Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Vivi at Ten Months

Vivi is ten months old!  In two months, she will be a year old!  I don't want to admit that.

I love her little personality.  We are learning new things about her every day and it is fascinating.

She has been crawling for four months.  And now she can walk with a walker and even stand up in the middle of the room unassisted.  She will stand straight up, then squat herself down, and then stand back up.  There are some strong leg muscles on that girl!


Marley loves to walk around with her.  Marley accidently gets going to fast most of the time and it ends with Vivi on the ground.  But they both really enjoy it while it's going well.

She sleeps so well.  She going to bed at night between 8 and 9 and wakes up in the mornings around 7 or 8.  She does wake up a few times in the middle of the night, but she just goes right back to sleep once I nurse her.  So, we usually don't even notice.

 I call her Vivi the Destroyer.  Or The Vivinator.  She is literally into everything.  We have an enormous living room in our new house and she basically just makes her rounds and pulls down everything she can, puts all the paper in her mouth, and knocks over anything that Marley might be trying to play with.  She pulls down most of the books she can reach, takes papers off the desk, and as you can see, she has also managed to pull my camera down on her head.

Marley and Vivi are doing great together.  Marley is usually very helpful with Vivi.  She loves to play with her and help me feed her.  We will all be sitting at the table sometimes and Marley will say, "Can you get me a cup for Vivi?  She doesn't have a drink!"  Those are some of the best moments of mommyhood.  I love seeing them happy together and being loving sisters.  I want to foster that friendship and connection and sometimes it seems like I'm not doing a very good job.  It's hard to talk about sharing with a three year old and ten month old.  Vivi doesn't understand taking turns or respecting Marley's work.  So, we struggle with that daily.  But I'm guessing that's a pretty normal thing.  They love each other though, despite all of that.

Vivi is overall still a very happy kid.  She smiles most of the day and is content to play by herself a lot.  She just loves to get into things and as long as she has something to tear apart/empty/go through, she is content for a little while I get something done.

One example of this was when we bought her some shoes last weekend.  We wanted her to have a pair of shoes so that when she wanted to walk around with our help out in public, her feet were protected.  When Marley was around 11 months old, my mom and I went to Walmart with her.  She was just learning to walk, but had never worn a pair of shoes in her life.  So, we went to the baby section, found a cute pair of sandals, and tried to put them on her so that she could help push the cart.

Marley literally screamed like we were hurting her.  People were staring.  My mom was saying things like, "Oh, we're just putting shoes on her for the first time!"  It was a very traumatic experience, but I was not about to let her walk around Walmart barefoot.  No way.

Vivi, on the other hand, was totally content.  She looked at the shoes, touched them and shook her feet around a little bit, but that was it!  No screaming.  No traumatic experience!  It's a testament to the drastic difference in their personalities!

Vivi's hair is much longer than Marley's was at this age.  And we think she is going to have curly hair!  The ends are starting to make adorable little curls!

 She can clap, wave, sign "more" and "milk", and she did a high-five once.  She is actually a little bit stubborn about performing. 

She will do these things for a day or two, and then not do it again for days no matter how hard we try to get her to.  I'm not in a hurry, though.  She can take her time.
 

She is at the stage where nursing is like a wresting match.  There are so many other things going on that she is rarely interested for longer than a couple of minutes.  But the girl loves to eat food!  She will eat anything we give her!  I love that she is such a great eater and hopefully it keeps going!

 I wish she could stay a baby forever.  I love her cuddles, hugs, and kisses.  She is such a sweet, loving, and happy baby.  And I don't want anything to change that. 

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