9 months!

Sister bear you are 9 months old!  I can't believe it.  It seems like you have been in our lives forever.  You have been learning and doing so much lately that it really reminds me that you as a baby is slipping by way to fast. :(  Here is what you are up to these days.

1)  You wear a size 3 diaper and 6/9 and 12 month clothes.  Any pants besides leggings are way to big in the waist though.  Looks like we might just live in leggings like your sister this winter.

2)  You are super happy many times and can give the biggest smiles though.  Watch out though because you can go from a look like this to screaming and crying in 5 seconds! HA! 

3)  You are happiest on the go.  You love to stroller around in the stroller and look at everything or ride in the carrier on the front of me.  You are still not a big fan of the car though. 

4)  You are a pretty good eater.  You nurse about 5 or 6 times a day and eat 2 "meals" with us.  You prefer to pick up food and feed yourself but do also like the purees.  Mommy has even given you some samples here or there of some big people food. :)

5)  You have the army crawl completely perfected and can get everywhere fast!  You have started to get up in the "real" crawl stance the last few days and take a few "steps."  You can also go from a crawl to a sit now so I think you will soon realize that crawling on your hands and knees is much faster than the army crawl.  I even saw you pull up on a couple of things today. 

6) You are still in the 3 to 2 nap transistion.  Sometimes there is a 1 hour morning nap and then a 2 hour afternoon nap and then other times you take 3 1-hour naps. 

7)  You go to bed at 8 and on a good night and are usually up at least once or twice.  You usually spend from about 3 am on tucked into bed with mommy.



8)  You can make some pretty funny faces that really make me laugh and seem to always be doing something with your tongue!

9) We are enjoying the cooler weather and had chilly trip to the zoo.  I am loving you in your little hoodies. :)

10)  Some days you seem so big to me and other days you seem so little.  On this day we took you to a HAlloween party in your ghost shirt and you seemed so big to me! Slow down sister stop growing so fast! 





11)  You really love to play upstairs in the play room and can crawl into the tent.  Sugie is always telling me to take you upstairs so that she can play with you in the tent or play puzzles with you.  Of course your idea of playing puzzles is eating the pieces.

We love you so much sister bear and are enjoying watching you grow and change.  I just wish it wasn't happening so fast!  Love you sister bear!