilla. You have four teeth up top and 2 teeth on the bottom. I think you are working on more bottom ones right now but only time will tell.

You can now stand by yourself and will do so for up to 45 seconds before you lower yourself to the ground. You are a climber and will climb on anything we let you. At Tammy's you are not allowed to be without socks because you climb the slide. You also love to climb stairs.

You are also into everything you can open the cabinets and if we open the dishwasher you are to it faster than we can get the dishes in it.

You are also so very happy. When we go out to eat you get every person in the place to wave at you and you give them big smiles and waves. You love to wave bye-bye to people.

The other thing you do is love to look at pictures of yourself. You will see one and say "Hi baby" you will also say "Hi momma" and "Hi Dadda" these make your dad's and my day so bright.

The only thing you are still not good at is sleeping. You do not like to take naps and we are very lucky if you sleep an hour. At night you are getting better and sleeping closer to 12 hours, but are still up twice a night in that time.

I love you baby girl and can't wait to see what month 10 brings with Christmas and the New Year.

Love,

Mommy