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9 Months

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

9 months old. Thats three months away from one year old. I. can. not. believe. it.

I think 9 months might be my favorite age so far. Perhaps I’ll say that every month. She is just the darn cutest little thing ever. It seems crazy to say but I feel like I am finally feeling relaxed and in the groove of living with a baby and having somewhat of a schedule figured out, etc. It certainly feels like it gets easier and easier. Perhaps that will change, but for now I am soaking it all in.

A is so fun right now. She is all smiles. It melts my heart. When she is playing or crawling and hears my voice she will stop, look up, and give me the biggest grin. She flashes that grin to everyone. And of course they all love her for it. She makes friends everywhere.

She just started doing this funny head nod. She nods her head all the time. I even catch her sitting in her crib after nap time nodding to herself. Its pretty hilarious. It makes me feel like she understands what I’m saying when I ask her a question and she responds by nodding her head. Its also turned into a rather humorous game asking her random questions, knowing you are going to get a head nod (yes) response. I mostly just ask her if she thinks I’m pretty. She thinks I am:) The other day we were out and on the train and she was nodding her head at people and they were nodding back to her and it made me laugh looking around seeing all these grown ups nodding their head. I’ll post a video soon. Cause its pretty adorable. She also likes playing peek-a-boo with herself. And does this thing we call, “riding the horse”. She sits on her knees a lot and when she gets excited about something she starts bouncing up and down and it looks like she is riding an imaginary horse.

She is talking a lot more and putting new sounds together. She still says mom and mama a lot and recently started saying papa and da. She also says yeah alot which cracks me up as often times its said very enthusiastically with her arms raised.

Its been a bit of a struggle getting her to eat enough food. She is not much of a fan of sitting in her highchair and is ready to get down and play after about 4 bites. I have recently come up with a bit of an interesting system to get more food in her though. Ill share more about that soon. She does do really well with finger foods though and amazingly eats strawberries, peaches, crackers, pasta, beans, steamed veggies, etc. really fast without having any teeth (still no teeth!). She is a bit temperamental with food though. One day she will eat something really well and the next she wont have anything to do with it. I am learning to be patient and creative in getting her to eat thats for sure.

She is still a speedy crawler and continues to push things taking steps behind but is still rather wobbly. She does do a lot of standing and holding on with one hand. Baby steps:)  She is not nearly as close to walking as we had thought she might be at this point. And that is ok!

She is truly a joy and is becoming such a fun little companion. I love seeing her personality evolve.

She is growing too fast. Goodness how fast time flies.

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