10 Months Old

Kherington is 10 months old today! Can you believe it? She is a very active and determined little girl.

She crawls all over the place. She has learned how to unload the cupboards. I went into the kitchen yesterday and made a huge "hhhhhhuhhhhh" sound and she jumped dropped the onion that she'd been peeling and crawled away from me. Very funny.

She LOVES chocolate. There is a chocolate outlet relatively close by where you can sample all the chocolates for free and buy them at a significantly discounted rate. She literally pulls my hand with the chocolate to her mouth...and she's strong.

Story: She loves other kids, but does NOT like to share her toys...most kids she has 'played' with have been younger than her and not really into toys, but last Sunday we had a family over that has a 19 month old and she did NOT like it when he tried to play with any of her toys...we'll have to work on that one.

She stands up in the middle of the room on her own and when she's playing with her toys she'll go from squat to stand and back, but doesn't yet have motivation to walk except for occasionally behind her wheeled walker.

With the start of her new schedule, she now takes 2 naps a day and sleeps through the night (9pm - 5am, has a bottle then goes back to sleep 5am-7:30am). She also isn't as resistant when we put her in her car seat but would still much rather be behind the wheel.  Here she is driving the mini.

Favorites
Color: not sure yet
Toy: musical house...all day, every day
Food: banana or Gouda cheese
Dessert: chocolates
Word: ma ma ma ma
Book: "Water, Water Everywhere"
Activity: driving the car or bath time
Teeth: 6 (3 top, 3 bottom...got bottom first then the top)
*Least favorite activity: diaper changes...she wiggles and crawls away which is really gross when it's a stinky diaper...I've gotten good at wiping and putting diapers on backwards.

Belgian Explorations

We're in Brussels, Belgium along with the COLD weather...brrrrrrrr....So what have we (being mostly me and Kherington during the day while Ryan's at work) been up to?

Building - We built a TON of Ikea furniture (European apartments typically don't come with closets, wardrobes, curtains/curtain rods, light fixtures, etc). Kherington helped me with a couple items while Ryan was at work, then we bought and built together. We ended up making quite a few trips to Ikea because our car is a the mini cooper.  Nothing was too large to fit which was nice and we only drove illegally once. Someone from our ward came over and drilled a bunch of holes this last weekend to actually put the curtain rods and light fixtures up (very very helpful...we had drilled 6 holes and none of them worked...apparently you need the right type of drill to drill through cement).

Okay, Okay. Now the good stuff.

Artistic Trees - Made out of wooden crates
Grand Place - Tons of statues on the building
Waffles - The best Liege waffles (sugar waffles) are hands down found at Stockel Market (open Mon, Tues, Fri, and Sat morning). I have not yet tried the Belgian waffles (normal waffle) in the picture, but they do look like the best Belgian waffles I have ever seen.

Brewery - Toured the last old fashion brewery in Brussels and got some cute Kherington pictures

Museums - First Wednesday of every month after 1pm, a bunch of museums are free. We went to the music museum...guess what instrument this is (completely rhetorical...I have no idea...but it looks cool)
Gardens - Cool landscaping accompanied by some guards pacing.

Churches - there are churches all around

Brugge - We drove an hour and went up to Brugge a couple weekends ago. It was fun to walk around, but very cold. Kherington put up with this for about an hour and a half before letting us know it was time to go. We'll definitely have to go back when it gets a little warmer.