Hannah - 9 months old!

This is how we usually find you after your nap or in the morning: standing in your bed looking at all of your binkies on the floor that you drop or throw.

One of your current favorite pastimes, emptying the recycle basket.

This month also brought you two new teeth.

Another favorite activity, emptying the shoe rack.

Back to the basket. Such a busy girl.

And a visit with your Great Aunt Ruthie!

Oh Hannah! You are 9 months old already! Your first year is literally flying by. This month brought more milestones, mainly two new teeth. I was beginning to wonder if you would ever get any! But they suddenly appeared, without any problem or complaint.

You are a super fast crawler and are starting to get into EVERYTHING. Shoes, drawers, the newspaper basket, stray sippy cups, etc. Anything that is picked up and organized, you destroy. With great delight.

You LOVE your brothers almost as much as they love you. You want anything they have and want to play with them all the time.

You are still a super eater. You have gotten really good at feeding yourself solids, with your fingers of course. You eat pretty much anything we eat with a few exceptions. I'd say your favorite foods to feed yourself right now are pancakes, black beans, bananas, cheese, avocado, noodles, carrots and green beans. I'm sure I'm forgetting something. You really do eat everything. It's amazing to see how much your tiny body can hold!

This past week you had your 9-month check and you are still tiny, but healthy:
weight: 16 lbs. 3 oz., 7th percentile
height: 26 1/2 inches long, 14th percentile
head circumference: 17 inches, 24th percentile

And since our meeting with the speech therapist last month, your speech has taken off! About 10 days after starting therapy and new textures, you made your first sounds: Mamama. Oh, be still my heart. The only one of my babies to say mamama first! Then came dadada, bababa and all sorts of other noises. And last week, I swear you said all done. It sounded more like "ah duh." But it was right after I said all done. Of course you wouldn't say it again, but you did say it a couple days later for daddy. Are you going to be speaking in full sentences and walking next month?!

You continue to be a very sweet and happy baby. You go with the flow, most of the time and have yet to develop stranger danger. You are such a blessing and delight. However, you are still trying to grow up too fast. Please don't start walking yet. And yes, we've seen you practicing letting go of the coffee table, but we are ignoring your efforts!