1st Steps!

This evening, Arden took her first official steps (unassisted)! We believe it was about 5 of them from Daddy to Mommy. We'll try to get video soon!

10 Months

Arden turned 10 months on last Saturday! She has officially been outside of Mommy longer than inside :)

Arden has really taken off over the last couple of months. She is now an expert crawler having mastered the "cross crawl" technique. She has also learned how to sit down making her movements around the apartment much faster. She may be standing at a particular point, lower herself down, and crawl to the next point of interest with relative ease. As a result, we have child proofed our apartment with electrical socket plugs, a child gate to block off the kitchen, a toilet seat lock, and cardboard barriers to keep Arden away from wiring. Hopefully that will be enough! One of her favorite activities is being walked around the apartment. She would walk all day if our backs could take it! She can walk fairly well with one of us only holding one of her hands, and can stand by herself unassisted for 10 seconds at a time.

Today we went in for Arden's 9 month well visit (it was hard to schedule a time, thus we where in at 10 months). We where excited that this visit wouldn't have any vaccines. We where not informed, however, that though there where no vaccines, there was a blood draw and TB test. It was not fun holding Arden down while the doctor fished around in her arm for a vein. Arden cried alot. No fun. Hopefully the results will all come back normal.

Here are Arden's specs (all in the average range)...

19.5 lbs

28.25 inches long

7 teeth

Now knows titles associated with things (Mommy, Daddy, Penny, Cheerios, Up, No)

She loves to read all of her books and turns pages by herself!