10 months – Seaside Edition

This month’s photo is a small cheat as the picture was taken yesterday. But I thought it would be a nice one to have as the 10 month photo as it was also Rose’s first trip to the seaside. She spent most of the time on the beach trying to eat pebbles. The small person in a green t-shirt in the background is Oscar (DS2) who managed to get his jeans soaked despite rolling them up to knee height!

(As an aside, I took this picture with the camera on my new mobile phone and am pleased/bemused that it actually looks better than than some of the pictures I take with my proper digital camera. I think it’s time to look at replacing it!)

So much has happened in the past month. Crawling is now perfected and she’s zooming around the house at a scary rate. So we’ve started some child-proofing of the most baby-unfriendly areas, but she still makes a beeline for the tangle of wires under the pc so I think that’s the next area to sort out.

Her top two front teeth are starting to come through now. So far she’s only had one grumpy morning with them and fingers crossed it’ll be less of a drama than the first two! Her babbling is getting more varied and she has developed her own distinctive laugh which sounds regrettably like Nan off of The Catherine Tate Show. So much for a gentle girlish giggle.

I love this age. It’s impossible for me to do anything on my own now, and I have to have eyes in the back of my head, but it’s lovely to see Rose developing her own personality and becoming a little person in her own right. And also very scary that in two months’ time, this will be the first birthday update..!