9 Months

So I know that we are 11 days past 9 months, but I am going to try to report as accurately as I can on Aurora at 9 months (hey - I need this for when I finally do her baby book...)

So at Aurora's 9 month check-up everything went well. Developmentally she is right where she should be. No concerns - she looks healthy. She weighs 19lbs (down to 52%) and is 28.6" long (78%). She still has a little bitty head - she's in the 21 percentile. I just hope that her future siblings follow in her footsteps in that regard :)

Aurora is full blown crawling. I consider 10/21 to be the date that officially started and ever since she is on the move. She is also pulling herself up on EVERYTHING. The week after we got back from vacation it started - I went in her room one morning and she was standing up in her crib! Needless to say the mattress is now at the lowest level to prevent her from falling out. She has also started to really like walking while holding on to someones hands. She can stand on her own for about 30 seconds and likes to do that a lot. And she has started cruising - not quickly or gracefully, but she's working on it.

Almost exactly on her 9 month birthday another tooth popped through. So she has her 2 middle bottom teeth now. (She got the left one first, the right one now) She is really starting to like table food and feeding her any mushy solids has become quite a challenge. She likes to spit them back out at me and she makes a total mess.

One of Aurora's favorite pastimes is standing at her bookshelf and pulling each book off the shelf and dropping it. She also loves opening and closing drawers and cabinets and pulling out whatever is in them and dropping them on the floor. Basically she really enjoys making a mess right now.

She loves snuggling right now. She snuggles every stuffed animal she has and she even tries to snuggle herself in the mirror - so adorable. Her favorite toys right now are her stuffed animals. Mr. Pickle (her green monkey) is her nighttime buddy still and the rest she plays with during the day. She has recently fallen in love with Elmo and goes nuts every time she sees him. She really goes nuts anytime she sees any stuffed animals which has made shopping pretty difficult recently. She is all about the Christmas decorations.

Another random thing - she clicks her tongue all the time. I love it. I don't totally know what it means - I think she usually does it when she sees something new that she's interested in...

Aurora is not sleeping well. That really is nothing new, but it seems to have gotten worse. She is an awful napper and will sometimes fight sleep for hours during the day. She's tired and miserable and will fall asleep in my arms, but the second I put her in the crib she's awake and wants to get up. But at night she has no problem going to sleep - it's staying asleep. On a good night she will wake up 4-5 times. On a bad night she wakes up every hour. She doesn't want to eat - she just wants us in there. And once she sees us she will go back to sleep usually. It's not even a pacifier thing - she just seems to want to know that we are there. One thing that has made the sleeping worse is that now that she can sit and stand up in her crib she will prop herself up and then just scream - she can't figure out how to lay back down. Not fun...

Aurora had a fun Halloween. She actually got sick just before so she missed out on some fun stuff :( but we still got to go over to Grandma and Grandpa's and watch the trick or treaters. She really liked some of the costumes and she tolerated hers pretty well :) And yes - she had more than one costume :)