9 Month Update

Elyse is now 9 months old!!

She weighs 16 lbs 10 oz and is 27 1/4 " long

- Elyse didn't put on much weight or grow very long this past month, I guess all her food is going into moving her body
- Elyse is still crawling like crazy and absolutely everything goes into her mouth
- She also pulls up on everything and can move along the entire length of the couch, but not really confident to move from the couch to the chair
- She can hold on with only one hand while she is standing
- She can now clap her hands together
- She waves both hands in the air - we call it "Jazz Hands"
- She wiggles her whole body when you ask her to "dance" or "shake it"
- She is getting the concept of waving hi and bye with one hand
- While she holds a toy in one hand, she pokes and plays with the toy with the other hand
- You can see she is learning to problem solve, there was a bucket full of toys just out of her reach, but there was a string attached to the bucket. She pulled the string to bring the bucket full of blocks closer to her
- We took her camping in Osoyoos, and she did great sleeping in a tent for the first time
- We also started sleep training, she is going to bed with out nursing to sleep. She does cry but we only have to go into her room once to settle her back down and then she is out. She is still up once during the night to nurse, but it is way better than the hour long nursing sessions to get her to go to sleep, and the up every couple of hours all night

The new foods that she has tried this month are:
Raspberry, cranberry apple sauce
Mango apple sauce
Ground Beef
Oatmeal
Turkey
Blue Berries
Cheerios
Mango
Kiwi
Rice with Orzo
Corn Flakes
Cauliflower
Yogurt
Lettus
Mashed Potatoes with Garlic
Raspberries

And much to my displeasure, she LOVES Bananas *Yuck* But I still give them to her lots

Elyse loves all kinds of books, so I put all of her board books down on the bottom shelves so she can "read" them her self

She sure is a cutie

What monkey! Attacking the camera