10 months old

Berkley is 10 months old today. She is cutting her 4 top teeth right now, so needless to say, nap times and bedtimes have not been going very smoothly. I meant to take a picture of her teeth today, but she's asleep right now, so I'll take one tomorrow. She'll have 6 when these are through.

She is such a fun little girl. Every morning, when she makes her first squawks of the day, Logan, Hailey & Hudson fight over who gets to go get her out of bed. So we all usually end up going in there and she won't let anyone get her out, except for Mommy. As long as I get to hold her first, then she is fine with her brothers and sister holding her. LOL

She has been quite the drama queen with eating more coarse and textured foods. The second we feed her something that she doesn't like, she gags until she almost throws up. We have Uncle Mark to blame for it. I guess he went through a 'gagging stage' as a kid and I laugh so hard every time Rob talks about it. (But I'm not laughing too hard about it now!) I'll have to ask him how he grew out of it, so I can help Berkley! LOL So, right now, she loves eating "stage 1" foods.... rice cereal, sweet potatoes, carrots, bananas, pears, apples.... ya, it's ridiculous how picky she is. She hates anything green... I don't know who she gets that from??? All our other kids were chowing down table foods by now. So, I have no idea what to do. Any suggestions anyone?

She also has the cutest personality. She says so many things right now.

Hi

Thank you (Daynt doo)

Mama

Dada

Poop (ya, I know. We don't encourage it, but she totally whispers it now whenever we are changing her poopy diaper. Lovely!)

Uh oh! (she drops things on purpose just so she can say it)

She's said nana a couple times, but i think it was on accident, either way, she did say it. :)

Right now I'm trying to teach her to say Night night, but no luck yet.

She is crawling every where and is so fast! At night, when I tell the older kids to get in bed and I'll be down in a minute to say prayers with them, she will follow me around upstairs and stop at my feet, to make sure I pick her up, so I will take her with me to say goodnight with the kids. If I go without her, she cries so hard. When we get downstairs she practically jumps out of my arms to lay in each of the kids' beds with them while we say prayers. She absolutely LOVES her brothers and sister.

We can't even imagine our lives without her.

Just for fun, I thought I'd include this picture of Hailey at 11 months old, wearing the dress Berkley has on. This is one of my favorite pictures of Hailey when she was little.