Nine months!

Guest post by Mommy:

It's true. It's been a whole month since the eight month post. It FLEW BY. I mean fastest one yet. It had a lot to do with our jam packed end of summer weeks, but Iva just gets cuter.

Not a lot of changes this month. She's just getting better at everything. She's a fast crawler, pulls up on EVERYTHING, loves food.  LOVES FOOD. She spits out her binki, sometimes THROWS it across the room, if you even approach her with something that resembles a drink or food in your hand. She could have just eaten a full meal and she wants it. I really let her try just about anything. Her big sisters are her favorites. I'm her favorite out of Pete and I, but she lights up around her sisters. She just loves to be in the same room. She plays for hours on the floor in our living room, pulling up on everything, grabbing toys, following the big kids around, she's pretty easy going. She's getting pretty steady on her feet. I think standing on her own is in the very near future. Walking might still be a ways away. She's very good at falling though! She just rolls with it. It's kind of funny to watch. 

She actually spent her first full night away from Mom just last weekend. Thank you, Aunt Angie for being our guinea pig. It was rough. She's still nursing and does not appreciate milk from a different kind of nipple. Plus when you tend to co sleep (don't report me!), you also tend to nurse all night long without realizing it! Angie didn't get as much sleep as she normally does, but she said she survived. We are now in the process of weaning Miss Iva at night and getting her to sleep in her crib so that I can go on an overnighter to Disneyland with Pete with much less stress!

We might have been a little naughty and let her do some riding forward facing. It makes her look so tiny as opposed to huge in her old car seat! 

11:00 church is hard on her...so sleepy.

Water baby. She loves it.

What rolls?

She figured out she can stand up in the crib if she doesn't want to go to bed!

Edit: As of 8/19 Iva weighed in at 20 lbs 7 oz which had her dropping into the 75%! She IS getting skinnier! She was also 27.4 inches long. Woowoo. She's only in the 27% for height but hey we always knew that was going to be that way!