Nine Months...

Happy girl!

This is how excited he gets when daddy gets home!!

I'm not supposed to chew on that?!!

Nine Months?!! It can't be! It's hard to believe my sweet little baby is inching closer and closer to becoming a One Year Old! You'll always be my sweet baby though no matter the age :)

Speaking of turning one, I did finally decide your first birthday theme! I am pretty excited about it! I love yellow on you and the song "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine" so we are doing a yellow and gray theme to go along with the song.  I hope it all turns out great.  I need to finalize all the details and location and what not but hey I have at least 1 month before I really need to buckle down for invites and what not :)

Stats...

Weight: 21 lbs

Height: tbd next Friday. She's a busy bee!

Eating: Oh little lady, you can put away the food! You LOVE to eat and eat pretty much anything that we eat.  You really love the little cutie oranges.  You eat one almost every day. (Your diapers are pretty gros but you love love them!!)  You also are eating things by yourself for the most part.  I will cut things up small enough if it is too big and you self-feed.  It's kind of nice when I am trying to finish supper or do something.  I can put you in your high chair and give you some cheerios and you will wait until I finish whatever it is I make/made.  You still get about 4 bottles a day.

Bedtime:  You're becoming a rockstar at this-compared to your "old ways" and I am a little afraid to even say that you're doing so well for fear you will go back.  You go down anywhere from 7:30-10.  There for a few nights you were hitting a second wind come 8 and ready to party for a few hours until I make you give in :) but normally its about 8 that you go down and sleep until 7ish give or take.  You do occasionally wake up in the middle of the night but go back down withing a few minutes.

Awake:  If we look at today for example, you only had a 20 minute nap at lunch time and survived until our way home from mom's work which was at 4:15.  You are one tough cookie and you didn't even really fuss or get cranky.  On a normal day; however, you get two naps one in the morning and one in the afternoon.  They can vary between 30 minutes to a few hours.

Clothes: You're in 12 month for the most part but some 9 month still fits.  I just decided to start getting you 12 month clothes-mostly t-shirts becaue they are way easier to get you dressed in because we get you dressed while you are on the move.  Your shorts or 12 month but could probably even be 18 month because some  pairs are definitely booty shorts haha.  It's ok, you're stinkin' cute!

Favorites: Pretty much you love everything.  You are a pretty happy baby for the most part until its nap time or bedtime.  You will mock us when we laugh or say simple thigns like "ya".  A couple of weeks ago I asked if the lunch was good to dad and he said Ya and you felt the need to let me know yours was good too :) Your personality is shining through more and more.  you're such a turkey its hilarious to see what you are pulling next.  You like to do this shy gesture where you shrug your shoulders kinda.  You also make faces at me and have the BIGGEST smile full of teeth! Oh you light up our worlds we can't get enough!  You love books and getting every single one out and reading through them. I moved the one box of books to help block the tv and you were pretty upset when you realized they were moved.  Once I showed you where they were you were fine! Smart girl-keep reading!  Your favorite toy is your little fish.  You are attached to that thing I am positive.

Latest Milestones: You take big girl baths in the tub now! We decided to get rid of the whale tub so you could have more wiggle room.  You have taken baths without it several times at Grandmas so knew it wouldn't be a problem here.  You are walking all over the place holding on to things and hands.  You can even walk just holding on to ONE hand!! I'm pretty proud of you! You are a speedy little learner!  You are self feeding-which I've already talked about.  You went to your first little concert :) Haha not really but Bryson and Sawyer's band were playing here in Great Bend at some thign so we checked it out! You loved Bryson singing Rock Me Mama to you! Talking a TON! Most of it is gibberish of course but I love it.  You have been saying ma and da but I think you have tied ma to me which is pretty awesome.  You say bye and wave bye bye.  That can be hit or miss as its a new thing we're working on. 

Daylynn, You are the greatest thing that ever happened to us and we love you more than you will ever know! You are an onery little booger but we love it.  Thanks for being the cutie patootie you are and always making us smile!

Love, mom and dad