Brooke is 9 Months Old

Brooke turned nine months old on June 19th!  She is so much fun to have around and definitely keeps me on my toes!  At her nine month check- up she weighed 21 pounds which is the 85 percentile to weight.  She was 28.15 inches long which is the 72 percentile for length. 

 Here are some of the things that she is up to:
**She got her first two bottom teeth.  She had a hard time with teething and would wake up crying in the middle of the night for a couple of weeks.
**She crawls all over the place.
**She can crawl up stairs.
**She had fallen down our stairs into the family room twice.
**She pulls herself up onto things and walks along them.
**She is starting to get more clingy to me.

**She crawls to me and stands up next to my leg all the time.
**She loves to pull herself up on the kitchen cabinets.
**She won't hold still to get her clothes or her diapers changed.

**She is constantly moving.  She wouldn't even hold still for me to take pictures of her.
**She loves to play with toys.  She gets exceptionally excited when I let her play with one of Lydia's toys while Lydia is napping.
**She waves bye bye.
**She loves to clap.
**She loves to dance.  She dances by putting her hands in a fist and moving her arms up and down and then she starts to bounce.  Lydia watches My Little Ponies and Brooke always starts dancing during the opening theme song.

 

 **She makes the cutest little facial expression with her mouth (you can somewhat see it in the next picture).

**She is almost always happy.
**She loves to eat and loves to eat table scraps.
**She loves playing in the bath tub.  She always takes baths with Lydia and she is very patient about Lydia dumping the water on her head over and over.
**She wants to do whatever Lydia is doing and always wants to be right by her (or me).

 

**She will walk if she is holding onto someone or pushing the walker.
**She jibber jabbers a lot and can be quite a talkative baby.

Here is another picture of her making the cute facial expression that I like.  I think that she is feeling her teeth with her lip or something, but regardless it is so cute and she does it quite often.

Brooke is such a good baby and we are blessed to have her in our lives.  She keeps us busy and she has to be supervised at all times because she loves exploring to see what everything is.