9 Months

Pulling up

Standing

Hi mommy!

Don't I look adorable in my dress and a matching hat?

You seem to be getting bigger by the minute. Your biggest accomplishment this month was of course crawling... you're not cruising just yet, but you're getting pretty fast at scooting. Also I have seen you pull up from sitting position in your crib once. You have 2 teeth coming in, and they're getting closer and closer, i think one of them will cut through any day now.

Your stats this month are:
weight - 16 lbs 10 oz - 13%
height - 27.5 inches - 47%
head circ 16.5 - 5%

Nights have been pretty good, your bedtime begins around 8pm, but I've noticed that you don't settled down until about 9pm sometimes. You roll around in your crib, sometimes getting your legs stuck between the crib posts and finally you go to sleep (usually on your tummy - the doctor said it's perfectly fine). You wake up sometime around 7 or 8 am.

Generally you smile at people all the time, and have a very cute and social disposition. You love going on walks, and even riding in the car if you're not sleeping you're looking all around watching as we pass by places and things. You love to hear stories, look at the pictures, and you grab books as we read to you, and even turn pages... or close the books. Your baths are a lot of fun, you splash around, play with your toys and get really upset if we take a toy from you when taking you out of the bath, so we've just let you continue playing with one while drying you off. You're continuing to take 2 naps a day and now cutting back to 3 bottles a day. The doctor said it's ok to start feeding you table foods so now we gotta start you on some meats and pastas. May be I'll try to do the jars first to see how you do with that, since I am not sure you're ready for finger foods yet. You grab things with your fingers but it usually ends up on the floor or in your high chair.
We went on our first trip away from home to go visit our friends in LA, so for 2 nights you slept in the Pack and Play in an unfamiliar place. You did great! So I am really looking forward to going to more places and bringing you along with us.