Nine Months Holy Cow!

 Our sweet baby girl is not much of a baby any more. She's three quarters of the way to being a toddler! Have I mentioned how fast time flies? Every day Addie is more and more fun to be around. We go to swim lessons every Monday morning where Coach Eric has taught Addie how to swim underwater for seven whole seconds! On Tuesdays or Wednesdays we go to storytime at the public library where we sing songs, read books, and play with other babies. We even ran into our former AP, Cassie there one week! Addie loves her LeapFrog Learn & Groove Musical Table because it does so many different things and she gets to feel like a big girl as she stands around it. She's not yet crawling (not that I mind!) but she still gets where she wants to go by scooting on her bottom or pseudo-crawling backward or rolling. It's fun going into her room every morning to see what crazy position she wound up in during the night. She's like her mama and prefers sleeping on her stomach whenever she gets the chance. I still put her to sleep on her back but she flips back and forth through the night. She's eating everything in sight and I'm so glad we did Baby Led Solids (or Baby Led Weaning). I'm not the typical parent; Addie has actually never had a jar of babyfood and has only eaten two pureed foods. She prefers to feed herself (stubborn like her mom) so we give her appropriate sized cooked foods that she can pick up. Her current favorite food is ground beef or roast... THAT she gets from her daddy. She also just learned how to drink from a straw so of course I ran out to Target the next day to get her a straw sippy. We'll be celebrating her birthday before we know it!

"No thanks Mom, I'd rather read." She grabbed this book off the nightstand.

Smile!

Such a happy munchkin!

::smack:: "So, are we almost done here?"

Daddy came in the room.

"I love my bunny SOOO much!!"

"And this is what I think of my bow." She started ripping her bows off at exactly nine months. Oh well, at least I got eight easy months of accessorizing her!

"No more pictures!"

Sleep Success

As I'm blogging, Addie is next to me in her Rock 'n Play putting herself to sleep. Our day was way off schedule, so I knew bedtime would be an adventure. We slept in today until 11:00 AM before heading out to brunch at Z'tejas around 11:30. She took a nap from about 2-3 PM and then again from about 6-7:15 PM. My little giraffe usually naps twice a day if we're lucky for about 30 min - 1 hour tops. After her last nursing she was still wide awake so I put her in the RnP next to me as I blogged in the dark. It took about 25 minutes, but I'm about 98% certain she's asleep. She talked to herself for most of the time, but slowly drifted off, needing her paci only once.

I must say, I missed her falling asleep while nursing. I am glad that we've transitioned her from sleeping in the swing (since day 5) to now sleeping in the RnP. It's safer and I don't have to get out of bed on the rare occasion that she should awake. If you don't have one, get one. Trust me.