Melissa Moving About

Melissa's Major Milestone 10-11 Month

Here are some major milestones when Melissa is 10-11 month old:

• Eat 3 times a day regularly.
• Start eating beef and fish. She starts to show preference to some food but is still a very good eater.
• Loves slide and tries to climb up the stairs of the slide.
• Still afraid of swing.
• Continues to show strong determination.
• 3rd and 4th teeth still haven’t fully came out.
• A lot of talking, but still the same words (dada, mama, nai nai).
• Shows strong interests in reading books.
• Stands up and sits down very quickly and crawls fast.
• Good at finger eating and is more interested in feeding herself rather than being fed by spoon.
• Cruise around using furniture as support.
• Stands alone for a few seconds.
• Plays while standing more often.
• Likes to play her diapers for some reasons.
• Wants to go down to play in the park and gets mad if you make her sit in the stroller too long.
• Sleeps from 9ish pm to 8ish am and takes 1 nap during the day. She is almost done transitioning from 2 naps (total 3 hours) to 1 nap (total 2.5 hours) a day.

Recap of Grandma's Visit

Where to begin? Grandma was here for over a month and helped out so much with everything it's hard to capture it all. I'll go with some photos.

Grandma feeding Melissa.. Melissa likes all sorts of food, but loves banana the most.. The other day she screamed Ba NANA while I was feeding her banana... Well, I'm sure it's probably just coincidence that she made those sounds in that order, but it was a happy moment.

Here's us taking a pose with Melissa after a brief walk in the park.

Grandma playing with Melissa. Grandma would patiently play with Melissa all day when the rest of us are a bit too tired.. Actually it's a joy to play with Melissa, but sometimes it's also tiring when she is cranky or keeps trying to go somewhere she shouldn't and you have to keep on stopping her.

We met up with lots of relative during Grandma's stay. In particular, she spent a lot time with Aunt Susan and Aunt Anna working on their video editting and photoshop things and made videos for Aunt Susan's grand kid's trips, 3rd Grand Aunt's visit, and many others.