9 months

On December 22 Brynn turned 9 months old! I can't believe that is 3/4 of the way to ONE YEAR! 

9 months old! 

 Special notes about this month include...

• She weighs about 19 1/2 pounds (although we will find out for sure when she has her 9 month appointment at the beginning of January).
• She wears mostly 9-12 month clothes.
• Size 3 diaper
• Daily schedule goes something like this...wake up around 6:45 or 6:50 (at least half the time she is awake in her crib playing and we don't have to wake her up)...5 oz. bottle or nurse at 7:30ish followed by some oatmeal and 1/2 container of fruit.  Morning nap from about 9:15-10:15 (almost always has to be woken up...we don't give her much longer than an hour so she will take a good afternoon nap).  Around 11:45 or 12 she will take a 5 oz. bottle or nurse, followed by half container of veggies.  Afternoon nap from about 1-3ish.  For "supper" she nurses around 5 and then has half a container of fruits, 1/2 container of veggies, and then either a little oatmeal or some baby food "meat."  Nurses around 7:45 or 8 and bedtime.
• She loves to feed herself in her highchair or out at a restaurant, and loves puffs, yogart melts, and little pieces of banana.
• She is still exclusively breast-fed!  WOW!  Never in a million years did I think I would make it this long!  The sitter gives her bottles of milk that I pump before school and I also pump during lunch (my social life over lunch is non-existent..haha!)
• This month she started pulling up and crawling (real crawling, not army crawling) like crazy!  
• She babbles a lot...and says mamamama, bababababa, and dadadada (I realize she probably doesn't know that mama means me, but it is still awesome to hear her say it.)
• She also tries to mimick us when we say "uh-oh" (like if she tips something over or drops something from her high chair).  She likes to blow air...she will watch me blow and she will do it...it is so funny!  She is pretty verbal...nothing makes sense but she loves to make lots of noises! 
• When she likes something or wants something she will look at it and reach her hand out and make this noise like "oooo oooo oooo."  She makes her mouth into this little circle while she says "ooo" (Lauren it looks like cat mouth! HA)
• She puts everything in her mouth...I'm hoping eventually she will realize that books are for reading and looking at pictures, not eating!
• Favorite toys include her soft babies and her little people Nativity Set this month.
• She loves PEOPLE...especially all the kids at Nonna's and Ansley and friends from church.  The only problem is they want to play with her, and she thinks that "playing" with them means pulling their hair and hitting them on the head! HA!  We are trying to show her how to be "gentle" but I don't think she is getting is yet.  =) 
• She hasn't seemed to show any separation anxiety lately...with Thanksgiving and Christmas stuff there were tons of new people that wanted to hold and play with her.  She never seemed to mind at all...I was kind of surprised.
• She is just such an easy baby...is so content to play with people or by herself, goes down for naps and bedtime SO WELL, great sleeper, etc.  We know we have it GOOD!  (Several people have told us we better watch out because the next one will probably be the opposite! HA!  And no...we aren't even thinking about the next one yet.)





As she has gotten older it's been interesting to hear who people think she looks like.  When she was first born she looked identical to Ryan's baby pictures.  It seems like lately more people can see SOME of me in her, and sometimes I will think "wow, that reminds me a lot of my baby pictures."  But I think that more people still say she looks like Ryan.