Nine Months Old

At Nine Months Old Abigail...

the Giggle

...sleeps 12 hours at night. 8/8:30pm-8/8:30am. She wakes up at 6am to say goodbye to Daddy and nurse. Her morning nap has been a little later lately, over lunch time, and is sometimes longer than her afternoon nap. We can't be transitioning to one nap a day yet... that's not for like another year, right? 

...eats and loves it. She's on baby cereal and purees but we also let her feed herself with soft little pieces. Her new foods this month were: barley cereal, hard-boiled egg yolks, peaches (in her mesh feeder), pureed mango, applesauce, baby Yogurt Bites, Cheerios, and Fruit Loops.  She nurses 3- 4 times a day (breakfast, early afternoon, sometimes supper, and bedtime) and she eats solid food 3 times a day. She cut one more tooth (her right "lateral incisor") so she has 6 total. She's taken a bottle for Daddy and both grandma's now. Yay!

...plays and smiles all the time! Loves mirrors and Peek-a-Boo and looking at books. She will help you turn the pages which is fun. Board books only because she still chews on everything! 

...is starting to move. She completely turns around on her belly and moves backward. She can stand up by things (not cruising along stuff, just stand there and hold on). She prefers to sleep sideways in her crib now, facing the doorway, and it's impossible to sneak in on her now. She always pokes her head up and smiles like, "I caught you!" Any time a drawer, cupboard, refrigerator or freezer are open she is instantly there (in her walker) to take anything she can reach and throw it on the floor. Her giraffe always ends up on the backseat because she throws it out of her car seat. We can't take it into stores anymore because she'll just throw it when I'm not looking I think. Silly girl!

...wears 12 months clothes, size 3 shoes , and size 3 diapers (and cloth diapers).

...weighs 19 lbs. 15 oz. and is 28 inches long.

Here is her eight month post.

Bye-Bye