Warning: this is long and probably boring (unless you are a grandparent), but I haven't been good about writing in her baby book so I want to have a record of this information. Feel free to skip the update and scroll to the bottom for a new video.
At her 9 month check up a few weeks ago Molly was:
20 pounds, 14 ounces (83%)
28 inches long (67%)
She started crawling on April 17 (6 days before she turned 9 months) and we quickly learned how un-childproof our house is. She is really fast and loves to be on the go. She pulls herself up and will walk around furniture, but hasn't yet taken any steps on her own. It is fun to watch her get around, but requires much more supervision. And she hates her exersaucer now because she wants to be moving!
Eating has been going much better lately. We struggled from 4-8 months trying to get her to eat baby food and she was just never really interested. Now she gets "real" food and is much more interested in eating. Her absolute favorite food is cottage cheese and we can get her to try anything as long as there is a little cottage cheese on the spoon. Other favorites include yogurt, sweet potatoes, avocado, bananas, chickpeas, and black beans. Dislikes include most fruits (except bananas and cantaloupe which gave her diaper rash). She has 8 teeth (4 on top, 4 on the bottom) that help her to chew all that food. The bottom ones didn't really bother her, but all 4 of the top ones came in the same week and that was pretty rough (on all 3 of us!).
Her eating schedule:
6 ounces of formula when she wakes up
Breakfast around 8:30
5 ounce bottle at 10:30
Lunch at 12:00
5 ounce bottle at 2:30
Dinner at 5:30
6 ounce bottle before bed
Molly is a good sleeper. She usually goes to bed between 7:30 and 8:00 and wakes up between 6:00 and 7:00. She hardly ever wakes up in the night and when she does she can usually be soothed back to sleep pretty easily. Her naps are pretty inconsistent, especially during the week at daycare. She usually only sleeps for about 20-30 minutes in the morning and about 45 minutes in the afternoon (at different times everyday). On the weekends she usually naps quite a bit longer. This has been the case ever since she got the tubes in her ears. I think she hears a lot better now and therefore has a harder time sleeping at daycare.
She is still completely infatuated by Harvey. We are really working on being gentle with her because she gets excited and will pop him pretty hard. He snaps in her direction, but has never bitten her. The problem is that his snapping doesn't scare her, it makes her laugh so she gets even more excited. He is equally infatuated with her, especially now that she frequently drops bits of food on the floor (we have learned that he also loves cottage cheese), although he enjoys her more from a distance.
Favorite activities include going for walks in her stroller, playing at her activity table, baths, going on any outing where people smile at her, looking at picture (especially ones of her Aunt Annie) and sticking her fingers in the various orifices of her Mommy and Daddy's faces.
She continues to get cuter by the minute and we feel so lucky to be her parents. I'll close with a video of her working on her newest trick: waving (please don't mind the messy kitchen counter behind her - we are working on our audition tape for Hoarders :-) She hasn't completely gotten the hang of it, but is trying.
2 comments:
i love the two handed almost wave. in my day, we called those JAZZ HANDS.
also, you'll never have what it takes to make it on horders. i've seen your living spaces, even in our dirtiest of college days. you are much too tidy. (although i seem to remember your husband living in some sort of cave???)
kisses to the cutie pie.
She's a doll!
Post a Comment