10 months old!

So Ms. Gwen is now 10 months old. I'm totally forgetting how long it takes a baby to walk from the time that he/she is taking her first steps, but that's where Gwen is right now. If she sees the end of a destination as only a few steps away and I'm cheering her on, she will go for it. Get a good laugh out of it too if she falls down. She SEEMS to be much more motivated to walk than Trevor was. But maybe I'm remembering wrong. She will crawl, but she prefers to crawl only to get somewhere where she can stand and walk around. She has been crawling for about a month and a half now which is a month shorter than Trevor, but he was 10 and a half months when he started walking. I'm curious to see if this is the month that she will learn as well, or if it will still be a little while.

She also developed an ear infection somewhere in the last cold. And boy do I feel bad about not getting her in earlier. She has had a cold for 12 days and had had it for 10 days when I brought her in for her check. But the difference with her is that she is not fussy, did not have a fever, and still slept well throughout the nights. But she has been on abx for 2 days now and her runny nose is almost gone. I guess her throat was really bad when we were in so whenever she coughs it makes me cringe.

Finally, a funny little thing that has happened is that she likes to play with her nuk. I say play because I'm not trying to use it to put her to sleep. She just puts it in and sucks on it for a while. She isn't teething-fussy during the day usually. She's now on the move so much that she can go where she wants to and find things to do by herself for a while now. She loves the play kitchen and food. She likes most of Trevor's cars and toys that she can get at. She likes the magnets and Word Whammer that is on the refrigerator. It's a lot of fun to watch her play with stuff. And, she likes to be read books. It's been a fun month! Minus the getting sick.....