Growing a Little Schulze: 10 months

Claire turned 10 months on Christmas Eve. We celebrated by opening presents!

She is making great strides (pun intended!) in her move toward walking. She received a Radio Flyer walker wagon for Christmas. She was able to take maybe a step or two with it. Two weeks later she was able to push it from one end of house to the other. In early January she began standing on her own, unsupported. Shortly thereafter she was able to push herself to a standing position without holding on to anything.

In late December we worked once again on sleeping through the night. We had a few fits and starts with teething and a cold. We had 3 good nights in a row and then New Year's Eve came. We had a lot of crying around 2 or 3 that night/morning, just when my parent's happened to be staying over. But finally from the 5th to the 12th we had a whole week of sleeping through the night! Fingers crossed that this is the new normal!!

Eating wise, Claire is starting to exercise her right of refusal! She is pushing away foods she once liked - bananas, avocados, fish, cottage cheese. Sometimes she just seems to get tired of a food for a little while. Guess she doesn't like too many days of leftovers. She loves peas and pasta.

January 20-22nd we took a trip down to Savannah. It was Claire's second visit. We were there before on Mother's day. Grammi and Aunt Jamie babysat Saturday so Jeff and I could go to Jekyll Island. We had a nice day out.

Driftwood Beach, Jekyll Island

Sunday we helped Jamie load up some things to come back to my parent's house in preparation for moving out of her apartment at the end of February. Fortunately, Claire and I had to go with my mom to buy some tarps, missing out on the hauling of stuff down 3 stories. Claire has her 3rd and worst cold of her short little life. So it probably wasn't her favorite trip ever.

And finally, here are some photos. They are from my phone since I've finally figured out a good way to get them on here. The ones on the real camera will sit there til Jeff gets around to them.