Clara turned 9 months old on the 22nd. Her measurements were:
height - 29 inches (90th percentile)
weight - 19 lbs. 13 oz. (60th percentile)
head - 17.5 inches (75th percentile)
Developmentally, this was quite the month for Miss Clara. She is crawling FAST and pulling herself up to standing with ease. She can stand on her own for brief moments, but mostly stands holding on with one hand to something. She knows what these words mean: more, all done (and she can sign this one), kisses (and does this on command), and no. She probably knows more, these are just the first I can think of.
She loves to feed herself. She is getting a little tired of baby food. She prefers something she can hold onto and put in her mouth on her own. She's becoming quite independent! She hated avocado for a while, but I've been cutting it into small chunks lately and she's back to loving it. She loves the cold weather because of all the soups she's been able to eat! I've been on a major soup kick lately. She loved the Thanksgiving food - especially TURKEY! Sometimes, she just hates eating from my spoon so much that she needs to hold her own spoon while you hold her spoon and feed her. Sometimes during meals she can be quite a handful!
She can do a few great tricks. She can click her tongue, and she can clap her hands, and as I mentioned before, she can kiss like crazy on command!
She has such a personality. When she doesn't want something, she either shakes her head "no" emphatically, or she scrunches up her face and breathes really quickly through her "teeth". Speaking of teeth, she's a vampire at 9 months! She has her front two bottom teeth, and her two lateral incisors (the teeth NEXT to the front teeth). Of course she does!
She loves soft stuffed animals. Still loves her silly Dipstick dog, and she loves her soft bunny from Auntie Emily, her soft bunny/blankie from Cousin Ben, and her soft sheep from Uncle Arlen.
Her favorite letter from her name is L. You saw that a few posts back, but she still just loves that L. It's all chewed up compared to the other letters.
She's wearing 12 month or 12-18 month clothes now, and she's wearing 18 month jammies. She's just too tall for those 12 month winter jammies!
One bit of sad news from her Dr. appointment was that we need to go see a pediatric optometrist because her tear ducts are still closed. They may need to be probed and opened up. Her eyes are watery quite often and drip out the outside edge of her eyes. We hope it is nothing to be too concerned with!
She loves to read books and especially loves to shred magazines. She's great at turning the pages for us when we read to her, and she can do this on command!
We are just really enjoying watching Clara grow and learn. She is a delight to be around and is so pleasant (unless she's cutting teeth!). We love being parents to such an amazing little girl!
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