9 months!!

Here she is... we've reached nine months. She weighs in at 17lbs even (20%) and is 27 inches (25%). Life is great, we are all having so much fun as Laurel develops more personality, becomes more interactive and more than just an observer of our family activities.

Lots of changes once again.

- We have introduced finger foods and she is loving them. In fact, she loves them so much that she has started to reject most baby food. She still eats most everything and I am having a great time coming up with new things for her to try.

- She is pulling up all the time. She is a bit wobbly, so there have been a lot of tumbles, but it is all part of the learning process.

- I was fairly convinced that she was going to army crawl until she was walking, until tonight when she crawled on hands and knees in the bathtub. We will see what happens!

- She already has quite the independent streak. Her teacher at daycare was struggling to get her to drink her bottle, Laurel just kept pushing it away. They finally tried sitting her down and just handing it to her, she immediately grabbed it and drank the whole thing. She just wanted to do it herself. She gets very frustrated when she can't figure out how to do something. She tries and tries and lets out quite the frustrated cry.

- She has learned to wave and is working on clapping.