The biggest change over the past month is just how active she is. Three days after writing Willow's 9-month update, where I told you all that Willow didn't seem likely to crawl anytime soon and might even skip crawling altogether like her cousin, she started crawling! She is constantly on the move now, either crawling or 'cruising'; standing up all day, moving herself along using furniture and standing 'hands-free' for 20 seconds or so. She will also walk around if you hold her hands, and you don't even need to do anything to help her as she can hold her own weight and knows how to move her feet for a good walk around. I'm beginning to wonder if she'll be walking before her 1st birthday in January, but now I've said that she'll probably wait until she's older!

With her moving around more, it's becoming a daily battle of trying to keep her away from the TV stand, TV and XBOX. It's important to me not to shout at Willow etc, so it can be quite frustrating trying to explain to her a million times a day that she shouldn't do something, especially when I'm trying not to use the word 'no' as a default reaction. For me, personally, I feel that if I just tell her no all the time she won't learn why she shouldn't do something and she'll end up with a negative association to the word no. That said, she is only a baby and it will take a long time yet before she really understands when we explain to her why she can't do something, so I think this is going to be quite an on-going thing!

She is so into her food now it's unreal. Hardly anything ends up wasted, she devours everything - but still lets us know if she's had enough. Since we began Baby Led Weaning she has had three meals a day; breakfast, lunch and dinner, and she now also has a few snacks throughout the day too. I think she's starting to cut down on her bottles too, which is a relief as I'm so unsure about how much milk she should be drinking after she turns 1, and I know it's less than what she has now! Even with her 7th tooth popping through over the past couple of days, she's still loving her food and her current favourites are blueberries and melon, Shepherd's pie and Thai Green Curry, yum!

There are just two months left until my little baby turns 1. It's crazy how fast her first year is speeding by, and over the past month she has started to look so much more grown up. I think December is going to be quite the exciting month for us, with Willow's first Christmas, and many more developments and milestones reached.

Willow's 1-month update
Willow's 2-month update
Willow's 3-month update
Willow's 4-month update
Willow's 5-month update
Willow's 6-month update
Willow's 7-month update
Willow's 8-month update
Willow's 9-month update