This picture shows the defiant side of our happy go lucky girl...she has certainly found her voice of protest and is putting it to good use testing us out the past couple of months!
We had a few weeks where she became more fussy than not - and REALLY needy...but this kinda coincided with her being sick a bit (another fever - not extreme but still hard to practice patience through) and fortunately she seems to have reconnected with her happy independent self. The thing I loved about her first needy stage ('cuz I believe there's likely more than one trying stage to come in her development) is that she has become one heck of a snuggler...it is so heart filling when she buries her head into you and snuggles close! Makes up for the new cries she is now testing out, one of which is soooo fake it makes me laugh every time! ;)
What else is she up to at 10+ months? She's found her rhythm and likes bouncin' to all kinds of tunes; she's waving and clapping; she's feeding herself finger foods; her dexterous fingers are capable of pulling keys off keyboards; she understands (and can almost sign clearly) 'more', 'eat' and 'milk'; she has 4 teeth and some molars pretty close to coming through; she is able to push herself up into a squat from sitting position; she does some cruising and she is actually able to walk around with help holding our hands...not too long before she's on her own two feet...scary!
She also seems to have a pretty good understanding of a large number of words and phrases. One example: she recently got a little people doll house which has a fridge door that opens up. One day we were sitting on the other side of the room and i looked at the doll house and said "look Sasha, the fridge door is open. can you close the fridge door?" and she crawled across the room and closed the fridge door!! I thought it was a fluke, but she has done it many times now...this and other examples prove her knowledge of open and closed for starters...which to me is very cool indeed :)
Her deflux procedure is this coming Wednesday, so I'll update again by the end of the week to let everyone know how it goes...
'Til then here's a selection of other fave pics from the past few weeks: Sasha with mom, dad, brother (boppin' to his ukelele groove), Cheyenne and her buddies Merlin and Jakob; trying to get out the door; sittin' in a big girl chair; flippin' through one of her favorite books (she has dexterous fingers and really likes playing with flaps and other tactile things); sorting her hats; "helping" the cable guy by sortin' through his tool box; and hangin' with researcher Vivien at the Infant Development Centre at UBC where she participated in a cognitive and language development study.
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