Beatrix at 10 months

I'm late getting up my post, but Beatrix turned 10 months a few weeks ago. Our friend Susannah says she almost always has an expression like, "Isn't this world just amazing and wonderful?" She does love to smile and laugh and usually makes other people smile too. She seems to share a lot of her Daddy's passions: dogs (She completely fell in love with my uncle and aunt's pug), Christmas decorations, and popcorn (which she eats with her one tooth).
 
We sometimes think of her as our puppy because she's always happy to see you and she's always pulling on your pants leg begging for food. Since she has one tooth, she is convinced that she can eat anything and gets quite offended when she doesn't get what everyone else is getting. The other day she was crawling around chasing the girls and howling, and Ella said, "Beatrix is roaring because we won't give her raisins." So I said, "Well, give her a raisin then," and sure enough she stopped. She can be a bit of a tyrant about a food. She demands her 10% of any food any person is eating in the house. She got very offended when she got a different breakfast while the rest of the family ate bagels. So she usually gets her bagel, and her eggnog, and her cookie. She, thankfully hasn't shown any food allergies yet.

She still loves standing and has now managed to stand by herself and to stand up without holding on to anything. She likes to show off this skill for no good reason other than she can. The other day, I gave her a cracker, and she was like, wait, let me stand up and eat this. Yes, that's better.

She also now likes to work on projects, especially putting things into and taking things out of containers. In the kitchen alone, she has four or five projects: taking the lids off of canisters, including the one with cheerios in it; taking oranges out of the box, sorting the gladware, taking ziploc bags out of their boxes, and opening the jelly cabinet.

As for fun, Ella says that she is "obsessed with peek-a-boo." She has now learned to pull the blanket down herself, which  makes for endless fun.