9 Months

Wow. I can't believe my tiny little baby is 9 months old!! she is getting so big so fast and thinks that she is older than she is. We had a great doctors visit. She now weighs 16 lbs 6 oz (10th percentile) and is 27 3/4 in long (58th percentile). Tall and skinny! She is doing so great developmentally and was charming the doctor with her sweet smile!

She is such a funny little girl. She makes the cutest faces and noises. I love when she scrunches her face. Addie has also learned how to wave. As soon as she sees someone new, she waves at them. Or if we tell her to say hi or bye, she waves. It's so cute!
One of her new favorite things is mirrors. She loves to look in them and see herself. She just stares and laughs at herself in the mirror. She also looks at my reflection in the mirror and then looks at me. Then she looks back at my reflection. It's so cute!

She has also found the doorstoppers this past month. In any room that she is in she finds them and hits them so they make sound. The sound is pretty annoying but watching her completely enthralled is so worth it.
We have spent a lot of time outside playing. Addie is really starting to love being outdoors and playing in our playground. She tries to be a big kid and crawl/walk in the bark. She just thinks she is so much bigger than she is! She also is becoming a daddy's girl. If Shawn is home, she wants to be with him. She will lean out of my arms for him. I love it but it also makes me a little sad and jealous.

Addie absolutely LOVES picking the grass and running her hands through it but she absolutely HATES her feet or legs touching the grass. Hence her sitting on the edge of the blanket with her leg in the air! So funny to watch.

Food. The kid can't get enough food. And she is starting to not let me feed her anything, not even yogurt or applesauce. She wants to feed herself. But she is a fantastic eater so I can't complain. She loves sourdough cheese toast. She loves mandarin chicken. She loves spaghetti. She loves ice cream. She loves fruit (she did not get that from me!). She loves EVERYTHING!!!
Addie's bottom two teeth came through this past month as is evident by the above picture! She has destroyed the inside of her crib with her teeth. I must admit its super cute (the crib, not the teething process). She has been a fairly good teether. Her first tooth just appeared overnight and so it was super easy. Her second tooth was a bit more difficult and she was pretty clingy for a few days. Her napping was all over the place but her night sleep wasn't affected at all. I was so grateful for that!! She also got a big red blister where the tooth was coming in. Here's to hoping the rest of her teething goes as smoothly as her first tooth!!
Oh and last but not least, Addie is walking!!! It's absolutely insane. She started standing up in the middle of the floor just before she was 6 months and i think that has helped out with her balance. She then started crawling around 7 months and picked that up quickly. Then just before she turned 9 months she decided that she wanted to walk! It was kind of crazy to be playing with her and have her take two steps towards me. She wasn't even cruising around the furniture yet! So now each day she gets better and better at walking. She is now up to about 7-8 steps at a time. I'm just not ready for my baby to be a toddler!!!

Oh and a random sidenote: We got a new couch. Shawn went to the RC Willey Outlet with a coworker to buy a TV for his friends new place. Instead his coworker left empty handed and Shawn left with a couch. We got it for $215. The guy at the store wanted $340 but my little negotiator got him down $125 bucks!!! We just added it to our original couch and now you can't tell that they are separate pieces. I love it!!