10 Months

Claire is now well over ten months old. In fact, in just several days it will time to write about her at 11 months. Sometimes it's hard to keep up.
This month she wasn't really into her photo shoot. Perhaps the sun was a bit bright and perhaps my camera whacked her in the head when I was trying to lay her down. And perhaps she doesn't like to lay on her back. Or on concrete. At least she's forgiven me.
Claire now has 4 teeth: 3 on the bottom and 1, just barely cutting through, on the top. She also has a hemangioma on her left cheek, just an inch or so under her eye. It popped up sometime in September and is just a small red raised dot. She is wearing size 12 month clothes, though truly she could probably wear 18 month if that didn't make me really sad. She loves to eat. Everything. Except formula. She happily gobbles up nasty things like canned pumpkin mixed with cottage cheese and doesn't complain about spicy foods, as we've given her plenty of southwest flavored meals as well.
She loves to be free to explore and usually goes straight for the areas she knows are off limits: the toilet and cabinets containing cleaners. She can climb stairs but doesn't voluntarily choose to, neither has she tried to go down them. She started saying "uh oh" which is the cutest thing ever, though I doubt she knows what it means. She's just parroting. She LOVES to give hugs, and has really taken to snuggling with her lovey and a stuffed frog.