Baby Girl: 9 Months

Holy cow. Brynn is a mover now. She wants to be crawling and climbing all over everything. She's still very happy and rarely cries unless provoked. She's a great eater and wants to try all our food. She's starting to feed herself finger foods but it's still quite difficult for her.

Most of the pictures looked like this during this month's photos:

 

Family pictures...this is about all we got out of Brynn.

Brynn started the month climing on the slide like this...

...and ended the month climbing the slide like this.

She played with Augi the Doggie.

Showed Great Grandma what a great climber she is becoming.

Learned to climb stairs.

She is thrilled with herself any time she learns to pull herself up on something.

First time swimming in the little pool.

Likes 
Eating real food

Standing

Watching Tate be silly

Playing with Tate's toys  Splashing in the tub

Hates  
Holding still for diaper changes 
Being put in the bouncer 
Not being allowed to play with cell phones and computers

Happy 9 Months, Baby Girl!

--> Weight: 18 pounds 8 ounces   Height: 27 inches
Clothing Size: 6-9 months, some 9-12 months  
Diaper Size: In cloth diapers but would be in size 3   
Milestones: Real crawling when it's not easy or is uncomfortable to drag herself across the ground. Pulling herself to standing on EVERYTHING. Going up stairs. Clapping.  
Eating: Brynn usually wakes up around 6 or 7am and nurses then will eat breakfast about an hour later. I want her to continue to want to nurse but she seems less and less interested. When she sees food she bounces around and grunts and reaches for it. Starting to feed herself. Eating everything.
Sleeping: She usually naps 2 times a day (sometimes 3 if she wakes up really early in the morning). These naps are generally 2 hours, unless interrupted by a screaming brother, she will sometimes sleep even longer than that. Her night-time sleeping has been even worse the last week or so. She's getting her top two teeth (which is what is obviously to blame for this horrible sleep she's getting at night) and they are so close to coming in so hopefully she'll be sleeping better soon. She sleeps in about 2-3 hour spurts at night then wakes up crying and cannot get herself back to sleep. Nothing soothes her except nursing. I really want to try a binki but I'm pretty sure she won't take one. This 2-3 hour spurt goes on throughout the night. She is usually sleeping by 7:30pm and wakes up for real between 6:30 and 7:30.
Communication: Lots of dada, yelling, gets really talkative when she's tired, blowing raspberries, lots of jabbering,
Nicknames: Brynners, Baby Brynn, Brynnie

*Tate's 9 month update

Baby H.--9 Months

Baby is getting so big.  The other day, I looked down at this baby who was feeding himself, taking up most of my lap, and thought, "Holy moley baby! When the heck did this happen?"

This picture was so hard to get.

 

Most pictures taken today looked more like this one.  He does not like to sit still.

At the beginning of the month, he was standing up and pulling himself up.

Eating (gnawing) on apples at Grandma's house.

Baby sleeps in such awkward positions.  Seriously, that can't be comfortable.

Happy first official Mother's Day to me!

Baby began eating real food because baby food is for babies...other babies.

Pears are delicious.

The very sad and very happy faces of Baby H.

He spends a good portion of his day walking all around the couch.

Baby started letting go of the couch and trying to walk toward me a few days before his 9 month birthday.  Please ignore my high pitched mommy voice.

This is not the greatest example but it's the best one I could get when trying to coax him off the couch and record at the same time.

I'm pretty sure more teeth are coming in.  His fingers are in his mouth more often than not.

And with shorts season comes blowing raspberries.

Oh, man!  This kid is growing up too quickly!

9 Month Stats

Weight: 20 pounds 9 ounces (49%)

Height: 29 inches (78%)

Head: 18.5 inches (90%)