December 2010

Coco turned 10 months on December 4. It is amazing how fast she is changing. She has been sleeping very well with usually a good solid 11 hours at night and two solid naps that are between 1-2 hours each. That might be becuase she is getting so much exercise. She is not walking yet (as of the date of this post), but it feels like it is going to be any day now. She will stand on her own and balance for a few seconds at a time. She has no problem walking if she is holding on to someone's finger. She also loves the walker and loves to chase Poppy around the living room while sitting in it.

I went to San Francisco the second week of December for work and when I came back Coco starting doing this full mouth laugh. It is so funny to watch. She gets so silly! Here Daddy is practicing some cheerleader moves with Coco from his UVA days.

We had a pretty serious blizzard in the Northeast towards the end of December which kept us cooped up in the house quite a bit. I decided to get Coco some fresh air. It was still very windy and the snow was blowing around quite a bit. Coco kept trying to catch the snow with her tongue.

We went over to Weehawken to see our friends Kellen and Patricia who just had a baby named Olivia in September. Coco is normally pretty rough with kids that are smaller than her (pulling noses, hair, etc), but fortunately she was pretty gentile with Olivia. Here they are holding hands...so sweet!

The other shocker when I was away in San Fran the second week in December was that Coco clearly started saying words. We were sitting in the living room and Coco pointed to the picture of Victor and said "Dada". I almost fell off my chair. She can also say "Nene", "bye bye", "night night", and "baba" for bottle. She is still working on "Poppy" though.

Victor went to walk Nene and Coco crawled over to the window and stood up to watch them walk away.