NINE

My child has a little attitude. She is fearless. She is shy. She is into EVERYTHING. Absolutely LOVES water. (more on her first beach trip later) She LOVES books. She will literally sit down for 30 minutes looking at a book. She's nine months old. Is that normal? common? She eats about the same. 5 bottles a day. fruit/veggies at lunch and dinner and sometimes meat. She loves graham crackers and macaroni and cheese. She ripped a chocolate chip cookie out of my hand this morning and liked that. She likes cheese, cantaloupe, cheerios and bananas except she gets frustrated with bananas because they're slimy and she has a hard time picking the pieces up. She is always on the move.
She loves standing up, and tries to stand on her own. One of her favorite things is the sofa. If we are sitting on the sofa holding her, she loves to break away and go back and forth to the ends and hang over the sides. She talks a lot and since she discovered her fingers and pointing a while back, she loves to point and talk and most of the time it sounds/looks like she is scolding someone. She knows what "No" means and gets really mad when someone tells her that. She'll usually cry.

Here is Derek at 9 months:

Me at 9 months:

here she is showing off her tooth (and it looks like five more are on the way):

She loves clapping and music and she started waving last Sunday (9.6.09). tonight she was waving at herself in the mirror and laughing. Silly girl. I love her to pieces.