At the park with baby Kingston

Our friend Marjeri and her son Kingston go walking with us all the time. We usually walk from our house to their house and then off to the park near Adobe bluffs elementary. This time I decided to bring the camera with me. It's always super cute to watch you two hang out. Kingston is 3 months younger but is already crawling so now that you are both mobile and can get around, you've gotten pretty acquainted with each other, it's pretty cute to see. You take each others toys and put them in your mouths. You grab each other's face too. Kingston launched himself at you once and you got pushed onto your back and didn't know what had happened. You were a typical girl and he was a typical boy, super cute!... and another night your two heads got bumped together and it looked like you kissed, :). We might have to keep an eye on you two!

Sporting the tiny pony tail look

You guys were pretty serious at first ...

Then something funny must have happened

Just enjoying yourselves on a beautiful San Diego day

Standing

Since I have made this video, you have learned how to get from one side of the pack'n play to the other, pretty cool!

Never too young or too old to be Silly!

So daddy decided to have a little fun at your expense a few nights ago... he tried to make you look really silly, I of course had to take pictures and now we can't help but laugh every time we see them. You're quite an entertainer!

It all started with a bubble beard

... then the bubble nose was added

... well and then the bubble Mohawk came along for a complete look

You were a great sport, smiled as big as you possibly could, probably because we were laughing so much while doing this. Sorry but we gotta have a little fun too. Even with all the silliness you are still so darn cute!

Ok here is one more, I put you in a laundry basket and at first you sat there like a good little girl, but then you started to pull up and rock in it, then I was able to catch you mid flight as the basket was tipping over on its side... and you successfully crawled out of it.  It's definitely much harder to take posed pictures of you these days, but the candid ones turn out well, and sometimes I like those better than the posed anyways...

Peek - a - boo!

First teeth... yes there are actually 2 and not 1!

I think it should have been plural in the previous post, because it looks like both of the front teeth came at the same time... I put them as 1 day apart just because I thought that the left one peaked out first. Congratulations on your 2 little teeth, you are no longer a toothless little munchkin. :)

First tooth

Munchkin got her first tooth. Horray! For the past few days you've been sticking your tongue out like crazy and licking your lips as well as folding your lower lip where I can't even see it, not sure how good that it to teethe on your lip. I give you plenty of teething toys to put in your mouth but seems like sometimes you prefer your lip.

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.