9 months

Where does the time go?! These posts always seem to come up too quickly...
Hailey is now 9 months old. I can't believe it. We go to the doctor for her 9 month check up next week but until then, she weighs about 20 pounds (according to the Epley scale). She wears 9 month clothes, sometimes 12 month pants and size 3 diapers. Hailey now has 4 teeth and it looks like 2 more are coming in on the top.

Can you see all those teeth?

This past month we've had a rough time with sleep, but we're hoping she's getting back on track. She's been either waking up at 5:00 or waking up several times during the night. We've assumed it's because of teething, but I can't wait to get back to her normal sleeping schedule. She still takes a nap every 2 hours, but lately I've been able to get an hour to hour and a half nap a few times a week! Those naps are wonderful, and she wakes up like this:

These are our "we love long nap" faces!

She is eating three solid meals a day and nursing about 5 times a day. She loves yogurt and still doesn't like peas. Her favorite snack is definitely Cheerios, but she also likes puffs and yogurt melts. I've tried to give her a few finger foods like cut up sweet potatoes, diced veggies and bread / crackers / pancakes. She didn't like the diced sweet potatoes, even though she loves them pureed and didn't chew the diced veggies too well yet. Hailey is great with her sippy cup and will take a bottle for her Daddy, but not anyone else so far.

Daddy makes yummy pancakes

Hailey said her first words this month! She said "Mama" first, then "Bobo" (Beau is Mimi and Poppi's dog) and then "Dada". Ryan wasn't too thrilled that he came after the dog. Ha! She babbles all the time and tries to mimic sounds we make too. Sometimes after we cheer for her it sounds like she says "yay" too. She's also mimicked "bye bye" a few times, and we've heard "nay nay nay" which we're assuming is "no no".

This is her pouty face

Hailey is a quick little crawler and is now cruising the furniture. She hasn't taken any steps alone, but stands up without support a lot.

Hailey still LOVES books and has even started to bring us some to read to her. Right now she loves the books that only have one word on a page, like the ones that tell colors or name toys. She also loves "Itsy, Bitsy Spider", of which we have several copies and she giggles every time we read any of them.

For some reason she is fascinated with the vacuum and broom. Anytime I get either of them out. she wants to play with them. Weird, right?

She also loves to play in the refrigerator. Whenever she hears us open it, she does the fast crawl to catch the door open. Stinker.

She loves dogs and will smile and laugh any time she sees one. Hence the reason she said "Bobo" before "Dada"! She is definitely not scared of them.

She's taken a liking to this stuffed dog that Ryan's Uncle Butch gave her

 So much has happened in the last month, I can't imagine what's coming next!