9 months

On October 1st my precious little girl turned 9 months old! I can't believe how fast the months are flying by! I just love seeing her growing and changing - life is such a miracle.

So what has my girl been up to lately??

• Growing! Lily weighs around 18 lbs now! 
• She wears mostly 6-9 months clothes, but still fits into some 6 month stuff. She is between a size 2 and 3 shoe right now, so nothing really fits well. 
• She pulls up on everything and "walks" along the furniture.

• She loves to eat, but won't have anything to do with baby food. She loves to feed herself and she still eats everything we put in front of her.
• She's just started crawling, but goes back to scooting if she's trying to get somewhere fast. ha!

• She "talks" all the time and tries to say lots of words. She does this funny thing where if we tell her to say Ma-Ma or Da-Da or whatever and other people are around, she'll start mouthing it instead of saying it out loud. 
• She has 4 teeth that are cut through and 3 more that are about to come in. Poor baby has been kind of cranky lately and I suppose that's the reason. Oh, and everything goes in her mouth!

• She just moved out of her infant seat into a rear facing carseat! She seems to really like it - and mommy loves not having to lug her in and out in the infant seat!
• She's playing with her toys more and occupying herself for longer periods of time.

• She bounces up and down to any kind of beat - whether it's little brother's heartbeat on the doppler, Daddy practicing or teaching violin, Baby Einstein toys, or music in the grocery store.

• She loves doing Patty-Cake and she claps for herself when we say "Yay Lily" after she does something we tell her to do.

• She usually will wave "hi" and "bye," but not always. She's waving to our two chocolate labs in the picture.

•  She loves getting into everything exploring!

She is my sweet girl. I love being her Mama!