9 Months

AR had her big 9 month birthday yesterday!  It's so strange to think that this time last year I was starting to have baby showers and bringing all this new stuff into our house... stuff we can't ever remember not having and using!

When I took her 9 month pictures, she wasn't in the best of moods which is why there isn't one of her smiling and also the reason she's holding my phone.  :)

 Stats at 9 Months

Weight:  20lb 2oz (74%)

Height: 29.8 in (101%)

Head: 46.4cm (96%)

What she's up to these days:

-nurses 4 times and has 3 meals with each of those

-trying more and more table foods, loves crackers and bread (and maybe a Wendy's Frosty... just guessing that she would had she tasted one)

-has gone from pulling up onto knees, to crawling, to sitting up on her own, to pulling up onto her legs in a matter of about a week this month

-suffers from separation anxiety from her mother (we hope this ends soon)

-naps 2 to 3 times... we are in the process of dropping the evening nap but it depends on our day and how well the morning nap went or if she even got it

-vocab includes:  da, ma, na, ba (she typically picks one and repeats over and over), she also says "eh" and "duh" and will say it back and forth to you

-I do not believe that she quite has down "mama" and "dada" for us yet, but "mamama" is what she says when she is hungry or sleepy

-holds her hand straight out at others or herself, which I believe is her wave

-sleeps 11-12 hours at night

This is what the majority of her pictures looked like.

This past month has probably been the biggest developmental wise.  As you read above she's crawling and pulling up on everything that she can.  She especially loves our ottoman, I think the leather is easier for her to grasp.  She is also learning about the word "no" and it's consequences.  We have both made her cry already this week but we can tell that she's def. picking up on it.  Our biggest issue is that she wants to play with the gas logs.  Until she learns it's off limits, she can be upset every time we tell her no and move her.

We celebrated her birthday by getting her a new car seat!   Ours goes to 30 inches and we can see she's pretty much there!  We plan to install it this weekend and I really think that she'll like it so much more.  It's a bit bittersweet leaving the carrier car seat though!

"Daddy, you know I'm too big for this thing!"

Below are some pictures of our baby girl from the past couple weeks!!

Playing peek-a-boo!

Waking up from a nap.  I have to take a moment to tell you how much I LOVE this sleep sack that my friend Donna brought us all the way from France.  When we don't put her in it, it takes her a while to fall asleep and then she moves all night and wakes up early.  I think that she associates it with sleep and therefore just knows it's time to go to sleep and she does.  Donna, if we have a boy down the road, you will have to get us another one unless you really want him to sleep in this one!!

When she isn't in the sleep sack I find her like this in the morning!  (please note that she's in her pack'n'play b/c of my incisions and it makes it much easier for me to pick her up)

If there is something that she wants she can crawl and get it!

Happy girl!

She loves to flip through hard books and does so quite often.  This is also a good picture to let you see that we do have progress on the hair, slow but surely!

On her knees all the time!

 I'm sure I have forgotten something!  Her next update with weight and height will be her 1 year!  Can you believe it?!?!