10 months

Our sleeping beauty

Our gator girl!

Arabella knows how to take advantage of a situation.  She picked up those leafs right as I was about to click the shot.  I think she knew I was trying really hard to get a shot in focus with my phone camera (my camera broke :( but during Christmas my brother fixed it!!!  Thanks again Adam!)

Back log: December

At her check up, Arabella weighed at 19.6lbs. The paper I had with the info got wet from a sippy cup and this was all I can remember :/


This little lady LOVES, loves, loves to eat.  Sometimes this little lady even out eats Landon(who is a pretty good eater).  It is a completely different experience for Josh and I because at this age Landon would eat the insides of cucumbers, mommy milk and that was all.  Well, maybe in his 10th month he decided he liked watermelon but you get the idea.   Bella, on the other hand, just wants to eat just about everything. She does get these ideas in her head that she doesn't like something but as soon as she will eat a bite she typically likes it.  Her favorites seem to be peas, carrots and any kind of soup. She even enjoys slightly spicy food. Arabella seems to know when someone has sweets and fights hard to get them.   Since she has 2 top teeth and 2 bottom and she does a really great job of chewing she gets anything that is easy to chew up.  Arabella thinks it is very funny to walk around with a bite half way in her mouth, which isn't the neatest or ladylike thing to do but it is cute seeing the look on her face.


Arabella is quite the talker.  It seems as if she tries to copy words we say all the time.  "Ball," "mama," and "dada," something like Landon and brother are her most frequent words and the ones she says the best. "More" is another one. "Boubon" for Bourbon our dog.  "Ca" for cat. "Dagie" for dog.  She doesn't sign as much as Landon, I think because she tries to talk more and we just aren't as good about encouraging her.  She signs "milk" for mommy milk and when she wants to eat. Sometimes she signs "more."

Bella walks most when no one but Landon and I are around but is getting more confident in front of people.