10 months

Yes, that's right. Miss Ashley is already 10 months. Her communication and interaction seem to advance daily. She obviously is a visual learner and continues to love baby-signing and is picking up more and more and using them in their proper context, really communicating! She has told me "all-done" since she began eating solids at 6 months. I love that! Now, she also uses 'eat' and 'more' a lot and is working on please. She also made up her own sign for music. It's quite similar to the baby-sign for music, but she just uses one arm. She also loves to clap and ADORES dancing! She often dances so hard and so big, she falls right over! Kills me every time.

Her newest and favorite word is 'uh-oh' and says it all the time, so adorable! She still loves to say 'da-da'. Although she can say 'ma-ma', about 95% of the time when you ask her to say it, she responds 'da-da'! To which Lacy erupts in hysterics. It's funny all around.

Ashley seems to be following in her sister's footsteps and is still not crawling as of yet. She does get around, and still is a massive roller. Just recently she is able to sit and spin all the way around 360 while playing on the floor. With that, she often scoots a little. Today Lacy and I played with her on the floor, crawling around her and me propping her up in the crawl position. She will hold the position, even more her arms, but her legs eventually just scoot back to flat. Neither the doctor or myself are remotely concerned about the lack of crawling, she is doing PLENTY in other areas and still is physically active. Her fine motor skills are quite good, so crawling will come at some point:)

With Ashley turning 6 months right around Christmas time, I skipped that well-baby doctor appointment and we actually just went last week. So, at almost 10 months, Ashley weighed 16.2 pounds. That puts her in about the 10-15% and I can't remember how long she was, but it was around the 50%. All was great! She has been super healthy and what a blessing that was with all the nasty flus that were going around this season.

Unfortunately, I only have these snapshots, as we just got back from an unexpected trip to Salem last week. My grandpa organized a family reunion, but unfortunately that entailed him collapsing with a heart attack and emphysema complications. It was really sketchy if he was even going to make it, but the Lord blessed us with a great Easter together with the entire family (even our Alaska clan) and he is now back at home!! Post on that later, but obviously I did not have time for a proper portrait.

Now, if I can only figure out HOW Ashley's AWESOME hair day occurred!! Seriously, look how adorable it looks! It is laying so perfectly-NOT the usual sticking straight out of the side of her head. That is the only reason I took this snapshot. Of course she didn't have the good hair day while we were visiting with all our family! Oh well, her hair is coming in great and she already has a little more than Lacy did at this time...now if we can only get more of these great hair days!!