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!

You win some, you lose some

Or in our case: You get some....


You lose one...
Teeth that is.

Hannah got two teeth this month, with no warning. Such a good baby. None of the normal teething symptoms. The teeth just appeared. What are the chances they will all arrive that way? A mother can hope!

And Andrew lost his first tooth a couple weeks ago. (Yes, I'm behind once again.) Anyway, on Saturday afternoon he told us his tooth was lose and by Sunday afternoon it was about to fall out. Keith helped it a little and that was it. No drama, no crying, no freaking out. Just excitement about the tooth fairy!

But now there is a little confusion about the Tooth Fairy. Last week he asked if we could sit down and have a conversation about the Tooth Fairy. I asked, "Do we have to?" I knew there would be questions that I wasn't willing to answer. He asked if the Tooth Fairy was here all the time. And I explained the Tooth Fairy only came when he lost a tooth.
"Well, how does the Tooth Fairy know when to come to our house?"
"The Tooth Fairy just knows these things."
I tried to explain that the Tooth Fairy is like the Easter Bunny and that we can't see them.
"But I need to talk to the Tooth Fairy." (I can only imagine that conversation.)
So, I distracted him with going outside and that was the end of our conversation. For now. I'm sure it will resume after our next lost tooth!

By the way, the Tooth Fairy brought him 4 quarters and he was super excited. And a little confused. He was ready to go buy a new toy that day. Umm, sorry bud. $1 won't buy you much. Maybe the Tooth Fairy can increase it's budget for your next tooth.

Teeth!

This weekend Jonathan cut his bottom two teeth, and he seems to have a very high pain tolerance! Amazingly, he didn't have any of the normal teething symptoms - fever, runny nose, diarhea. He was only slightly fussy, but that is nothing compared to what it could've been! Now, if we can just have all of his teeth come in so easily! I tried to get a picture of the little nubbins, but they are shy.