9 months old already!!

Addison, you are nine months old!!

I cannot believe what a big girl you are turning into! Here are you nine month stats:

*You weigh 19 lbs 9 oz; 75th percentile

*You are 28 inches long; 75th percentile

*You can crawl around really good and zoom right into areas that Daddy and I have yet to baby-proof. I think you just know places you aren't supposed to be. You are very curious and want to touch everything. You definitely let us know when you want something! Such a stinker!

*You are going to be walking very soon. You can hold onto us and walk very good and you zoom around in your walker.

*You are eating cereal puffs and yogurt melts (along with other soft table food in tiny pieces) like crazy. You grab them up in your hand and then shove them in your mouth. You also drink out of an open cup or through a straw really well. We just need to work on the whole back-wash thing. You like a sippy cup too.

*You have discovered that you can sit up from laying down. And also from sitting, you can pull up to standing. This means that you decided that sleeping was for losers and you certainly didn't want to be a loser so instead of sleeping you would sit up in your crib and clap your hands and talk to your blanket and then stand up on the side of your crib and call for me or Daddy to come get you. You did this night after night leading up to a 3:00am wake-up call where I was lowering your crib mattress so that you didn't tumble right over the edge. Now we can leave you in your crib to calm yourself down to go to sleep (just as Dr. Hunsinger prescribed (after she scolded Mommy about going into your room and rocking you back to sleep every night at 2:00am when you cry for me)).

*You are still a very happy little baby and you Daddy and I are still very very much enamored with you!! We love you so much baby girl! And stop growing up so fast, okay??