9 Months

This month has been very busy! Lily started crawling and we went on vacation, 2 things I have already posted about here, so I won't spend a lot of time on them, and this post probably won't be too long. She is everywhere these days- if I believed in entering babies into contests, I would find a speed crawling one for her! She is also doing a lot of cruising and can transfer from one piece of furniture to another if they are within a foot of each other. We spend most nights finding ways to block off the living room so that she can roam safely. I shouldn't be surprised at this point, but it seems like she finds some new unsafe thing to get into each night for us to deal with.

We started off the month with a trip to Jackson for Clay's cousin's wedding. We stayed with Josh and Elise, and had lots of fun getting to spend time with little Isabel. This is the ride up there- she thought she was being sneaky in the dark, but my phone flash caught her:

On our way to the reception:

She was very tired after dancing to "My Girl" with Daddy:

He messiest meal yet - penne and meatballs:

  Playing in the lobby outside Daddy's office:

Her reaction to new people that would walk by:

PlayFun in the sun:

This is the head shake game we discovered in FL (sorry about the audiobook in the background):

As far as development, she is getting pretty good with her cup, and has mastered a straw. Her mobility is moving along very quickly- I imagine she will be walking soon. She likes everything we have given her to eat so far, except juice, which is fine with me because it's not good for her anyway. I would be surprised if we found a fruit/vegetable in the average produce department that she had not had at least once, but her favorites are zuchini, yellow squash, and watermelon. She also loves all meats and pastas. She makes the mama and dada sounds, but I don't think she has purposefully called for one of us yet. She knows who we are, though, because if I ask where dada is, she will look right at him and smile (and vice versa). Other than that, the only other thing she really says that is purposeful is "uh oh" (which is super cute, in my opinion). Otherwise, she does a lot of shouting! I think she is experiementing with volume right now :)