10 months old!! (2 weeks ago)

Wow have I had a difficult time finding a few minutes to right up McKenna's 10th month! After Thanksgiving McKenna and I had that nasty flu bug which took us straight into out Disney vacation, then taking a few days to get us back into the groove followed by a busy weekend and here we are. I'm having to pull myself away from wrapping presents to get this on paper. Whew! Anywhoo, McKenna is TEN MONTHS OLD.

 

Yup, you guessed it. This was the best we managed to get being just McKenna and me. This child wants nothing to do with doing nothing.  She is always moving, always on the go, always up to something and getting into something. She is so sweet and loves giving kisses, but really isn't the cuddle up and zone out in front of the television type.  She LOVES books and even more so loves animal books.  This about sums up our shoot:

 

 

She is pointing at things she wants to go to and pointing at things when you ask her where something specific is. Dog, Chief, Boogs, Dada, Mama, Nose are all things she will point to when asked. She is also problem solving things, for example sticking blocks through a hole and opening up a hatch door to retrieve them. She's beginning to stand without holding on to things, but still in the experimenting phase. I think walking is right around the corner, but I'm really in no rush ;-).

My heart melts.  When the boys go barking at the front door and I tell her daddies home, she does her little Chihuahua shake, smiles, and squeals. I say the Chihuahua shake because when she gets super excited she kinda stiffens her arms up and trembles in excitement. It is the most endearing thing in the world.

She has several days a week she only takes one nap, and on those days, she goes down so easy and sleeps like a baby at night. On days her second naps are a little to "high-quality" she wakes up wanting to play for a few hours in the middle of the night.

I never thought in the world a human, let alone anything, could bring me this much joy in life.  She is such a happy, inquisitive, hilarious, quirky, spunky, smart, sweet little baby girl. And now I'm having one of my moments where I want to go wake her up just to hug her.