Baby turned nine months a couple days ago and she is just busy growing as ever. At nine months she is even so MUCH MORE chatty and loud. She loves to hear her own voice and will try to mimic noises she hears. We can also sorta have a "conversation" with her (we make a noise and she makes a noise back). She has learned to make all sorts of different sounds lately and the latest is a funny "throat-like" singing noise, it's crazy. She is so loud at church that it's pretty funny, I hope people aren't bugged. (oh well if they are)
She is such a good little crawler now and can move sooo fast. She loves exploring the house, following mom and dad, and trying to go as fast as she can towards the dog food. ( that is a fun game for her because mom says no, which means go fast cuz' mom is coming for me). With crawling comes a lot of mischief which means being told "no" a lot. I know that she knows "no no's" because she shakes her head "no" as she crawls to or is touching something that's been deemed a "no no". She is too smart!
She loves to stand....really, she NEVER sits! She actually stood up all by herself yesterday without holding on to anything for 5 seconds! I think she will be walking in the next few months. She is moving from one piece of furniture to the next is pulls herself up to everything. She loves to "walk" around the house while we hold her hands. She dictates where she wants to go and it's usually to find mom or dad. She goes so fast that her little legs can barely keep up.
She loves to eat and she eats everything! She still loves to nurse, eat baby food and cereal but now she is loving more solids. She loves cut up fruit and the little puff finger foods. She also is OBSESSED with eating off of our plates. Seriously, she freaks out (crying, kicking, screaming) if we don't give her food from our plate. So she is eating A LOT and is trying so many new foods. It's pretty fun!
Soooo, our trip to Utah turned her into "monster baby" that showed up every night, all night. She was up every couple hours and would cry if she wasn't held. Anyway, it was awful and we couldn't do it any longer. So we did the cry it out method a couple weeks ago and it worked. We only had to make her cry one night and then after that she has been sleeping through the night. HALLELUJAH! She cried for 45 minutes (good thing Brock was here to hold me down-so hard to not go in there) and then crumpled in a corner in her crib. She slept the WHOLE night through that night and pretty much has ever since. Naps have been better to! The only downside is that lately she is ready to go at 5:30 every morning. I'll take that over being up all night though:)
I'm not quite sure what she weighs right now because we haven't been to the Doc yet but I think she has lost weight since she has been crawling. We'll find out this week:)
The weather has been pretty crappy and cold so we've been stuck inside but we've gotten out a bit. We bought a jogger/bike trailer and baby loves it. I can't wait to spend more time outside as it gets warmer!
Blakely is such a sweet happy little bug and we are so blessed to have her. I still sometimes can't believe that she is ours and that we get to have her forever. What a wonderful blessing Eternal Families are.
Pro-Crawler
Manly Appetite
Nighttime Sleeper
Contagious Laugh
Love the puppies-pulls fists full of Brutus' hair out
A "guzzler"-loves the juice:)
Plays independently really well
Loves to sing songs
Loses interest in reading "her" scriptures-we can make it through an entire book but if we pull out her "My First Book of Mormon" and try to read she loses interest fast. It must be because it "scripture" :)
Loves, Loves, LOVES when Daddy gets home-waits by the door when she hears the garage open
She follows us around the house whining when she wants us
Will not keep shoes and socks on-argh!
Sleeps with 2-3 binks-usually throws two over and there is one left to suck on. Or she sleeps with one in her hand
Comes into our bed every morning at 5:30 and crawls all over us and scratches our faces-this is better than getting up that early
Still really social and likes to be noticed by people
