I love mornings like this, when I can sleep in with my little angel. Sometimes I’ll stay awake and just gaze at her cherubic face as she sleeps — these are the moments I’ll treasure in my heart forever.
Mio
All posts about our firstborn, Mio Elise Allen.
Mio’s First Steps!
For about a week now, Mio has been taking little baby steps in an attempt to walk. She typically only takes two or three steps before stumbling down, but tonight she took more steps than she ever had before — and we caught it on video!
Already on your way to walking at 10 months old — Daddy and Mama are so proud of you, Mio!
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.
MiO Spokesbaby!
We noticed this product appear around the time Mio was born, and our friends are always sending us picture texts of it! This is the first time we thought to snap one ourselves with Mio and MiO side-by-side.
(On a related note, there’s also a GPS manufacturer by the name of Mio, too.)
Posh Baby
A few months ago, I bought this adorable lace petti romper made by Chic Baby Rose on Etsy. She makes the cutest rompers for babies and toddlers that I couldn’t resist getting one for Mio in my favorite color, dusty rose! The other day, I panicked that Mio would outgrow it without ever getting a chance to try it on, so we dressed her in it (it still fit — phew!) and snapped a few adorable photos. Dan thinks she looks like a pinata in the getup, but I think it’s quite chic! 😀
I can’t believe Mio will be ten months old next week! We better get to work on planning a first birthday celebration for our little angel! ♥