Ten Months Old.

I have a feeling I’ll be saying this for months and years to come, but this is my favorite stage for Mio — turning ten months old today, she is as interactive and playful as ever, and our days are full of laughter and smiles just watching her shenanigans.

(I’ll be taking photos of Mio sitting in my white desk chair and wearing her monthly onesie every month until she’s one year old.)

Previous Photos:
One Month Old • Two Months Old • Three Months Old • Four Months Old • Five Months Old • Six Months Old • Seven Months Old • Eight Months Old • Nine Months Old

The Rundown at Ten Months…

Stats: You now weigh approximately 22 pounds! Your weight gain has definitely hit a plateau, and you aren’t outgrowing your clothes as fast (we are finally getting a little more mileage out of your outfits!), probably thanks to all of your mobile activity. A fourth tooth has grown in on your bottom row of teeth, so you now have a grand total of eight teeth!

Things You’re Doing Now: You’re still cruising and crawling everywhere, and in the past couple of days, you’ve started to take two to three teeny baby steps on your own, and then stumble to the floor. It’s exciting to watch these first attempts at walking, and we predict that you may start walking within the next month! It’s really amazing to watch how you have started to make cognitive associations with certain objects and actions. For example, Dan’s mom often sings and claps to you from a Japanese children’s book we have at our house — and now, when we sing you song and start clapping without holding the book, you’ll look around to search for that particular book that has the songs, crawl over and pick it up! It shows us that you’re really understanding and remembering things! You love to clap while listening to songs, as well as when you know you’ve done something awesome (like when you take a couple of the aforementioned baby steps!). Your squinty-eyed huge smile was on a bit of a hiatus for a while, but now it’s back in full effect! It’s astonishing how our love for you grows deeper with each passing day — just when I think I think I couldn’t love someone more, I surprise myself with what I’m coming to find a bottomless sea of love. It’s a living testament that we humans have more love than we will ever realize.