9 Months Old

Baby Kate is nine months old today! It is so amazing that have already had her in our lives for nine months. It is going by so incredibly fast. She is an amazingly sweet baby girl and always has a big grin on her face as long as Mommy is close by. She has definitely hit the 'Mommy' phase. She continues to be happy just sitting, playing with her toys and is only just now starting to stretch for things that are out of her reach. She will roll onto her tummy and then just continue to stretch until she either gets it or rolls over and finds something else to make her happy. We genuinely thought she would be crawling by now, but she seems in no big rush to do so. It's nice as Rachel was in a huge rush to do everything and Noah never did crawl - he just went straight to furniture walking. In the last couple of days she has become very interested in standing and trying to pull up to a standing position while holding onto my fingers. She LOVES to eat - everything that she can get into her mouth or con the people who love her into giving her. She still loves her baby food and we have started size threes along with soft regular food. She adores peas - will eat several serving size spoonfuls if you let her. She loves green beans, asparagus, bananas, applesauce, any kind of noodles, any kind of bread, she had black beans last night, quasadillas.. if she can chew it, she usually likes it. She has moved up to size three diapers -we just finished out the last handful of Grammy's stash of two's yesterday. She is wearing 6 to 9 months and some 12 month clothing. She sleeps from about 7 pm to 8 am since Noah is out of school - next week we will transition back to 6:30 am wake ups. We've all really gotten used to that extra hour and a half! She loves to play with her toys - anything with buttons. She loves the phones and remotes as well... buttons again. ;) Her sweet smile is enough to brighten our day and we love her to bits as always. Tomorrow she has her 9 month well baby - no shots, thank goodness, but we are interested to see her percentages.

UPDATE:

Just back from Kate's 9 Month Well Baby appointment. She is 27 1/2 inches long (50%) and weighs in at 15lbs 5 oz (5%). She is a teeny thing, but Dr. Bean says she is growing in height and that is what is most important. If her bones weren't growing there would be a big problem, but she has continued with regular growth in height, so she is fine. Her development is perfect and she checks out great! She's just a petite little thing.