9 Months!

Yep- 9 months! Sophia has been alive as long as it took to make her (weird way to look at it?)

Here are some of my favorite things about Sophia now:

1) Crawling: real crawling, all over- and getting faster every day. It is getting exceptionally dangerous to leave her alone anywhere

2) Standing up: she has started pulling herself up to standing- especially when she's in her crib. She'll usually be standing up when we go in to get her after sleeping. Like she's just ready to go! This new development has made everything on our coffee table and entertainment center in immediate danger. We'll have to work on that.

3) Teeth- finally! I swear this girl has been "teething" for forever. She has gotten her two bottom teeth at the same time. I tried getting a picture, but that proved near impossible, so you'll have to just take my word for it

4) Attention, attention: she always wants my attention. If I am doing something, she comes over and talks at my feet and pulls at my pant legs. It is very cute, and luckily she gets about all the attention she wants.

5) Sharing or not: anything anyone else is using, like a toy or a spoon or even Petra and her bone, Sophia will just go over and take it to see it. But only if you are currently using it is it interesting, poor Petra can't catch a break to just chew her bone in peace.

6) Smiley: she is just all smiles all the time. I am so lucky! When I come home from work in the morning, she usually has just woken up and is playing in her room. I go and say hello and she gets this BIG smile, squeals, and then crawls after me as fast as she can. It melts my heart every time.

7) She loves her Daddy: Rick watches Sophia while I sleep after work, and they have so much fun together. He can always get her to laugh, and I love watching them.

8) Such a cute sleeper: when I put Sophia in her crib for her nap, she'll grab her blanket and just totally flop down, and suck her fingers with her butt up in the air to fall asleep. It is just too darn cute.

Sorry some of these pictures are blurry. Moving baby= difficult to focus camera. But you can still see how cute she is!

She loved playing in this ballerina skirt- so interesting

So I am going to eventually post a video of her crawling- but in the mean time- here are pictures taken in automatic secession of her crawling. Just scroll down really fast- you can get the idea :D

Love this picture so much!

Happy 9 months Sophia!