9 Months Old

Happy 9th Months Miss Svea!  Wow, what a month....we've had lots of firsts and many fun times this past month!  Here's what you've been up to!

 You started crawling and then not a week later standing up on your own.  You also started saying your first word....ba-bye!  Daddy said good-bye to you the other day and you threw your arm up and waved to him.  A few days later you added the ba-bye! We are working on trying to catch this on video!

 Mommy took you to your 9 month appointment today and you weigh 17 lbs and 10 ounces (50%) and 28 inches long (50%).  Your head size was in the 85% percentile or something...your brain must be growing since you've gotten so smart in the last month, ha! I tried getting you to say ba-bye to your dr. today, but you'd just smile and turn into my neck like you were shy.

 You are a very sweet baby.  You love to smile, giggle, and laugh. Your Daddy makes you laugh the most...you think he's hilarious.  You are sleeping through the night (8 pm- 7:30 am) except for the occasional night when you'll wake up and not be able to put yourself back to sleep.  You take two naps a day.  One of them is long (1 1/2 hours) and the other is usually short (1/2 hour).

 You wear size 6-9 month clothes and size 3 diaper.  You nurse five times a day and eat baby food twice a day.  This includes rice cereal, veggies, fruit, and a little meat.  You also took off with eating your puffs this month.  You LOVE them!  You like the yellow veggies better than the green ones and you'll eat pretty much any type of fruit. We'll start some table food now, but slowly.  We tried watermelon one day and you threw up....a lot!  Then I changed you to put you in the tub and you peed on me.  The dr. said you have quite the gag reflex (I can guess where you got that) so we'll take things slowly.

Svea, you are now on the move and are starting to go all over the house.  I'm sure by next month we'll be posting that you are walking around holding onto the furniture, which is scary to us!  You're our little girl and we love you so much.  Stop getting so big:)