9 Months

This sweet girl is 9 months old!

Stats:

Weight: 19 lbs 4 oz (67th percentile)

Height: 28.75 inches (87th percentile)

She is a great baby and we love her! She sleeps through the night, with 2 naps a day. She has 4 teeth, 2 on top and 2 on bottom. She loves to clap her hands and will often do so when I say "Good job." She will sometimes wave when you wave "goodbye" or "hello". She loves bath time and after we are done, she will always crawl as fast as she can back to the bath tub. She loves mommy and will cry when I put her down or walk away (unless she is properly distracted). She is a happy screamer, and definitely likes to be heard! She doesn't like to be restrained, so she will cry when I hold her hands to wash them off. She is good at keeping things away from you when you try to take it out of her hands. She loves to free fall, and is constantly throwing herself backwards, so you have to always be ready to catch her! Daddy's favorite thing is when she tries to blow back at you when you blow on her face. It's pretty adorable. She also tries to return kisses.

Big enough to ride in the grocery cart when her brother isn't with us:

She can pull herself up on all the furniture:

She loves balls of all sizes!

  She is a pro at crawling. She chases us all around the house:

And only stops to try and eat something:

 Playing Duplos with her brother:

She is a good eater, and likes food she can feed herself like cheerios. P1 likes to try and feed her when mom isn't watching. 

She enjoys sharing a room with her brother. They are always laughing and playing before and after naps. One time after their naps, P1 wanted P2 to come play in his crib. They had so much fun they didn't want to get out.

She loves books. Recently she ate a flap off one the books. Chewed it right off and tried to choke on it.

P1 wanting to hold his sister, P2 trying to crawl away:

Photos of P1

P1 fell asleep in the car on the way home from Discovery Gateway. My mom carried his whole car seat in so as to not wake him up. I thought he would wake up for sure, but he surprised me and took a nice nap in the hallway. He was very confused when he woke up though!

P1 likes to play in his crib. One day after they both woke up from naps, he wanted P2 to come in his crib. They played together while I cooked dinner (but I had to come back and take pictures!).

 

Carrying around his basket all day! 

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

We went to a neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday. We had a potluck breakfast and each house in the circle hosted an egg hunt for a different age group.

Each family was supposed to drop off a dozen filled eggs by Friday night for each child participating. So I took a bag over on Friday, and P1 was very upset when I didn't come back with it. I explained that in the morning we would come back and go on a treasure hunt for the eggs. He got really excited about it and kept asking if it was time to go get the eggs. In the mornings, he usually wants to keep his pajamas on for a while, but on Saturday morning he wanted to put his clothes on right away so that we could go.

P1 had a blast! The kids were supposed to stop after finding 12 eggs, but he kept on going (so I kept on dropping eggs behind us). He was thrilled that they had treats in them. We ended up putting the treats out of reach after he started helping himself to them. But he is still carrying around the basket and playing with the eggs.

It was really nice and laid back, and it was great to socialize with neighbors. It was also a beautiful day. I'm glad we went!!!

St. Patrick's Day

We had a fun St. Patrick's Day!!! The night before I made a rainbow and a pot of gold for P1 to find. He loved it! And he is still carrying around his gold and playing with it.

For breakfast we made green eggs and ham. That is P1's favorite book right now and we read it a lot! P1 can read a lot of it with you too.

P1 wasn't thrilled about actually eating the green omelet though. We had to read the book a few times and emphasize the part where he finally tries the green eggs and ham and likes them. P1 finally ate some of it and decided it wasn't yucky.

Then we did some coloring:

For lunch we made shamrock quesadillas with spinach tortillas.

 For dinner we ate green noodles. It was the mix of colored noodles, which was good because P1 refused to eat the green ones. He really liked the orange ones though. I just did a red meat sauce, but next year I should do a green pesto sauce.

For dessert we had a green Oreo Cookie Bark treat. It was good, but ended up being a pain to make. Maybe we'll just do green jello for next year. Or maybe a green smoothie.

And we ended the night playing Irish jigs on the piano!