Finley Milligan: Ten Months

In the past month Finley has started babbling and getting into pretty much everything. When she started to learn how to crawl I had a really hard time keeping up with her because all that she wanted to do was to practice crawling and I would have to chase her from room to room. I didn’t know how I was going to function for the coming months. Well, now she has learned how to pull up so she pretty much stays put in one room and goes up and down and up and down. Our days continue to be very scheduled, both Finley and I function very well on a regular schedule. She wakes up has her bottle, then we walk to the coffee shop so I can have my milk! When we get home we empty the dishwasher, this activity will keep her busy for about a half an hour.

Last week Allison and I were talking about caring for little people and she described her day in segments: before the morning nap segment, between morning and afternoon nap segment, and after afternoon nap segment. Allison likes to go to the gym and take her girls because it takes up an entire segment. On Mondays Finley goes to music, which she absolutely loves, but it also takes up segment 2 of our Monday!

Finley has FIVE teeth now. She has three bottom teeth and two top ones, however, not the middle ones like a bunny, she is a full on vampire! She has started to figure out that she can chew with her gums, so when she puts food in her mouth she makes very dramatic chews. Yesterday, she finally figured out how to use her sippy cup. I think the fact that it was filled with delicious white grape juice may have helped.

Last week I received a call from Favi, Finleys babysitter letting me know that Finley had caught a gecko and managed to put the entire thing in her mouth, alive and moving! I called the doctor and in all the years they had never heard of a child crafty enough to eat a reptile.

We are heading to Utah this afternoon. We have not flown with Finley since March so it will be an interesting trip. She is a very happy content child so I am sure it will just be one fun adventure for her and an opportunity to smile at a lot of strangers.