Another Baby Marin Is Coming!: October 2011

Gotta start with a HUGE apology! I am so very late with these months of you. But...better late than never, right?! Right. I'm going to tackle months 9 and 10 on this post...so, HERE. WE. GO.

Month 9

Your Aunt Nora and cousins visited for a week. And they loved you! And you loved them! We were so happy to have them here to spend time with all of us!
Your second bottom tooth is starting to come through
When I say, "Who's a girl girl?", you raise your hand while I say, "Me!!!".
If I sing, "la la la"...you sing it back to me!
You can now sit in a shopping cart by yourself! Yay! Which means, no more baby carrier either, you are in a big girl car seat now!
Kyndall put you to bed while Mommy and Daddy went to a cross country meeting for her. You did good...only ate half your bottle...but went right to sleep!
You are scooting on your belly at 8 months, 3 weeks...you still love to roll too and have added in the army crawl.
You love to clap, clap, clap! To music especially!
You know how the monkey goes!
You moved up to the crawler room at church - even though we aren't "officially" crawling yet. =)
You LOVE peas!
Aunt Edna came to visit for a few days

10 Months

Your second bottom tooth is barely coming through
You went to your first high school football game to see your Sister march in the band. You loved being loud there with your Daddy!
Right at 10 months, we took out the 3rd cat nap for you in the schedule. The last month or so, sometimes you took it, sometimes you didn't...but now, it's officially out.
You can drink out of a straw and love it!
You put anything and everything in your mouth! You pulled a small barrette out of your hair today and ate it and tried to swallow it. Your Daddy pounded on your back and thankfully, it came back up! No more barrettes in your hair!
Can sit up by yourself - lowered your bed!
Went to the doc for your well check. You are 20 pounds 8 ounces and 29 inches long!
Knows how to kiss!
Clicks your tongue
Gets up on all fours and rocks
Says Mama and Dada a lot
Dances to music while sitting up
Had your first overnight with Uncle Ray and Aunt Brenda - did great!
You try to say so many words now!
You can crawl! Right at 9 months 3 weeks - better late than never! Now you are getting so ornery with crawling! Getting into everything!
You love bananas - used to hate them when they were pureed!
You eat around 20-22 oz of formula per day. Not finishing your bottles like you used to!
Pa and Mimi came to visit again - and you love them! They were worried you wouldn't remember them, but you warmed up quickly! Especially with Pa - he can really make you smile. You love to wave at him real cute and say "Hiiiiiiiii". It is the cutest thing ever. You know how to turn on the charm!
Love peek-a-boo!

Wow, baby girl...just looking through the two lists above, you are really growing! You just got your second ear infection a few days ago, so we are fighting that with antibiotics right now. It was almost comforting to your Mommy that something was wrong because you were screaming and screeching so much the days before, I wasn't sure I could take much more! Even your MiMi commented how you sounded like an atom bomb! =) You are on the mend now!

And you read it right, you finally learned to crawl! Whew! I think you knew how to roll so very well and could get anywhere you needed to go, so you didn't NEED to crawl real soon. But, now that you know how to crawl...you are a crazy crawler! Fast and into EVERYTHING. =) We are definitely starting to discipline! Usually you just look at us and smile when we do. Not cool, baby girl, not cool. I have a feeling these next few months are going to be a bit more trying for your Daddy and me than it has been in the past. =)

Here's some favorite pictures from the past two months....