The Muriuki Family Blog: Khloe is 10 Months old now!!!

Hi everyone! I can’t believe how time flies….It’s amazing how little time you have for free stuff like updating our family blog when you have a very active 10 month old crawling at what seems to me as “super speed” . It’s funny to read back over my first few blogs and see how I thought I had no time for anything at least then you could just put her somewhere and walk away to grab something or do something real quick and you knew she would be there when you came back, now she is steady right behind you following you to the kitchen or to the bathroom. She laughs as if it’s a game when she is chasing after us. I have noticed in the last couple of weeks the outside of her writs and top of hands are red every night, it just dawned on me that she has rug burns or mat burns from how she is dragging her self with her wrists and hands…LOL poor baby! Everyday this love of our lives amazes, entertains, and pulls at our heart strings. Well, as some of you know she is now pulling up on anything she can, one day at daycare this past week she stood up in her crib and smiled so big at her teachers as if to say “hey look at me, I did it” They were all so happy and excited to see this ( I wish I was there) She definitely knows what she likes and dislikes and let’s us all know…she shakes her head fast from side to side when she is done eating or she tries to hit the bottle away from her mouth when she doesn’t want it or needs to burp. She wants to be down playing as much as possible, no more tiny baby who is content to sit in your lap unless she’s really tired then she is a wonderful snuggle bug! We have taught her to give Hi-Five and she has perfected the Bye-Bye’s, I’m working on teaching her to give kisses…so far she will only lean forward towards me and her daddy and open her mouth when we get close to her moth ( so sweet!).

Khloe’s 1^st Valentine’s was very sweet. Paul brought us both home some flowers, we each got a card and he got her a really sweet hot pink “hot-dog” looking stuffed animal with hearts all over….this is her FAVORITE thing now! She is so funny when she’s tired she has one hand tightly squeezed around the tail and the other little hand on one of his ears. She rubs the ear or the tail on her nose or under her nose as she is trying to fall asleep. She drags this sweet puppy everywhere with her! Of course daddy is so proud that she loves his gift so much! When daddy walks in the door from work she starts saying “dada dadada” and lights up and waves closed fisted until he comes and gives us a kiss!! TOO PRECIOUS! (Paul has been working on MA-MA-MA with her too, she is getting that one down but not as good as the “dadada’s, I tell myself it’s easier for her to say dada then mamama)

We had a couple of old family friends of Paul’s in Atlanta last month here for their art exhibit opening at Spellman College (Ingrid and Robert. They are such an amazing couple to be around, I’m so glad we got to spend a few days with them!) We went to their opening and Khloe’ was such a perfect angel (of course) She practically stole the show. We had her in a dress and some new white tights! We were there for a few hours and she was so content to look at all the people and start her chattering, everyone was smiling and oohing at her, I was afraid she was stealing the spotlight from our friends live exhibit. I am so proud of her and how she behaves in public…she is such a great girl! (“God, can our next one be just as perfect as her, PLEASE?”)

This past month has also been such a learning experience for us as new parents. Let’s see, where do I begin? We had 1 ER trip which turned out to Roseola (High fevers for 5 days followed by a full body rash), a case of the hives 2 days later ( not sure from what), now we are back to deep chunky coughing and beautiful green snotty nose (which she absolutely HATES when you wipe her nose), now we think she may be getting an ear infection since she has been pulling at her ears and waking up in the middle of the night crying and god forbid you clean her ears after bath, you would think we were killing her!! GEES….and did say we want more children??! Oh by the way she is also multi-teething, she has 2 more little teeth in the bottom (4 total now) and 2 teeth have broken thru on the top. I definitely want to Khloe’ to know the joys of sister/brotherhood but really how do parents handle more than 1 child….Maybe that phrase “it’s easier with the second must be true! Ok guys that’s all for now enjoy some of the new pics! I will try my best to update soon! Thanks for checking in on us!