Holy cow... Lucy is 9 months old!
Lucy at 9 months old is a baby who does not like to stop moving. She crawls everywhere, pulls herself up to a stand on everything and recently has found our stairs and loves to try to climb them. She also loves to crawl to the dog bowls and play in the water. She has started to clap her hands together and loves to turn pages in her flap books and also her Baby Faces book.
Lucy weighs: 15 pounds 3 ounces
Height: 2 feet 3.8 inches
Teeth: 4
Eyes: Dark Brown
Hair: Blonde
Lucy has become a very good eater. She enjoys chicken, hamburger, sausage, crackers, Cheerios and toast. Yogurt and cheese are also yummy. She has become very skilled at the finger pincher technique and so picks up her food from her tray very well. She still has some of her pureed foods but I am hoping to start transitioning her to diced food very soon. Currently, when she is all done she will just cry so we are still working on baby sign language for 'more' and 'all done'. The last couple of nights she has gotten very good at signing 'all done'. She is still nursing about four times a day.
She has the greatest laugh and likes to be tickled. Lucy adores big brother Liam and many times will laugh at him when he is trying to get her to notice him. She also adores the dog, often times crawling to be near her or crawling over her and falling on her face. Butters is very good at allowing her to be near her. (even though I'm sure she would much rather be left alone) She likes to watch Caroline as well but Caroline still gets a bit too close so Lucy is trying to figure out how not to be knocked over instead of enjoying her sister.
Lucy takes two very good naps during the day. We usually put her to bed still awake and she may cry for a little bit but can and does put herself to sleep most of the time. We are still trying to figure out what we are doing at night though. She will put herself to sleep at night or I nurse her to sleep and then will sleep from 8 pm-3 am. Evan has been going in trying to get her to go to back to sleep. Currently that involves him picking her up (which goes against everything that we have read about sleep training) and helping her go back to sleep. In the beginning she would then sleep until 5 am, where I would go in and nurse her, then put her back to bed (again!) until around 7 am. Most recently, she has become very upset to see Evan (instead of me) and will not go back to sleep. A few most recent nights she has stayed awake crying for almost one hour. *sigh* I do not know what to do about this and am giving in so easily by just feeding her so that we can all go right back to bed. Although, I know that I would LOVE to get a full nights sleep again. It's been way too long for me!
Lucy is wearing her 6-12 month and her 9 month clothes. This is so weird to me. I mean, yes she is 9 months old so it totally makes sense that she should be wearing that size right? Except that Liam and Caroline were both usually one size smaller than their age. Meaning that at 9 months they still wore 6 month clothes and by age 2 they could still fit in 12 month pants. While Liam and Caroline are short and stout, Lucy is long and lean. I think she will be tall like her Daddy. Which also means that Christmas dress I bought for her in February on clearance probably won't fit her come December. *sad face*
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| She is SO mad at me for trying to put her hair up. |
Lucy is making lots of different sounds with "da" or "do" being on the top of the list. It's quite possible that her first word may be dog. She crawls over to the dog and climbs on the dog and the whole time says "da, da, da". She has even made some sounds like "Mom". A couple times I noticed it in the middle of the night, but it is the middle of the night and I thought my brain was playing tricks on me. But the third time I heard it was when Evan was trying to put her down for her nap and she was crying and very clearly saying "mom". She won't and hasn't said it since.
