The End of 9 Months

Above is Hannah's 9 month picture with Maya. I started to think about Hannah's 1 year birthday party this week since it is only a couple months away. It really is so crazy to me that she is already that old. Since she has top and bottom teeth now, her new thing is to bite down on her blanket or bibs and yank them out. She continues to be more and more interested in finger foods, including chicken, ground beef, hard boiled eggs, minced bacon, corn, peas, and her favorite...shredded cheese. Half of it ends up on the floor or in her highchair, but it is fun to see her learn to feed herself. Maya is learning to hang around the highchair and clean up the scraps!!

Hannah and I laying on the floor while reading 10 Little Ladybugs, which happens to be her favorite book of the moment (thanks Aunt Joy)! Her new thing is to try and flip the pages of the book. She is starting to become familiar with some of the books and touches the same things on the pages every time.

Hannah on Valentine's Day in her adorable red dress, pink tights, and red boots! The above pic is the face we see when she isn't getting what she wants. How quickly it can stop when we figure out what she is mad about!

Here she is trying to crawl off the chair! Hannah has progressed into a more typical army crawl now. A new video is at the bottom. In the video I say something about it being faster, which in reality it is still a pretty slow way to get around the floor. She will get there...

She loves to stand at this table.
She has taken a couple small "cruising" steps to reach things on the table.

Maya and Hannah were looking at all the snow we got this past week. Nate has had 4 days off of school from all of the crazy winter weather!

She loves to reach out and touch faces as well as grabbing for glasses. Here she is playing with her own pair!

Mixture of Events

Last weekend we had two events...a baby shower for my sister and a Colts Superbowl party. Both were great fun, but sadly our Colts didn't come out victorious which was very disappointing. I am always sad when their season is over, but since time flies by (did I mention Hannah is 9 1/2 months old...ahh), I am sure the next season will come soon enough. I hosted the baby shower and it really was a lot of fun. Above is a picture of Hannah with both of her Grandmas at the shower! How cute is her outfit?!

Above is Hannah with the shower balloons. She has been pretty excited about them all week.

The diaper cake I made for Allison and Baby Josiah...

My sisters, Mom, and Grandma with Baby Josiah at the shower!

Hannah at the Colt's party. She is wearing one of my old jerseys that I cut the sleeves off of and tied in the back. She looks cute with the little football and Nate loves the game, but we will NOT encourage her to be a football player :)

Playing with Aunt Lindsey at the Colt's party.

Hannah is trying to pull up on things all the time, but her little arm muscles are just not strong enough yet! She almost has it though...I'd say give her another week or so :)

She is becoming quite the messy eater at times. Her latest thing is to swat at the spoon, which sends food flying. This girl just piles in the food. Tonight she nursed, then ate two full jars of food, a bowl of cereal, and continued to feed herself rice, toast, and crackers one fist full after another. She cracks us up.

This is a common position we find Hannah in when we come to get her after she has been sleeping. She tries to peek over the crib railing and is just staring at the door waiting for us!

Hannah is always trying to pull Nate's chest or armpit hair. I know, sort of gross, but also funny.

Below you can see all 3 of Hannah's teeth. She has been grinding her top and bottom teeth together!!! Not a very sweet sound, but oh such a sweet goofy smile!

9 month Pics and Videos

Here are some random pictures of Hannah we have taken in the last week.
I like the picture above because of her long eyelashes and kissable chubby cheeks!

Hannah has been rolling over to sleep on her stomach the past couple of weeks. I found her with her legs hanging out of the crib the other night. She didn't seem to mind :)

One of her very favorite things is when we rub our faces into her belly.
She just giggles and giggles. It is so cute.

She is really starting to love books.
If she starts to fuss, a lot of times giving her a book to look at will make her happy!

Just looking cute in her leopard print pants!

She got into a bookshelf when I wasn't looking! Might be time to "baby proof"!

Nate had just finished throwing her up in the air in this picture (below).
That is another thing she loves to do!

At the end, there are 2 videos...one of her waving hi and the other of her attempt at an army crawl!