Ella at 9 months

Well Ella, you're now 9 (& 1/2, almost - oops!) months old. Here is a little about what you're up to these days. You are:

• 17 lbs, 12 oz and 27 inches long. That puts you in the 25-50% percentile for both weight and height. You're a petite little thing right now!
• pushing your push toys and doing lots of walking while holding onto our hands.
• climbing on anything you can hike your little knee up onto, including our stairs. :/
• getting more teeth on the top. You have your 2 bottom middle teeth right now, plus your right side lateral incisor, and 3 more trying to come in on top. I'm sure we'll see those any day now. You're always rubbing your little tongue over the top of your teeth, and you stick your tongue out at us a lot while doing that. Soooo cute! 
• nursing 5 times a day, and eating all table foods. You eat what we eat 90% of the time.... you're eally a great little eater, and you love to feed yourself! Also, a milestone this month is that you have officially joined us at the table for meals. The high chair takes up too much room in the new breakfast area, so I put you in a booster in the chair at the table, and I think you really love sitting with all of us to eat. And you look like such a big girl doing it, too. 
• not a fan of sippy cups, but you love drinking water out of a regular cup or a straw.
• down to 2 naps a day now. You've pretty much cut out your mid-day snooze that you were consistently taking. And your afternoon nap lately has been shorter than usual. I'm hoping this is just a phase and that my good little napper is back soon. Most of the time Carter actually gets more sleep than you do during the day.... that is crazy! 
• still a Momma's girl, big time. Not sure how I'm ever gonna wean you!! 
• such a little mockingbird! You cough, laugh, dance, say "ma ma ma" "ba ba ba" and "da da da" all on command now.
• you love to dance when you hear any kind of music.... and by dance I mean bounce up and down, bob your little head, and of course, give the cutest smile ever while doing so.
• waving bye-bye. I think I might be able to officially document your first word too. A few weeks ago (Mon 7/7/12), Daddy came and gave you a kiss because I was about to put you down for a nap, and as we walked away from him, you waved your hand and said, "Buh." We couldn't believe it! Sweet moment, for sure!
• you have handled the transition of moving really well. We even threw in the middle of it a week long family vacation, and that really didn't phase you much at all. You napped normally and slept great at night the entire time, and have been such a little trooper with all the activity and craziness going on around you. Very proud of you, baby girl!
  

I really cannot believe you will be ONE in 3 short months. I better start thinking about your 1st birthday party!!