At 9 months, Presley is a crawling pro. She is FAST. She spends the day crawling to things she wants, pulling herself to standing, cruising along (and sometimes even standing unassisted for a few seconds), sitting down on her bum and then crawling to the next item. She is one busy kid. She even climbs the stairs now (hello, baby gate...how I've missed you). She is babbling a lot more and says "dadada" and "mamama" but I wouldn't classify her as talking yet as they really just seem to be noises she's repeating back to us.
Her favorite toys are her Little People farm and my old wooden blocks. She likes to look at (and eat) board books. She shows LOTS of interest in whatever her sister happens to be playing with at the moment.
Her favorite activities are going for walks in the Beco, the wrap or the stroller, unloading the dishwasher (I'm not kidding...if she even hears the dishwasher open, she comes a crawlin'!), having baths (but refuses to sit for them anymore) and being outside. She loves crawling around on the grass and inspecting leaves and twigs.
Presley has decided she is over baby food. I've been making all her purees to date and now she refuses them. She'd much rather have finger food and more often than not, she gets what we eat. Her favorites include muffins, banana bread, barbecued hamburgers, Cheerios and watermelon. She mistakenly had her sister's peanut butter and crackers last week and is fine with that. She is still exclusively breastfed and gets around 5 feeds a day that way. She's drinking water from a sippy cup easily. She now has 2 teeth to help her with all that eating.
Sleep. Well, we're all over the board. She likes to keep me guessing and will sleep 12 hours straight for a week, then do a week of 4am feeds and then toss in the odd 130am feed just to keep me on my toes. Just when I think she'll never sleep through again, she'll get back to it. I know we could just sleep train her (she probably doesn't need the night feeds) but we don't. So I don't ever complain about the night time feeds. She is a great napper and has 2 naps a day of a minimum of 2 hours each.
Presley weighs 17 pounds and 11 ounces which puts her in the 28th percentile. She measures 28 inches long which puts her in the 58th percentile. She is still wearing 0-3 month dresses and 3-6 month everything else. She's in size 2 diapers.
Things I never want to forget:
- how she makes a beeline for the door when she hears Shawn come home.
- how you can't wipe the grin from her face when you're pushing her on the swings.
- how peaceful it is to breastfeed your last baby in the middle of the night when the rest of the house is sleeping. It's just her and I.
5 comments:
And she is just so damn cute!
Happy 9 months!
So adorable! And I have a dishwasher fan too...I wonder if we can keep them liking that chore into their teen years?
Oh I just LOVE her little pony tail - SO CUTE!!!!!!!!
Holy cow, she is looking big. I think this is the first month that her look is beginning to change. Happy 9 months!
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