Blakely is 9 Months Old!

Here she is with her cute little smile! She smiles so big and shows her gums off! (still no teeth)

She is saying "I'm 9 months old!" Wow...I can't believe it either baby girl!

Had a little trouble keeping the stickers on this month or getting too many pictures. She is always on the move!

Her expressions just crack us up!

Trying to get her month sticker off....

Success.

Here we are at 9 months, wow - this is how long I was pregnant with her! She has been changing so much recently, it feels like each day she is doing something new!

• Her expressions are so cute and she is now pouting, smiling, and cheesing it up (aka smiling REALLY, REALLY big). She is getting really loud, yelling and shrieking even more than before! She stills says "dada" A LOT but has added "baba" and even a "mama" in there now and then. She knows her name and turns to you when you say it, I think she is also starting to recognize what her toys/books/mama/dada and other things are.

• She started crawling all over the place, turns and sits and then starts going again. She is pulling herself up grabbing onto anything she can find to help her, usually its one of us (mommy or daddy). She holds onto the coffee table and cruises around it. The other day as she was walking along the coffee table she just turned and started walking - the girl has no fear! She has been taking steps for a while but has really been getting more steady with them recently!

• She is eating 3 meals of baby food a day in addition to her bottles and we have started giving her some of our food too! She will try anything and the expressions that she makes are hilarious! She also "snacks" on puffs and she grabs them so well with her thumb and pointer finger. Blakely absolutely LOVES her sippy cup and water, at restaurants we have started giving her some drops of water from our straws and she just goes nuts over it!

• We have been going on lots of walks and playing outside now that it has started to warm up and she loves it! Blakely is a book fanatic, she will go over to her book box and take them all out and go through each of them. She loves when we read to her and will "help" us turn the pages. We went to the library for the 1st time and checked out some new books to read together. Also, she has started playing "Where's Blakely" and will hold a blanket or her clothes over her head and then pull it down and laugh...so cute! She has started cuddling more recently and will just lay her head on your shoulder - I just try and soak it all in! I just want to start bawling because I am so full of happiness when she does that.

• At her 9 months doctor's appointment she weighed 21 lbs, 14ozs. She was 27 in. long, she has dropped to the 90%. She is just perfect, right on her growth curve! She had a little stranger anxiety with Dr. Slaymaker but generally she does pretty well with new people and places.

• Sleeping is going well, she usually goes down around 7:30 and sleeps until 6:30 or 7am, sometimes she wakes up during the night once, sometimes twice but usually sleeps through the whole night. We are still rocking her to sleep at night and for her naps and I know that it will need to change soon but for now I just love holding her in my arms and watching her sweet face!

• We have started wearing some of her spring/summer clothes and they are 12-18months and fit just right! She still wears a size 3 diaper but we are getting close to moving on up to 4's!

• She loves spending time with her grandparents, aunts and uncles - she is so lucky to have so many people that love her so much and she loves them too! Her face just lights up when she sees them and that just warms my heart too!
  

-Mrs.