The Traveling Engineer's Wife: Mika at 10 Months

Mika is still about 18 pounds and 27 inches. Her pediatrician told me not to worry because she's a breastfed baby and they tend to not gain much weight after they learn how to crawl. Or in his words, "It doesn't exactly look like she's missing any meals."

yup.

Mika loves eating and will eat anything I give her except eggs. She has a great appetite and I never have to try to cajole her into eating more.
She has started using spoons and forks and is pretty successful at getting them in her mouth and sucking the food off.
She is really good at the pincer grasp now.
She can also drink out of a cup if I hold it for her.
Still no teeth, but the pediatrician told me he doesn't start to worry about that until 15 months

mmm...yummy steering wheel

Mika knows some things that are no-no's, like playing with shoes and crawling into the kitchen and bathrooms. If I catch her doing something she's not supposed to, she stops for a second and looks at me and laughs.
She shouts, "AH!" to initiate social interaction.
She imitates some actions we do, such as coughing.
She can turn pages in her board books. She will do that when she's "reading" alone and she'll also follow directions when told to turn pages while we read to her.
She loves music, and she'll bounce up and down to the beat so hard that sometimes she'll fall over.
She has stranger anxiety, but she also doesn't need me next to her every second like Jackson did. Sometimes she'll just crawl away into other rooms without me or Jackson and play by herself.