Zuber-Harris Family: 44 weeks old: 10 months old, waving, visit to the zoo

Eloise turned 10 months old on Sunday! She smiles more than ever and wrinkles her little nose. She likes musical instruments, dancing, cruising along furniture, putting things in and out of containers (mostly out), waving, and babbling. She walks while holding our fingers but just for a few steps, all the while smiling ear-to-ear. She eats lots of finger foods, still purees too, and drinks water from a sippy cup. A little comes back out but that's to be expected from a beginning water drinker. She also seems to be getting four teeth at the same time - the two on the bottom are cutting through and are sharp, and the top two you can see white just under her gums. I think she is about to go from zero to four teeth in a matter of weeks!

10 months old

Speaking of waving, right after I posted last week's entry I got a couple videos of Eloise waving:

Eloise is learning more and more words and phrases that sometimes she seems to understand and other times it's hard to tell. I think she understands this one:

"Eloise, no."

Each morning and after naps we have a routine of opening the drapes and letting her look out the window for a while, naming some of the things she sees. She's starting to transfer this skill and is opening drapes in other rooms to see the view on the other side.

Oooooooh! I never knew that was there!

Today Eloise and I went to the zoo for the first time with some friends from our new moms group. We had a picnic lunch on the lawn of the amphitheater and then wandered around and saw some of the animals. Hands down the favorite for all the babies was the cheetah. Eloise smiled and waved at it!