Dear Hazeline,
Today you are 10 months old. I can’t believe that we are a mere 2 months from your 1st birthday. Unfortunately, in addition to being your 10 month-day, you also managed to come down with the sickness that Greenleigh had 2 weeks ago. Despite being sick, you were still the happiest little girl today. 
You love to stand and cruise around the living room while holding on to the furniture. The walker that Aunt Kim gave you for Christmas is a favorite, but you only know how to walk in a straight line and then I have to turn the walker around for you when you get to the other side of the room. Then the process is repeated another 32 times, which is what it normally takes for you to get tired or bored (which ever comes first).
We also found out today (accidentally) that you know how to climb the stairs. I have no idea where you picked up this ability, but you were very proud of yourself.
No first words yet, just lots of velociraptor-like screeches. You and your sister are best friends and have complete “conversations”. The sound of you two giggling at each other for no apparent reason is the best sound in the world. Greenleigh is always finding reasons to kiss you (please forgive the blurry cell phone picture).
While you will still let me feed you baby food with a spoon, puffs, yogurt melts, and arrow root cookies top the list of your favorite foods because they allow you to feed yourself. As long as I keep your highchair tray full of your favorite foods, you will sit in a highchair all day (unlike your sister who at your same age would tolerate a highchair for approximately 13 seconds and then be over it). You are also a huge fan of your sippy cup and use it well. Strangely, you don’t like juice, but will guzzle down water.
You are sleeping through the night again, thank goodness, but waking up around 6:45am. Would you mind sleeping in just a little later tomorrow? This mommy is tired and no doubt tomorrow will be another amazing day (even if you are sick and can’t go to daycare).
I love you so very much and can’t wait to see what tomorrow holds.
I can’t believe it!! Why does it have to go so fast (I’m pretty sure people are tired of me saying that….I wonder if that will be my crazy chant as I drop Baylor off at college?)? She is so beautiful, and I can only imagine what a wonderful joy it is to see how much they love each other.
What a beautiful postcard to Hazeline. She will treasure this when she gets older.
I feel we are on the exact same path with our little girls! Maddie is 10 months on Feb 4th and we are going through a lot of the same. Jen – I just love your blog. You are witty and insightful about this journey we’re all on with little ones while juggling a career at the same time. I look forward to reading all your posts and think about how I am going through very similar experiences. We are both very blessed to have sweet babies with great older siblings to help them along. Oh, and Maddie is also able to climb the stairs! She made it all the way up (while we followed, of course), but now we have to keep an eagle eye on the gate to make sure it’s always closed. We do need to bust out our sippy cups, though. I forget how old Tyler was when he moved on to bigger kids things like this.