9 Months! September 20

Happy 9 Months Baby Girl! You have had such a fantastic month - constantly growing, learning, and still impressing everyone!

You are spending a lot of time each day sitting and playing at your "desk". You've started working with blocks and learning how to stack things. Your reach is getting better and better, as is your grasp. We tried working on holding crayons, and got these great crayons thinking that they would be ok if you stuck the end in your mouth...but you ended up turning it around and sticking the crayon end in your mouth so we're holding off a little on that! They're a little bit of a softer crayon so you ended up with a lot of blue in your mouth.

You are still doing SO well with eating foods - the amount that you're eating is increasing and you are handling the foods much better in your mouth. You still have a little bit of work to do with your tongue movements but there's already been a lot of improvement since our visit to the clinic a few weeks ago. We did learn that you're not too crazy about pickles. Either that or you just really weren't sure what to think about something so different than what you've been eating! (And thank you Little Big for that nice ending...)

This week has been an up and down week. You had a low grade fever all last weekend, and we thought it was just some teeth coming in....but they haven't shown up yet. You were really fussy Monday and Tuesday and just wanted to be held and cuddled (which I was perfectly happy to do!) but started developing a cough Monday night. We did a few breathing treatments over the week but it didn't seem to help any so we actually spent your 9 month birthday at the doctors office. You were almost back to yourself Thursday and Friday and spent a lot of time playing with your new toys - you mastered getting the rings off of this toy in about 15 minutes!

Anyway, it turns out your have a slight ear infection so you're back on antibiotics; and they renewed your albuterol prescription so we can add that to your breathing treatments as needed. Also, happy day, Mama got a flu shot while we were there. Joy. Not quite how we planned to spend our day, but we survived it.

You are growing up so fast I don't even know what to do! There are days when I feel like things are going so fast that you'll be off to school with your sisters tomorrow and then we have weeks like this week where you just want to be held and rocked that remind me that you're still my Baby Girl. I love you so much and am so proud of you and how hard you're working! Keep fighting and keep growing!

Oh you know, just hanging out in the chair