Diez Meses!

Karly is 10 months old. I always hear people say "time has gone by so fast - I can't believe how big he/she is!" Well, Karly is ridiculously petite and I don't feel like it's gone by all that fast. It feels like she's been around for about 10 months. :D

She is a smart girl! Actually, she might be totally average, but I think she's really smart. I love how quickly she catches on to things like "So Big."

Lately she:

-Fake sneezes and coughs. It's hilarious and I'll try to get a video sometime.

-Says "yucky." It's not that clear, but if I say something is yucky (which is apparently quite often), she crinkles her nose and does a sort of guttural sound that resembles the word yucky.

-Copies many sounds I make, including animal noises. She can do an elephant, duck, dog, cat (well, sort of mouths it, actually) and just laughs at me when I do a pig noise.

-Is SO determined. If she wants something she does everything she can to get it, including throwing tantrums and arching her back to get away. I hate it. :)

-Refuses to nurse anymore, so she's only bottle fed now. Lately, she hasn't been eating very well either, so we go through about 7 bottles a day.

-Has 5 teeth! She just got her 5th in yesterday, so it's been a rough few days (I think that's why she hasn't been eating well)

-Fake cries brilliantly and all to often.

-Waves hello and bye bye.

-Took her first step today! She was just trying to reach for me and took a step to get closer. It was awesome. :)

And now the beloved Monkey picture:

This is the only decent one I got because she kept doing this:

She thought it was SO funny to push the monkey over. Bully.

We also went for a walk to day and took some cute pictures.

I hope you can see it okay in collage form. I didn't want to post all those pictures. :)

Cooking injuries in the last week and a half:

1. burned the top of my hand on the oven element

2. sliced my finger with a santuko knife (twice I think...)

3. stabbed my palm with a knife

4. burned my thumb on the oven shelf

5. peeled my finger with a vegetable peeler

6. steamed my hand while taking a lid of a boiling pot

7. Not a cooking injury, but bit my tongue and lip - both bled.

Granted, most of them were not awful injuries, but I'm beginning to think I should stop cooking altogether before I lose an appendage or bleed to death.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Weirdest. Movie. Ever.

If you haven't seen it, don't bother. I can tell you all the awful, boring, ridiculous details.

If you have and happened to like it...why?

If you know me very well, you know there are few movies I would say were awful and a waste of my time. Benjamin Button and this are probably on the top of my list.

So if you still decide to watch it, don't say I didn't warn you.

Climbing

Remember that video of her climbing on the box? We were constantly worried she was going to fall, so we put the sewing machine (it was right next to the box) on top of it.

Oh, that didn't stop little Miss Climber.

Why don't you scoot the sewing machine to the edge of the box? you ask. We do. She pushes it back.

She is determined.

Poncho!

Or Little Red Riding Hood.

You decide

This is her new favorite face. She does it at least 20 times a day.
And this is her new smile. I think she looks like a Cox in this picture.

This is for my mom

Even though I'm SO sick of snow, I have to admit this is pretty.

This is what happens...

When you pull a chair down on yourself.

(I was standing 2 feet away, in case you're thinking I've neglected her. Gravity is faster than me.)

That's my girl!

Bowl of veggies before I give them to Karly:

After:

Notice something missing?

What this EVER a good idea?

If this was really a style, I'm glad I wasn't a teenager when Pretty in Pink came out.

Yikes.

Also, this is really weird, but every time I watch a movie or TV show where they make or eat eggs, it makes me want some SO bad.

The end.

Things I do to stay awake in the morning:

(Obviously to prevent any self-medicating on Karly's part...)

1. check blogs

2. dance with Karly to songs like "Down" by Jay Sean (Karly sings and dances along, which TOTALLY wakes me up) (don't mock me for liking/listening to this song)

3. watch the Toyota Sienna Family videos. SO funny. See here.

4. watch Gilmore Girls

5. do the dishes...sometimes...

Any other ideas?

Question for other moms (or people who know):

I feed Karly frozen veggies and canned fruits from time to time (they're good because she can feed herself and she doesn't seem to like to let me feed her anymore). They seem to...uh...go right through her, if you know what I mean. Does she get any nutrients from them when they don't even seem to be digested all the way?

Just curious.

Sorry if that's awkward. :)

Too much driving! But definitely worth it.

Karly and I have spent over 16 hours in the car in the last week.

She hated her car seat before. Now it's just a torture tool. Poor girl.

Nate was really busy with school last week, so Karly and I spent Monday-Thursday morning with my cousins in Altamont, UT (ever heard of it?). It was great to spend time with them - it's been way too long. I forgot how funny Alta is and how sarcastic Nelson is. :) Nancy was so good with Karly (makes sense, since she had 6 of her own!).

I didn't take many pictures - surprise surprise - but here are some that I got:

Totally random picture I took while driving (I was really careful). Pretty huh?

We went to work with Nancy one of the days, so we're just hanging out in her office...

keeping ourselves entertained.

This is mostly for my parents and siblings. This is the house we lived in until I was 10. The house used to be a darker green with a bright red door. It was awesome. It looks so much smaller...

And here's the back yard. They tore out the raspberry patch. :( They don't know what they're missing. (and the yard looks bigger than I remember - maybe it's because there used to be a garden taking up about half that yard).

Ane and Alta are in a play (with a bunch of high schoolers - they LOVE it. Heh heh.). Oklahoma! to be exact. Karly and I went to their practice a couple of nights and had fun watching them dance and just being with them
As you can see. :) (Thanks Shan for the cute jammies!)

(This is a random in between picture...)
Heil Hitler! (can I say that on here? It's just a joke) She has started raising her hand like this all the time. Sometimes like she's waiving, sometimes when she wants to be picked up, sometimes when she's trying to give you something and sometimes when she wants something. So pretty much all the time.

ANYWAY, on to our other trip. Nate decided really last minute that we should drive to Denver to help his parents unpack their new house. So Friday, we drove the 7 hours to surprise his parents. We set Karly on the porch, rang the doorbell and hid. It was pretty cute.

We spent a good part of Saturday unpacking and organizing, but that doesn't mean we didn't have time for fun! With Karly at the center of it all.

She loved this rocking horse. At first she rocked a little, but then decided it was much for fun to do tricks (she also stood on it and lifted one leg, like a rodeo girl!).
I think this was at 10 or 10:30, after she threw up all over me (and Kippy's couch and pillow - sorry about that!). She was pretty tired. But so cute!

She had a love/hate relationship with Jake the dog (hah - that could be The Bachelor too, huh?) She would crawl toward him, but keep her distance and just kind of yell and put her hands up to us like she wanted us to pick her up. In the above video is how she reacted when she got too close (this is also how she reacts to the vacuum, by the way)

Just look at her toes...

Anyway, it was a fun, albeit SHORT trip. It was fun to see their house (we'll be living there for a little while when we move to Denver) and can't wait to be there for good!