Roswelle Gray turned 10 months last week! I haven't written an update on her in a while. She is a busy baby! She has 2 bottom teeth, is wearing 12 month clothes, and is super 'expressive' ;)
Food: She still nurses 4 times a day, I have to admit I am SO excited to be near the finish line at 1 year!!! She eats two fried eggs in the morning. She snacks on bananas, pears, avocado, celery w/ peanut butter, and organic steel-cut oats (from Trader Joes) with applesauce and cinnamon. She loves to chew on dried apples form TJs - they are unsweetened and the perfect size for her little hands to hold on to - great for when we are out running errands! Her favorite green is broccoli.
She will eat anything orange: steamed carrots/butternut squash/sweet potatoes. She isn't a huge fan of meat yet. I also make her "cookies" which is 1 cup of almond flour, 1 tbsp of coconut oil, 1 banana, & 1 egg. Bake at 350 for 6-8 minutes. Paul actually loves them too!
Sleep: She is a great napper - typically naps from 8:30-10am and then 12:30-2pm. Sometimes I will get a 30 minute nap out of her around 4pm if I'm really lucky. She is sleeping from 6:30-6:30am. The past week she has been waking up at 4:30 or 5:30 but she will go right back down if we go in and hold her for a few minutes (I personally refuse to get up before 6am so I'll do anything to get her back down that early).
Favorites: She LOVES to be read to. Her favorite books are the touch and feel (pat the bunny). The only time she will sit still with us is when she is drinking a bottle or we are reading to her. She loves to be held...so much that she will follow me around the kitchen and living room pulling at my legs nonstop. Once she is up on my hip she is quiet as a mouse (probably hoping I don't notice she is there). I'm assuming this is a phase (fingers crossed!). She will wave and will try imitate sounds we make with our mouth. Andddd finally I hate to admit this but she loves Blues Clues. eek! One day when she was sick I turned it on and we watched it together snuggled up on the couch. Now I tend to turn it on during her mid-morning snack when she is in her highchair. She gets excited when she sees Blue the doggie and bounces to the songs. I was planning to wait a little longer to let her watch TV but I've decided a 30 minutes every other day or so can't be toooo bad?! Oh and we love dancing around to the Disney channel on Pandora - it plays all the classics - check it out!!
Now that January is almost over, Paul and I are looking forward to our first weekend away! For Valentine's Day this year we are heading back to the B&B we were headed to when my water broke almost a year ago! My mom is coming up and will have Roswelle all by herself for 2 days and 2 nights. We are all equally excited :) I'm also starting to pin/plan for Roswelle's first birthday. I'm going to be baking this grain, dairy, and refined sugar FREE smash cake: http://urbanposer.blogspot.com/2012/02/graindairy-free-b-day-smash-cake.html.
OK, I gotta get out the door to get to Trader Joe's! We are literally out of milk and eggs and road salt and with the blizzard headed or way I have to get busy. I'm so excited to take Roswelle out in her snow suite! Check us out on Instagram for pictures! (@saralaurenl)
OHHHH and she has her first swim class this afternoon!! :) :) :)
{this is RARE moment - her mouth is never closed!!! so silly}
{about to crawl off the chair}
{pat the bunny!}
{sweet profile}
{chatting with Lady}