Nine Months

9 months

Here are your stats from your recent 9 month well-visit:

     Weight: 19 lbs 13 ounces (69th percentile)
     Length: 28.5 inches (82nd percentile)
     Head Circumference: 18 inches (81st percentile)

Daddy and me waiting on the doctor

Schedule/Sleeping: You're still a consistently good sleeper, like you have been from the beginning. You sleep from about 7:30 pm to 7:00 am (sometimes a bit earlier but you LOVE moving around and talking to yourself in your crib until 7:00 or so). You take a morning nap (ideally 9:30 am to 11:00 am) and an afternoon nap (ideally 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm), but your naps are beginning to get a little shorter as you approach the age where you drop another one. 

Feeding: You love ALL kinds of fruits and veggies, pretty much anything and everything. Your favorites are sweet potato, avocado, peas, and apples, but you'll pretty much eat any fruit and vegetable. And no matter how full you are, you always find space for yogurt! You're still eating some purees, but you've started eating more and more finger foods the last month or so and now you also love cheese, egg yolk, turkey and chicken. You have four (4-5 ounce) bottles a day (around 7:30 am, 11:30 am, 4:30 pm and 7:00 pm). Not sure how we are ever going to get rid of bottles in a few months, but we'll cross that path when we get to it.

Physical/Social Development: Crawling (well, really more of an army crawl, especially moving from crawl to sit position), standing (with support, you love showing off your chunky thighs), pulling up on anything that will support you, playing with friends and choosing different toys to share with them (kind of), imitating sounds and expressions, and babbling all sorts of words (no "ma-ma" yet but hoping that comes soon!).