The Life & Times of The FOUR Wheeler's: Hayden's 9 months old today!

Monday, December 1, 2008

Hayden's 9 months old today!

And I'm 28 years old today! :( I never had any issues with each coming birthday in the past, but for some reason, 28 has done a number on me. I'm just totally resigned to it and am sad...time sure flies. Anyways...the reason for this post was to be Hayden's 9 month updates!!

I swear that this month was my favorite now! ;) She is doing and learning so many cute things!! She makes me smile every day and I would do anything to make her happy! :)

For some reason, our pediatrician doesn't do 9 month well checks (just fine by me, since it's out of pocket and she doesn't need any immunizations). But, she went in a few weeks ago for an ear infection and weighed 20 pounds even and was 27 inches. She is still in a size 3 diaper and mostly 9 month clothes, depending on brand. She still has the same four teeth, but you can see her upper centrals (#e & f) just under the gums! No wonder she's been biting everything (& everyone!) in sight!

Milestones:

Standing very well and cruising along and between furniture (she'll walk sooner than later I think!)

She is standing unassisted for a few seconds before she realizes it and then falls over!
She is so very careful when she gets down from a standing position!

She finally figured out that the traditional crawl is much faster than the belly crawl!

She would rather feed herself than get anything from a spoon, which is oh so fun for mommy! She's eating all sorts of table food and loved cranberry sauce during thanksgiving dinner!
She is very vocal lately...all sorts of words!

She is quite the mimic now...she snorted at me so I did it back and then all day she would look at me and snort. Once I did it back to her, she'd bust up laughing!

Speaking of laughing, she thinks it's hilarious when we sneeze or cough...but especially funny when mijo coughs. Weirdo!
Because coughing is now funny...she does a great fake cough all day long!

She's started to do stuff on command, like wave bye-bye, high fives, etc. And lately has started doing the point (more like puts her arm out and points her hand (not finger) towards something or someone)
She reaches up to us now to pick her up! :)
She knows the word NO but still pretends to not understand! And really really wants to get into the plants and into stuff on top of tables
She's outgrown the rubber ducky bath tub and is now taking big-girl tubs!