Bouncing Baby - 10 Month Update

Hello my wonderful readers. I can not possibly believe that my little baby is going to be a year old in two months. It just blows my mind! Penelope is onto a new stage in life and it is so exciting to watch her discover everything for the first time. She is a bit sassy and knows how get to daddy already with what she wants. She is still crawling at full speed and pulling herself up but every once in awhile she lets go of the the table and stands freely for about a couple seconds before she sits down, so I don't think that walking is too far off. She has decided in the past month she no longer wants to eat pureed baby food and refuses to eat from a spoon. So we have had to figure out what to feed her that she can eat herself with her hands. We have tried many things that she eats some and does ok with:

avocados (very messy)

bananas (very messy)

apples in slices

pears (she wasn't too fond of but neither am I)

baby bel cheese cubed up (she loved this)

ritz crackers

goldfish crackers

yogurt melts

steamed carrot cut up small

cheerios
spiral pasta 
shredded chicken

Pretty much anything she can feed herself that is soft enough. We have had fun with it but are still trying more things. She has also had apple juice cut with water and loves it from a different type of bottle and sippy cup. 

The past couple weeks she has had her own room so she has been sleeping through the night no problems at all. We have just started naps in the crib so we are doing that transition right now. She is just changing so fast I can't keep up. 
Our friends from Australia came to visit a couple weeks ago and brought her this kangaroo and some books and she loves them. 

But we just love her so much and can't imagine not having her and talking about when we might want to have another one. Loves.