NINE

Nine.  3/4. 75%.  of a year!  wow! 

This is her new trick- I found her like this yesterday morning.  (Standing herself up in her crib)  Always wakes up happy!

I have no idea how much she weighs, but she is HEA.VY.  I have been trying hard to hold her evenly on both sides so my arms don't get lopsided.  :)

She is so crazy with eating.  Just a few days ago, I couldn't get her to eat hardly anything all day.  Then other days she is like a bottomless pit.  She is also SO temperamental with eating.  EVERYTHING has to be perfect.  Like I'm talking, tv on cartoons, laying at the correct angle, no talking, etc.  If she is having a bad day and we get her to drink a bottle, the other person isn't allowed to talk, sometimes isn't even allowed in the room cause it will mess her up.  My parents were in town this past weekend and she stopped eating halfway through her bottle when she heard their dog's collar jingle.  Once she stops, it's over.  She's a stinker!  She has been eating (if we are lucky) a 6oz bottle 4 times a day.  I am going to try to move her to three times a day, eating more.  I have been giving her more table food lately, and this girl is a BEGGAR.  She throws a fit when I don't give her what I am having.  I had to hide my chocolate donut from her today cause she wouldn't stop whining.  She loves anything that she thinks is MY food.  She was loving my avocado a few days ago, but then I mashed it up and put it in one of her small bowls and tried to feed it to her with her spoon and she wasn't interested. 

Still no teeth! 

She is getting really silly.  She has such a hilarious personality.  She is VERY emotional.  But that has plenty of good things that come with it.  When she is excited she is EXCITED.  Like, arms and legs going crazy, huffing and puffing and squealing.  It's hilarious.  The above pictures are her signature silly face.  It's pretty cute. 

She is crawling!  I think I said this in my last post.  Man, how that stuff develops fast!  Just two weeks ago she wasn't crawling at all.  Was barely even inching forward, and now she can get herself across a room to the electrical cords in no time.  For a toy?  Well, it's faster to just whine until mom gets it.  But anything that is a "no"- she is lightening fast!  :)  Her crawl sortof looks like a body roll.  I'll have to video it sometime. 

She is still SUPER obsessed with standing up and walking.  Her favorite is to lean against a mirror and lick her reflection.  Hilarious.  I also need to video this...

She is wearing size 3 diapers, 6 month onesies and outfits.  Anything that is 9months is huge on her.  She won't leave bows in anymore.  As soon as I put it in she grabs it and pulls it off. 

Oh!  In the last few days she has learned to sit herself up from being on her stomach.  She was just getting stuck there and crying until I picked her back up.  But now she can push herself up on to her rear.  Which means when she doesn't think she is tired and doesn't want to go to sleep, she can just sit herself up and play in her crib. 

She is having some SEVERE separation anxiety.  I'm talking, Stephen is on the floor playing with her and I am BARELY paying attention to her, and as soon as I turn my back and even start to walk away, she starts sobbing.  She gets over it when Stephen distracts her.  But when it's just me here, she will literally wail until I come back into view.  Sometimes she even will cry until I am holding her.  It's funny (and sometimes aggravating) to see her be this clingy! 

Her and Dad have a good time though.  He use to think I made her laugh more, but I don't think so.  I think especially cause he is gone all day, when he comes home, she is SO excited to see him.

My two loves. 

One of her favorite things here.  As soon as Stephen starts to lift her onto his shoulders she gets the biggest goofy grin on her face. 

She is quite the squirmer.  The only thing that makes her still is the tv. 


She hates the car.  She will cry as soon as I set her in her carseat.

I know it's a little bit of picture overload, but I just think she is so pretty. 

She LOVES other kids.  The smaller the better.  We had a play date with a friend and Blakely just wanted to grab him.  We also babysat for our friends Brett and Claire.  Ava is about 10 weeks old and TINY.  Ava was crying, and Blakely was SO concerned.  She would cry unless she was right next to Ava and could look at her.  It was pretty funny. 



Whew!  That's all for B at 9 months!