Ten Months

It is so much fun to see Anna grow and learn new things.  I can't believe she is so big, and she is becoming more independent.   She will sit on the floor and talk with her stuffed animals, she will giggle for no reason that I can see.  She is talking more and more.  The other day Joe was home, and Anna was carrying on a conversation with herself, and Joe was shocked that she was putting different tones and emphasis and inflection in her babbling.

Anna is figuring out more words, and Joe and I can actually recognize them.  She now says "kitty", "Andy", and of course "Dada", "Mama", and "nomnomnom."

Last week, Anna decided that she needed to find Dad during the day.  She walked up to the kitchen: "Dada?" no answer, so she went upstairs and banged on the bedroom door: "Dada?" we went into the room: "Dada?"  She was so disappointed that he wasn't anywhere in the house.  She sure does love her daddy.

She is even more mobile now than I think she should be.  She stands all by herself, and doesn't fall very often, she normally slowly squats down.  She is so quick with her odd crawl I can barely keep up with her.  But, when it comes to the stairs, she prefers to hold fingers and "walk" up rather than crawl up all by herself, even though she is more than capable.

The only small problem with her being so mobile, is it is almost impossible to get a picture of her sitting still.  When she sees the camera, she wants to come get it, and she gets pretty close.

This month, Anna got to meet her very first farm animals.  Joe's work had their summer party at Thanksgiving Point.  So we went up and enjoyed the Farm Country exhibit before dinner.  Anna wasn't quite sure what to think of the huge creatures that made loud noises.  The cow's head was bigger than her, I think she was convinced that he was going to eat her.  She was excited to try and touch the goats though.  We ate dinner on a blanket in the gardens at the Point, and Anna quite enjoyed rolling around on it, and onto the grass.  It was a fun day.