9 Months

Lola turned 9 months last week, and she is just the cutest thing imaginable! She is busy crawling around, pulling up on things, cruising around tables and standing and bouncing. She loves to shake maracas and generally bang things together. She is an expert at picking up cheerios with her little index finger and thumb, and even more fun is expertly picking them up and watching them drop over the side of the high chair. Cause and effect. She loves to play the head butt game and to try to eat your nose. She watches your mouth carefully when you makes sounds and will try to repeat them.

OMG! I am the cutest baby evah!

She is, at times, a nervous little baby. She cries when I sneeze or turn on the blender (or when Nina gets too close but that is probably for good reason). She would probably be interested to walk, but she sure isn't ready to let go of whatever is holding her up. Although she is starting to have longer stretches of independent play, she really just wants you to sit next to her. She plays for a few minutes then cries and comes over to touch you then maybe returns to what she was doing.

She is content to ride in the stroller watching the bigger children play and flashing big smiles at anyone passing by.