Katie: 9 Months

We are three quarters of the way to one year, can time slow down a bit please? This month was extra fun watching Katie learn and grow!

This month we finally had our first tooth pop through- her bottom left front tooth!

We enjoyed lots of sink baths this month, and they are definitely a favorite for her. This girl loves a bath and will play in there long after you are done washing her. It's been a great way to keep her occupied while Eric and I deal with the twins. 

Katie celebrated her first Valentine's day this month. She is absolutely our little sweat heart. 

Thanks to the warmer weather we've had this month, Katie has also spent quite a bit of time outside. She really seems to enjoy being out in the sunshine. She's mostly been in the carrier so we can go wherever Brayden and Ashley want to go, but I am looking forward to when it warms up (and dries out) a little bit more and I can lay a blanket down in the grass for her. 

When I was home with them on President's day, Katie got to enjoy some time in the swing. Brayden and Ashley really enjoyed getting a chance to push her, and Katie seemed to like it too. 

President's day weekend was also a big one for Katie but she started to army crawl! It is still very rudimentary, but she is definitely scooting around. You could tell for the past few weeks that she has really wanted to move, but she just hadn't put all the pieces together yet. It won't be long before she's hands and knees crawling, and then walking!

She is a master at spinning around in a circle on her butt to face the direction that she wants or reach a favorite toy. I've seen her go from her belly to laying on the floor, but it isn't super graceful and sometimes one foot gets stuck under her belly from the transition. She still enjoys standing up, but only really does it if you are holding her hands or under her armpits. If you put her next to something to have her hold on on her own, she isn't super confident in her skills and will usually go straight to her bottom. 

Katie is using so many more consonant sounds in her talking this month. I even finally heard her say "mama" on my birthday! Amanda said she had been saying it at daycare for a few days but she never busted it out for me at home. Now she has absolutely no clue what "mama" means yet, so it's not a true word yet, but I'm working on making it one :) Other consonant sounds include /b/ (which is probably her favorite), /d/, /g/, /y/. 

Her play has really developed this past month. I feel like she is playing with things more intentionally. She definitely has her favorite toys- which have been the ring stacker and the hungry caterpillar fabric book, or whatever thing you have in your hands. She even did some back and forth play with me the other day when she would reach her book out for me to "eat" and then she would bring it back to herself and pretend to eat it. She did that about 3 or 4 times. I'm so excited to see her finally really play with Brayden and Ashley. 

Katie's favorite things this month include blowing raspberries, Brayden and Ashley, touchy feely books, and her momma. 

She has serious FOMO and wants to be where all the action is. 

Katie wore six month clothes all this past month, but I actually changed her into nine month clothes just today. She is in size 3 diapers now. 

Her schedule has her eating four to five 6 ounce bottles a day. She gets through an extra bottle during the week at daycare that we can never fit in at home on the weekends. I think she sleeps longer naps at home so she has one less wake window than she does at daycare. 

Katie is up for 2-3 hours between naps, and eats every 3-5 hours, depending on how long she naps. 

She is measuring about 26.5 inches long and weighing 18 pounds. At her doctor's appointment on February 28th, she weighed 16.94 pounds and measured 27 inches long.

And we even snuck in her sitter session in my studio this month.

Just three more months until the big O-N-E, we can't wait to see what all happens with our silly girl until then!