Orelia at Nine Months

Happy nine months to our sweet baby girl!  

She's happy and healthy, weighing 17 pounds 13 oz. (roughly 50th percentile) and measuring 27.25 inches (roughly 50th percentile).

She laughs and smiles a lot and makes us laugh a lot too.  She loves to talk and scream and generally carry on and be silly.

We've been doing sign language with her a lot and she is maybe starting to catch on to it a bit.  We think she tries to sign "more" to us when she wants more food.  She definitely understands what "more" means and turns to us to eat more when we say it.

She's a great eater, and we now feed her solids throughout the day.  She eats everything, but especially loves carbs like bread and crackers.  She loves her tart yogurt for breakfast every morning and loves nibbling on strawberries.

She isn't crawling, but still does lots of rolling and now does an army crawl.  She gets faster and more efficient every day.

John and Orelia started swim classes last week and Orelia loved it.  She's become quite the water baby, loving swimming, bath time, and our little baby pool.

Orelia also loves our weekly music classes.  She plays all the instruments, "sings", wiggles around, and is generally thrilled with the experience.

We hang out with our mom and baby friends all week, and both of us are happier when we are around our buddies.  The babies swap/steal toys, pat each other on the face, and squawk back and forth.  (The mommies just talk.)

Orelia loves to wave "hi" when she sees people she knows and also waves "hi" at Harper.  It's very sweet how much she loves her dog.

She is also thrilled that she can now clap, and does it whenever she is happy and excited.

It's great to see her learning new things all the time and growing up into our big girl.  We can't wait to see what she does next!