9 months

Yesterday Hallie had her 9 month check up. Can I say again how much I love having her drs office within walking distance from our house? So convenient! You know those days where it feels like everything bad that could happen actually does? Well yesterdays drs appointment wasn't far from that. In the past she's always gotten weighed before we go in the room, with clothes on. Yesterday they had me go in the room, strip her down to nothing, then go out in the hall. Well the scale wasnt working. So here I was holding a nakey baby when I start feeling little drips run down my arm. Yep, peed a little. When we got back to the room Hallie got her foot pricked to test her iron. She didn't even flinch, probably because she had her foot pricked several times a day for the first week of her life from jaundice. But, she DID cry when they put the bandaid on her and she couldn't figure out how to take it off. The nurse left and while we waited for the Dr Hallie was trying everything to get that dang bandaid off. She was so frustrated. In the process she was getting blood all over the table sheet. Guess thats what they're for eh? So then the Dr comes in and does his thing, and I notice the table sheet getting wet. Go figure, Hallie had a MAJOR blowout. It was everywhere. They had to scrub down the table and ya it was a mess. So then I get her changed and were walking back home and I notice her little cheeks are puffed up like a chipmunk and her lips are sealed. She looked so guilty. Apparently she had finally gotten her bandaid off her toe, and it was quite the struggle getting that bloody bandaid out of her mouth. Oh child of mine...

Hallie

9 months

19 lbs 2 oz

29 3/4 in.

I cant believe my little bug is getting so big. Even in the last month, she is not the same baby. Month 8 flew by soo fast. I can only imagine what time will be like from now on.

New skills:

-she's scaling across the furniture, sometimes getting brave and letting go to reach for somewhere else

-she's figuring out that the ground isn't miles away when she stands up, so she can now sit back down

-she loves standing up in the tub and pulling all the soaps in one by one and then sitting back down

-she crawls around whispering or hissing

-still no mama or dada

-when i tell her no, she turns into slow motion and does it anyway

-she LOVES playing with her puppies

-she refuses to lay down with a bottle now

-the last few weeks she's had to be rocked to sleep. we havent had to do that since she was a couple months old. Im really trying to be good at just living in the moment and not thinking about all the things I could be doing. I need to savor these moments

She is blossoming into such this fun independent spirit. I love watching her learn new things and be a little adventurer! Dr. told me next time we'll see him will be her one year check up, it's going to be here before we know it :(

This is kind of a side note, but I have to share this. To those who already do this, kudos. You should have shared this tip with me long ago. If you don't do this...DO! I found this tip in blogland somewhere, I don't remember where, but it has made my life so much easier. I always saved my laundry for Saturday either weekly or bi-weekly and it was so overwhelming having so many loads to wash/dry and then folding this mountainous pile. This blogger says do one load of laundry, start to finish, every day. So every morning this week I have put a load in, dried it, folded it and put it away. Now it's Saturday and almost all of my laundry is done. I get to spend it with my Hallie, as soon as she wakes up!