9 months!

9 month stats:

17 lbs 2.5 oz (25 percentile)

28 in long (75 percentile)

16.5 in head circ (50 percentile)

This has been, by far, the most fun and busiest month of Makenna's life thus far. She is everywhere and into EVERY thing! How does a baby know exactly what she isn't supposed to have? Why is that exactly what she always wants? And how does she know how to throw the biggest fit ever just to get what she wants? Seriously, this girl has us trained already. All she needs to do is throw that sweet little head back and wail (with giant crocodile tears) and sure enough, she gets our cell phone, the remote control, the piece of paper, or the bottle of water that she wants.

She is now a standing machine. She will crawl right over to the couch and pull herself straight up. She gets a little help by using her mouth to grab onto the side of the couch :) We call her mouth her third hand. She uses it for everything.

She can also cruise along the side of the couch. She will move back and forth between the couch and foot-stool too. The only problem she has with standing now is that she can't get back down to the floor very gracefully. She either crashes and bonks her head on the way or she just stands and starts crying until we rescue her and put her back into a seated position.

The girl eats everything. We found out today that she loves fresh blueberries. She was having a lot of fun picking them up and squishing them between her fingers before shoving them into her mouth by the handfuls. Her nose has started turning orange from too many orange veggies. Here come the green beans, peas, and zucchini.

I wake up every morning (and usually at least once a night) to Makenna standing in her crib, banging on the side rails. If she isn't sleeping, she is on the move! There aren't a lot of times when she wants to be held or rock or carried anymore. She is becoming so independent. Well until she falls and gets hurt, then she wants mommy loves. :)

Here are a few pictures of her on the move:

Fair Time!

8 months!

What a busy little girl we have these days. She is now full on crawling anywhere and everywhere she wants to go. If she wants to go fast, she still resorts to the army crawl though.

In the last few days, Makenna has started pulling up to standing. The first time she did, I was sitting on the floor with her and holding a toy that she wanted. She kept climbing higher and higher to reach it until she had climbed up to standing. The next few time, she just crawled right over to our couch and pulled herself right up! She has also tried standing in her crib, which has lead to tears each time as she falls over and bonks her head on the slats :(

She has an amazing pincher grasp. She gets about 9 out of 10 puffs in her mouth. (Livy waits closely by for that one to drop!) She also uses her pointer finger to "test touch" everything. I am collecting pictures of her doing this. She touches anything that even resemble an eyeball, she loves reaching out to quickly touch her doggy and then pulls her hand back in full giggles, and she has even reached up to stick that finger in the outlet (time to start baby proofing!).

She uses her feet just as much as she uses her hands. She lays on her back and will hold one toy in her hands and then another toy in her feet. Future soccer player?!

She still has just that one tooth, but it is really coming in. She looks so cute cheesing with her snaggle tooth poking out!

She is also eating a ton of finger foods. She still gets purees for breakfast and lunch but at dinner time, she gets little bites of almost all of our food. She loves eating and gets mad if we don't share with her!

Makenna has so much personality and she is definitely a drama queen. She can turn on the tears like that and just as quickly turn them off when she get what she wants! Oh no...she is already training us!

The TOOTH!

So I thought there were two, but now I can only see one...

Anyway, it is just barely through the gum, but here it is...can you see it?!

Nothing sweeter...

than hearing my baby girl over the monitor saying "mama, dada, mama, dada" and when I look at the monitor screen, I see her pulling down the bumper, peering out the crib slats, waiting for one of us to come get her from her nap.

She has been doing this every.single.time she wakes up. I love it!

Teeth!

At 7 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days...Makenna has finally gotten her first teeth.

When I was feeding her breakfast this morning, I thought I saw a little bit of white on her gums. I stuck my finger in her mouth and sure enough there was a tooth poking through (bottom left). At about 5 o'clock I felt again, and then there were TWO teeth poking out (and bottom right).

It was a bittersweet feeling. While I have been waiting and expecting teeth for months now, it seems like my little baby is no longer that teeny, tiny baby she once was. She now is eating 3 solid meals per day along with a few Puffs or Mum-mums as snacks. I miss saying that I was the only one sustaining her life through nursing. She doesn't even want me to hold her all of time anymore, she pushes me away in order to get back down on the floor to army crawl to the dog or her toys. I used to need to rock or nurse her to sleep, but now she just wants to be put down in the crib so she can fall asleep on her own. She is getting to be so independent! I remember wishing for this day to come, now I just want time to stop and go backwards. My little girl is growing up too fast.

7 months!

Wow, I haven't updated the blog in a long time! Now that I'm starting back to work again :tear:, I figure I better get the most up to date pictures on here (I sit and look at the blog while I'm pumping!). I miss my baby girl so much when I'm at work, but I know she loves going to daycare. That makes it so much easier for me to drop her off each morning.

Here are her 7 month pictures:

Uh Oh! She found the paper! She loves crumpling paper!

mmmm....Puffs!Sharing Puffs with mommy! She always wants to share anything/everything she has. She is too sweet! She also started eating Mum-Mums (rice crackers) and a few yogurt melts here and there. She loves eating her solid foods. I have been making quite a few of her foods also. Even prunes! (She has needed those after starting solids 3x per day...darn rabbit pellet poopies!)Look at those sweet eyes...

Crawling! She has started getting up on her hands and knees, and rocking back and forth. She tries to move forward, but usually face-plants OR goes backwards. She has however MASTERED the army crawl and is getting places pretty quick with it!
It took her about 15 minutes, but she went all the way from the middle of our living room, down the hall, to the bathroom where I was blow-drying my hair! She was so proud of herself!
She does this super cute belly flop/wiggle when she wants to go somewhere but can't get there fast enough. I have been trying to catch in on video but haven't been able to get it just yet. I'll update the blog with a video once I get it because it is the funniest thing to watch :)