Jeepers!! Summer is here and this month has flown by! I realized I hadn't posted about Callie's 9th month and that I had better hurry because she is 10 months tomorrow! This still counts right? ;)
9th month stats -- 14lbs 4.5oz, 27 inches for length and 43.5cm for head. She is tall and lean. How she has stayed so slim is beyond us, we feed her three meals a day of solids with lots of milk and snacks in between meals. I think my mom has made it her personal challenge to bulk her up by feeding her as often as Callie will let her! She loves to eat all kinds of solid pureed foods, baby mum mum crackers, Gerber stars and cheerios. She tested a little low on iron at her 9 month well-baby checkup so we have been adding more cereal and iron-rich foods into her diet. She is still drinking breast milk (pumped milk during the day and she will nurse late at night and early in the morning).
We noticed just recently Callie has a long torso just like her momma. Her hair is starting to grow in a little more. She had a ton of dark (almost black) hair when she was born, then it kinda fell out and now it is growing back brown. Her eyes are a really beautiful blue-gray color (just like her daddy). Most common remark from our friends and family is how much she looks like Wes.
I feel like I write this every month, but our "Callie girl" loves her brother more than anybody else. She thinks absolutely everything he does is amazing and facinating. She wants to be near him always and is constantly crawling up on his back/shoulders to see what he is up to and cracking up with him when he plays with her. Listening to them laugh together in the backseat of the car is the most wonderful sound. This past weekend it was over 80 degrees so we set up the water table and she and Noah played so good together!
Noah is still learning how to share with his sister. His idea of sharing is to pick out what he wants to share with her and then exclaim, "Mommy, I shared!" like it is some big feat to be celebrated. Too funny! Callie is such a great sport about it though and as long as she has something to play with and is with her big brother she is happy.
This month, Callie showed us she can crawl up an entire flight of stairs without missing a beat. She also pulls herself up on furniture and can sort of walk along holding onto the furniture. I have even caught her standing on her feet, barely touching the wall for support. She continues to amaze us with her motor development progress, which seems way ahead in comparison to brother's. She is such a busy body and loves to be in the middle of all the action. One of her favorite "go-to" spots is under our dining table where she will pull herself up to standing by holding onto the seat of the chairs. She is the perfect height where she doesn't hit her head on the table but she can see all the action going on in the kitchen.
She is babbling like crazy and can say "ma ma ma ma ma" and "da da da da da". We are considering those her first words. :) Sometimes we think we hear a "yeah" or a "yep" in there too.
Callie still has two teeth on the bottom deck and we know her top teeth are just a few weeks out. We can feel them coming in and poor baby girl has been teething for what seems like forever so hopefully they pop out and give her some relief.
As I mentioned earlier, summer is in full swing up here in Alaska which means I am outside enjoying the sunshine and warm weather!! After record breaking snowfall, sitting in front of my computer blogging is a low priority whenever the sun is shining. Until I can figure out a faster way to upload pics, pictures will just have to wait for those rainy and cloudy days. ;)
