Eliana you are 9 months old!!!
-You are wearing mostly 9-month clothes, but you can still also
wear 6-12 months. Some of
your 6-month onesies still fit as well. They’re
actually a little snug, but they are some of my
favorite onesies that you have,
so I can’t admit that you may have outgrown them.
-You are still wearing a size 3 diaper.
- You weighed 19 lbs at your doctor’s appointment on 12/12/12. I really thought
you were
going to weigh more than that. My guess was between 19.5 – 20 lbs.
- You are 27.5 inches long.
-We’re still working on the sippy cup. We bought you a cup with a straw hoping
that maybe
you would like that better. Unfortunately, you treat it just like
your sippy cups…you just
gnaw on it.
- You’ve tried several new foods. I’m sure there are many more,
but all I can remember
right now are pumpkin and turkey. You had both of those
for the first time on
Thanksgiving.
- We’ve also given you a few baby snacks. You love getting to
eat like a big girl, and you
especially love it when you get to hold your food
yourself.
-You love books! We had to get you some cloth books because you like to chew on your
board books.
- You are pulling up! That’s all that you want to do now. You
started doing that on 11/19/12.
- You still give kisses, and it is still my favorite thing, but
they’re harder to get these days.
You’re much too busy to just give out kisses
all day.
-You are still sleeping through the night! There were a few
nights that we actually had to
Ferber you in the middle of the night, though.
That wasn’t fun. Ferbering is hard enough at
bedtime…it’s much harder at 3 AM.
5 minutes seems like eternity when you had just been
in a very deep sleep.
- Theoretically, we’re going to work on naptime while Daddy is
off for Christmas break.
Yes…I am that much of a wimp, and I need his help.
- You are still an attention hog…maybe even more so.
- You have 2 teeth now!!! I felt a tooth with my finger on
11/9/12, and I could see it on
11/10/12.
I don’t know the exact date, but I think that it was less than a week
later when
the other tooth popped through. (I don't have a good picture of the teeth, yet).
- You have discovered that the problem with having teeth is that
you can now bite your own
fingers. This has happened several times, and you are
not very happy about it.
- We are still working on getting you to play by yourself
without being held, but we’re
getting there. Some days are better than others.
-You still love to be held, but you start to get antsy and have
to move.
- You have started throwing temper tantrums. It makes me nervous
because I’m afraid
you’re going to be mean when you get bigger, and no one will
want to be around you. Dr.
Adams told us that it’s totally normal at this age,
and that made me feel a little better.
These typically occur when we change
your diaper, when we take something away from you,
when I try to let you play
by yourself, or when you’re really tired. This has definitely been
the most
challenging month of parenting, yet.
- I think your tear duct is better! Yay! One day I noticed that
I hadn’t wiped your eye in
about a week, and it has been better ever since.
- You are still pulling my hair. However, now you also grab my
eyelids, nose, eyebrows, and
ears when you’re nursing.
-One day we were in the car and the sun was in your eyes. You tried to hold up a small toy
to block the sun. That didn't work, so the next thing we knew you were holding up your
blanket to hide your eyes from the sun. It was really cute and funny!
- I realized one day that you had never been around stairs, so
on 12/4/12 I let you try to
climb up the stairs that go to our basement. You
climbed right up them without any
problem.
- You say, “dada” all of the time! I cannot get you to say
“mama.” Sometimes you’ll say it
when you’re angry. If I ask you to say “mama,”
you usually look at me, grin, and say, “dada.”
It’s like you know you’re
teasing me.
- You’ve been a little grumpy lately, and I’m not sure what that
is about. I’m hoping it’s just
teething.
-You were an "Ellie-phant" for our costume party.
- I don’t remember
when you started doing it (early November maybe), but your wave is
quite
possibly the sweetest thing ever.