9 Months!

No, I’m not pregnant again; that is how old Geneva is today. ;)

We don’t go for the well check until the end of the month, so I don’t know exact height and weight.

But here is what I do know:

• drinks from a straw (even a hard one that you have to pinch at the top)
• loves finger foods; eats a huge variety of foods
• pulls up to everything, even one handed
• can “walk” with a slow moving object (e.g. a sliding box across carpet)
• crawls quickly and quietly to things she is not supposed to get into (e.g. dog water!)
• says “mama” and “dad” in response to seeing us or hearing our voices
• is beginning to clap for herself
• always turns and looks toward her name
• has good joint attention
• loves her belly to be kissed and chin to be tickled and anticipates such (those last three are for my fellow school psychs)
• holds and turns the pages of a board book (still rough with paper pages)
• does a straight handed wave and says “hi”
• has one tooth that took f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to come in and is working on another (though at this rate it may be another 2 months)
• sleeps 10 hours per night with two-three naps per day
• has a favorite type of blanket that she manages to keep over her perfectly despite moving all over her crib
• is learning to pet the dog "gently" instead of grabbing fistfuls of hair
• attempts to say ‘doggie’ which sounds kind of like “daaa”
• stops when she hears ‘no’

Here’s Geneva as she goes from sitting still for a half second to coming at me and trying to get the camera.