Kaylee - 9 Months

I know I missed posting Kaylee's 8 month pictures, but I am having some technical difficulties with them at the moment.  So we are going to fast forward to the present time--9 month old Kaylee!

Being the wonderful mother that I am, I completely forgot to write down her stats from her well baby visit.  However, I do remember that they were all good!  She is back on track with her weight and is growing like a weed.  I think she is close the 70th percentile for height, close to that for her head, and around the 50th for her weight...but don't quote me on that.  All I know for sure is that she is healthy, and tall!  

She is a little jabber mouth and makes quite a few different sounds. Dadada, mamama, gagaga, bababa being her favorites (I remember Nathan not making many different consonant sounds until he was quite a bit older.)  Of course her favorite, and mine, is her growl.  She has also taken to gurgling quite a bit and she just cracks herself up every time she does it.

She is crawling all over the place, and just the other day I found her standing up in bed when I got her up in the morning.  She is much more timid than her brother though.  If she climbs onto something (for example a pillow) she screams her little head off because she can't get down.  She has also not ventured to try climbing onto anything much higher than a pillow :)

She is absolutely terrified of loud sounds.  No blow dryers, vacuums, or electric can openers for this little girl. The other day I was ordering a smoothie at the gym and Kaylee threw the biggest fit when the lady turned on the blender, I had to walk into another room until she was done.  That's my girl I guess, a big scaredy cat like her mom!

She is starting to favor women over men.  Most of the time she is completely content to have a female stranger hold her, but she will cry her head off if a male holds her (except for her daddy of course, whom she is VERY fond of).

Now that Kaylee can crawl she follows Nathan around everywhere and wants to play with what he is playing with.  This can be cute but also quite frustrating for Nathan who is constantly having to defend his newly made train track, or the stack of blocks that he piled high.  Sharing is not one of Nathan's favorite things, but Kaylee seems completely oblivious to that fact as she takes Nathan's toys right out of his hands again and again. 

She has her two bottom teeth, which came in right around Halloween (I think she was hoping I would give her some candy, so she sprouted them just in time...no dice baby girl.)

She is a bouncy little thing.  When she gets excited she bounces around like crazy.  I really have to hold onto her tight when Curtis walks into the room because she usually starts bouncing up and down while reaching for him.  She also loves to play in the jumper that our friend let us borrow.  She really goes to town in that thing.  Curtis and I have tried to take videos of this on several occassions but of course once the camera is on she stops.  Kids.

She is still a great sleeper, sleeping from 7pm - 7am, with two 2-hour naps during the day.

She is such a happy girl.  She smiles and laughs constantly.  Of course, when she cries...she REALLY cries.

And of course, as always, she is still the most beautiful little girl you have ever seen!