Dear Zoë,

You are now 10-months-old.  I can hardly believe how much you have changed and how each day you grow more and more.  You are now crawling.  I know.  I can’t believe it.  It is not a graceful girlie crawl.  No you are doing a full on military army commando crawl and it is hilarious.  When you get tired, you just stop and hang out for a few minutes until you build up a little more energy. 

You are also cruising.  I know.  I am so excited that you will be walking soon.  Your brother isn’t a fan of your mobility, but I am.  The more you can move yourself means less time I have to spend moving you from place to place and activity to activity.  Especially since you love to move often and get bored after what seems like the blink of an eye. 

Sadly, you already have a favorite TV shows.  You love Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Yo Gabba Gabba.  It is my saving grace when you are super crabby but refuse to sleep.  If this makes me a bad mom and ruins your attention span and development please don’t hold it against me.  Mommy had to stay sane. 

You have picked up your brother’s habit of growling.  It is so very cute.  You are growing so fast.  I look forward to your doctor’s appointment this month just to see how much you have grown since you came home in June.  You are wearing 9 month clothes and that is amazing.  You are progressing so much.  You have seven teeth now.  Not all of them are all the way in but they have broken through the gums and I am so looking forward to the impending lack of drool that I will be drenched with as you stop teething for a little bit soon.  I know that I might be dreaming but a girl can dream can’t she? 

You are a stubborn little girl and you will give your father and I a ton of trouble as you grow up.  You have already perfected that “what now?” look that you will give us endlessly as a teenage girl as we ask you do things like clean your room, do your homework, and to be home by 10 on a Friday night.  I just want you to know that that look won’t work for me, because I too once used that look.  I will not bow to your teen angst. 

You still don’t much care for sleep, but you are one for routine.  So maybe you’re not sleeping is more my fault than it is yours.  Sometimes, you don’t get your morning nap at home, because we have something to do.  If you don’t get your morning nap, then  your afternoon nap is almost non-existent and then you wake up more than once at night.  If you get that am nap then everything is just better.  I have learned this, but there really are just sometimes when mom has to get out of the house. I try to make those time few and far between because I want you to sleep.  i want to sleep.  Sleep is good.

Zoë you have added something so amazing to our life.  The love and happiness is awesome and you really are a perfect fit for our family.  I am not sure how that works and how we got so lucky to get two perfect children and by perfect, I mean a perfect fit into our family.  We are so blessed and so lucky to get to be your parents. 

I can’t wait to see what next month brings. 

Love,
Mommy