Pumpkin Patch!

I am so excited about these pictures!!! I can't thank Ashley enough for going with us to the pumpkin patch to capture these truly adorable photos.

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!