photo blog: our baby is 9 months!!

Thursday, February 2, 2012

our baby is 9 months!!

9 months (2-2-12)

Miss Mia (Mia Bear, Sisser, Sissy, Meeter Meez) is 9 months old today! There have been a TON of changes in just one month:
1. Crawling (38ish weeks) EVERYWHERE! She found the stairs this week...YIPPIE ;)
2. 1 more tooth (canine)-pretty sure a few more top ones are about to cut through.
3. Preferring finger foods (loves avacado) Just introduced egg yolk at 9 months (today)-wish we would have done this as her first solid but had forgotten about it.
4. Babbling (some even sound like words (all done, Na Na (Nataleigh), Mom, Dadda, Ni Ni (night, night)
5. Kicking her feet when she gets excited
6. Shaking her head "yes"
7. Shaking her whole body to music (her version of dancing)
8. Interacting with us more, LOVING her Big Sissy
9. Really interested in books
10. Making lots of associations
11. Clapping
12. She's getting more hair!!

I think the hardest time I've had with her was the middle and last part of 8 months. I was pretty certain she was going to wean all but her last feeding. (she's nursing 4x a day). Thankfully it was a phase and I pumped to make sure my supply stayed maintained. I'd offer her breastmilk in the bottle after her lousy nursing sessions. I suspected it was a couple things-developmental leap and teething. After the leap was over and a tooth cut through she was back to her nursing champ self! I prayed like crazy during this time and tried my best to remain calm and patient-very hard of course! My goal is to nurse her at least until 12 months as this is her main source of nutrition until then. I nursed Nataleigh until 18 months (I was 4 months pregnant with Mia) and stopped only because I needed a break before Mia came. ;)
Here's to taking in every moment because it flies by so fast!

My favorite story so far of Mia happened last weekend at church:
She's putting EVERYTHING in her mouth. When I went to get her in the nursery to nurse I picked her up and she started choking/gagging and acting like she had to throw up. I thought, oh great, she's sick! :( After gagging some more a princess sticker comes to the front of her mouth. Yep-she had gotten a hold of a sticker and was choking on it :( Thankfully we caught it when we did! AHHH-Mia! ;)

This is what happens when mommy steps away for a second...peas EVERYWHERE!

If you're looking for a good place to take an infant and toddler in the middle of the winter the shoe store is great! Plenty of mirrors for the infant and plenty of shoes for the toddler with a shoe fetish! :)