10 months

Our "little" girl is now 10 months old.  She has changed so much in the last month.  She is now crawling everywhere and doing it fast.  The one step in our house didn't keep her contained to the living room for long, and she now races the her brothers' room if she spies the door open.  She can also crawl down off the back porch.
She is pulling up on everything but hasn't made any attempts at taking steps.  Troy especially likes it when she pulls up on his legs and rips the hair out.  She is getting better at cruising on furniture and used a laundry basket as a walker the other day.
Diaper changes are a nightmare these days since she just wants to do go go go.
We are finally enjoying some better sleep around here.  We cried it out through night feedings twice last month.  It was ROUGH but well worth it.  Erin loaned us her video monitor and it has been a life saver; if she's not standing up, I just don't go in there and she will almost always go back to sleep.  Poppy goes to bed about 7, wakes up between 5 and 6:30 to eat, and then goes back to sleep until 7:30 or 8.  Her morning nap has also improved; it's been 1 1/2 hours the last several days!  So much better than the 30-45 minutes she was doing.  Her afternoon nap is 2 hours and at the same time as her brothers'; this is heaven for Mommy!
This girl really knows how to eat and loves her food!  She is really getting into finger foods right now and loves to sample what the family's having for dinner.  We finally discovered a straw cup that she likes, so she loves to drink water from that.  We plan on introducing cow's milk soon.
Here are some of the cute random pics of her in the last month:
Who doesn't love a naked baby?  We were mid-diaper and clothing change when she raced off.  She definitely knows how to pose for the camera and thinks she's always the subject of pictures.

 Enjoying some driveway time.  She is my only baby who ever kept a hat on.

 At the Easter playgroup.  I love the addition of a pink basket to our collection!

She was dying to get in the sprinkler at Liam's house the other day.  She loved it...

 for a few minutes anyway.

 Then she decided to explore the grass instead.

 She is a mess!  We definitely aren't raising a girly girl here; she loves to be messy and can give those boys a run for their money in the dirt category!