Landree is 10 months old today! She’s doing great. So much has happened since the last post. This time last month she had her 9 month checkup. Everything still looks good. She’s still right on track. The doctor noticed she had
a little cough. He gave her a breathing treatment before we left and told us to call if it got worse. The next morning she woke up having trouble breathing. We took her to the emergency room and found out she had croup. It was pretty scary, but she’s
fine now.
On the 23rd of May we found her first tooth. Her daddy started checking her mouth for teeth when she was about a month old. And of course, every time he said he thought he felt one! It got to be kind of a joke. At her last
appointment with the genetic specialist the dr. told us she didn’t see anything that even resembled a tooth. I guess that’s why Rick quit checking all the time. Then a few weeks later, there was her tooth!
She’s saying three words consistently now. She says mama, dada, and bubba, but she says bubba more than anything. She thinks he’s pretty great. I mentioned in an earlier post that we started trying to teach her sign language when she was
about 4 months old. I read somewhere that it may take several months of showing her the signs before she would do them back. A few weeks ago, her teachers at daycare told me she was doing a sign over and over but we couldn’t figure out exactly what she
was trying to say. That night, her dad was swishing her around like she was flying through the air. Every time he would stop, she would do that sign. We finally figured out that she had made her own little sign for “more”. We were so excited.
Last weekend at my sister’s house Landree sucked her thumb and kept waving at us (we thought). I felt terrible because after about 15 minutes we finally realized that she was actually doing the sign for milk. We worked and worked for months
to teach her sign language and then we didn’t catch on when she finally did it! Poor Landree..... I guess she was wondering why we weren’t getting her any milk. We also learned that she loves ice water. Last night she even drank out of a sippy
cup. We’ve tried it before but last night was the first time she really got the hang of it.
Right now we’re working on crawling. I think she’s getting pretty close, but not quite there yet. She can get up on her hands and she can get
up on her knees but she hasn’t been able to get up on her hands and knees at the same time. Although, it doesn’t keep her from getting where she wants to go. She’s perfected the art of rolling! ECI has shown us some things to do to help her.
I’m sure once she’s crawling and getting into everything, we’ll wish for the days she stayed in one spot.
When she was first born I wanted it to hurry and be the time when she could roll over, say her first words or crawl. I couldn’t
stand the uncertainty and just wanted to know she would be able to do those things. Now I realize she’ll reach all of those milestones whenever she’s ready. She’s the funniest happiest little girl and she makes everyone around her happy.
Of course I want her to be able to do all of those things but it doesn’t matter so much when she can do them. She’s our baby girl and we know she’s great! It won’t be long until we’re planning her first birthday party. Actually,
her dad has already started planning. We’ve talked about it a little, but I can’t stand to think about it too much. Although I do think there definitely needs to be a tiara on her cake. That’s just a given!