9 Months Old

Where has this time gone, and how did our baby get so big?!? You are developing such a cute personality as you grow, and we just love you to pieces.

I thought taking pictures of you would get easier as you got older and could sit better. But I guess I didn't realize you would be grabbing everything.

Here is what you are up to at 9 months:

• Weight: 19 pounds 10 ounces (67th percentile)
• Length: 27.5 inches (54th percentile)
• Clothes: You are wearing 6-12 months clothes.
• Shoes: You wear a size 2 shoe. We hardly put shoes on you because you can kick them off faster than we can put them on you.
• Diapers: Size 3 Pampers and Bumgenius cloth diapers when we can
• Food: You are a good eater. You like the orange stuff a little more than the green still bt will eat almost any vege. You decided this month that you don't like bananas. We will have to try them in the future again. You have tried carrots, peas, sweet potatoes, squash, mashed potatoes, pears, applesauce, prunes, banana, cereal, avocado, peaches. New foods this month: kiwi and pancakes. I still make all of your food (except cereal), and you eat two cubes of vege and two cubes of fruit for lunch and dinner. You eat two cubes of fruit with your cereal at breakfast. And we recently started giving you a mid afternoon snack of either kiwi or yougart and puffs. In the last week you have learned how to pick the puffs up with your fingers and put them in your mouth. You nurse in the morning, and have a 4 oz bottle with each meal almost always breastmilk. You usually only have one bottle of formula a day which is 6 oz at bedtime. You drink water with your meals, and you are pretty good at drinking out of a cup. You like to bounce your cup on your tray or check out the bottom of it which leads to spills...oh well.
• Development: You have mastered the sitting and can even pull yourself up on your knees if you are sitting close to something that you can hold on to. You still rock on your knees and can crawl backwards. Very little movement forward. You will stand while holding onto toys or furniture for long periods of time. One of your favorite things to do is bounce and dance while you stand or sit. You just started to wave bye-bye. You love to give kisses (they are pretty sloppy but we don't mind).
• Words: None 
• Sleep: You are such a great sleeper. You go to bed at about 7:15 every night and wake up between 6:15 and 6:45 am. You take a 1 to 2 hour nap in the morning and a 30 minute to one hour nap in the afternoon (sometimes two afternoon naps). You wake up on your belly most mornings. When you wake up in the morning you just babble for a while. When we come get you, you push yourself up on your arms, smile, and rock back and forth. You are the happiest person in the morning!
• Teeth: You got your first tooth on December 17. Your right lower central incisor.
• What I love about you: You love to talk and smile. And dancing is your new thing. You are constantly bouncing when we hold you or when you stand. You have said da-da and ma-ma a few times but all were pure accidents. You definitely know who we are you just can't get the words out yet. We love spending every minute with you!