Little Evin Kate isn’t
quite so little anymore…she turned 9 months old on December 20th.
Evin’s fun facts for this
month:
Weight: Probably close to 16 lbs
Length: About 26 ½ in
She has her 9 month
appointment at 9 months 10 days, so we will have more exact numbers then.
Clothes: Outgrowing 6 month and moving into 6-9 or 9
month
Shoe Size: Just started wearing 2s
Diaper Size: 2
Still taking 4 bottles a
day of fortified breastmilk. She takes
about 5-6 ounces each bottle and typically eats around 8, 12, 4, and 8:30.
She now takes her bottle
in about 10 minutes. This is amazing to
me considering just a couple of months ago she would take an hour to take a
bottle. We are so thankful that when it
comes to her eating, the stress level has gone down considerably!
Eats 3 meals of solids a
day. She loves solids and eats pretty
much everything I offer her except for green beans. She got that from her daddy!
She was waaay too busy for pictures this month.
She loves Puffs (a dry
baby cereal) and will continue to poke them in even if she isn’t hungry. She likes the sweet potato flavor. She will also eat strawberry flavored yogurt
melts, but she prefers Puffs.
She has mastered the
pincer grasp and is able to feed herself Puffs and small bites of bread.
She occasionally gets
small bites of our food and she usually likes it, but isn’t entirely sure how
to swallow food that isn’t pureed.
Still no teeth!
She had her first
Thanksgiving and she got to try turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green
beans, dressing and some bread. She
really only liked the mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes! I think the others still have too much
texture for her.
Started sitting up in a
high chair at restaurants. She loves it!
Usually takes 1 long nap
(1 ½-2 hours) and 1 short nap (45min-1 hour) each day.
Started sleeping on her
belly. I always lay her down on her
back, but it doesn’t take her long to flip to her belly and stay that way.
She is a rolling
machine. She flips so quickly back and
forth from her tummy and her back. She now
rolls all over the living room when I lay her down to play.
So much better at bearing
weight on her legs and is actually starting to prefer to stand than sit.
If you ask, “How big is
Evin?” she will hold her hands up above her head while you say, “This
big!” She only does it about half the
time and the other times she will grin and clap.
LOVES to give kisses! She gives big open-mouth kisses if you pucker
up.
Loved the Christmas tree
and decorations.
Did some Christmas
shopping with Mommy and is always a pretty good shopping buddy.
Really wants to crawl but
doesn’t have the upper body strength yet.
Babbles “dadada” all the time! Doesn’t quite associate it with her daddy
yet, but I’m sure she will soon.
Diaper changes have become
challenging because of all the rolling around.
She loves to point at
people and things.
Still a good car rider,
but fusses when I put her in her seat.
Once she has her paci, she is usually ok.
Still loves her bath. Started sitting in the tub like a big girl
last month, and towards the end of this month we borrowed a blow up tub in the
shape of a duck from Lane. She has the
best time playing with toys and patting the duck.
Still not great at playing
by herself and prefers to have someone sitting with her.
She makes hilarious faces. Evidence is below.
Favorite toys:
Anything with lights/music
Little People Nativity
Toy Cell Phone
Has had a lingering runny
nose much of this month. I don’t know if
she has allergies or if it is part of her cold from last month that is still
hanging on.
It is impossible to keep
socks on her! She pulls them off and
chews on them if they don’t fall off on their own.
Our babe has such a sweet,
funny personality. She seems to be
rather shy and reserved in public, but at home she is a wild girl! I get so excited when she learns something
new, but I also get sad because my baby is quickly turning into a big
girl. We love, love, love you Evin Kate!
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