I can't believe Brinleigh is already 10 months old!!!! She is learning more and more every day and it is so much fun to watch. Over the last couple weeks, her two front bottom teeth came in, she pulls herself up to standing position quicker than you can blink, and she has also not only started drinking some juice, but she started drinking it from a sippy cup. YYAAAAYYYY!!!! I was avoiding giving her anything but milk in her bottles, so I started putting some juice/water mixture in the sippy cup and let her play with it for a few days, and the next thing I know, she's sucking it dry. She absolutely loves juice. She is also now eating some Gerber Graduates Arrowroot cookies, which she took to immediately. I liked those at first because they were big enough that she could munch on them without choking. BUT THEN...... she figured out how to shove the entire cookie in her mouth. Now I have to break it into pieces for her to eat. Brinleigh now claps her hands, both on cue and whenever she feels like it. Usually if you clap, she will too. Sometimes she just does it after she thinks she's done something impressive.... which is everything. She has started to "wave" at people when they wave at her. This consists of her sticking her arm out at them and showing them the palm of her hand. We are also working on her putting her hands up over her head when she hears me say "soooo big". She has some sort of obsession right now with eating gumming paper and especially cardboard, which I'm really hoping is a phase and just feels good on her gums. I can only hope that I'm not raising a child that will grow up to be on the show "My Strange Addiction" as someone who is addicted to eating cardboard. She knows I'm her Momma and when she is upset and wants me she cries or whines and says "mmmmamamamamamamamama" which is also sometimes just "mmamma".
Towards the end of our time in North Carolina, the weather warmed up hot enough to get us into the pool and out on the lake. Brinleigh wasn't sure of the pool at first, but once she was able to relax without everyone in her face she ended up having a great time. I bought her a little baby pool float that she could sit in with a little canopy to block some of the sun and at first I pushed her around & tried to stay as close as possible, but after a little while we were able to let her just float around to all the different adults and as long as she had little toys to play with she was good.
A couple days after the pool, we decided to head to the lake across the street from the house and put the jet ski in the water. KC and Tyler have some friends who have a house on the lake front and so we hung out at their place in the backyard which was right on the water. Brinleigh slept the first part of our time their and I was able to back the car up into the yard and let her sleep in the car. This was Momma's time to have some fun and go ride on the jetski. Once Brinleigh woke up, we took her out on the pontoon boat and pulled the kids around on a huge tube float. Brinleigh seemed to like riding on the boat, it was a smooth ride and it was just fast enough to get the wind blowing in her face. After we were done with the boat, we let her play on the beach for a little while where she decided to try and eat a little bit of sand. She wasn't impressed and started to cry a little bit.
Towards the end of our time in North Carolina, the weather warmed up hot enough to get us into the pool and out on the lake. Brinleigh wasn't sure of the pool at first, but once she was able to relax without everyone in her face she ended up having a great time. I bought her a little baby pool float that she could sit in with a little canopy to block some of the sun and at first I pushed her around & tried to stay as close as possible, but after a little while we were able to let her just float around to all the different adults and as long as she had little toys to play with she was good.
A couple days after the pool, we decided to head to the lake across the street from the house and put the jet ski in the water. KC and Tyler have some friends who have a house on the lake front and so we hung out at their place in the backyard which was right on the water. Brinleigh slept the first part of our time their and I was able to back the car up into the yard and let her sleep in the car. This was Momma's time to have some fun and go ride on the jetski. Once Brinleigh woke up, we took her out on the pontoon boat and pulled the kids around on a huge tube float. Brinleigh seemed to like riding on the boat, it was a smooth ride and it was just fast enough to get the wind blowing in her face. After we were done with the boat, we let her play on the beach for a little while where she decided to try and eat a little bit of sand. She wasn't impressed and started to cry a little bit.
