My baby at nine months ...

Claire is now nine months as of Wednesday! We celebrated by a doctors appointment and mommy getting her work done early this week since we had a friend coming into town. Not much of a celebration for little miss.

Her doctors appointment went really well. No shots!!! She's 28.75 inches long (90th %tile) 19.96 lbs (75th %tile). She's doing really well developmentally and she continues to amaze us every day.

Some of her new-ish favorites at nine months:

Pulling up to standing and maneuvering everywhere

Other babies and children - she is so social.

Crawling really fast (she loves being chased)

Being naked - when we take of her diaper she flips over and crawls away as fast as she can and giggling the whole way. I let her play naked for about 10 minutes yesterday and she cracked up the whole time. For some reason all her normal toys and games were a little bit more fun naked ...

Imitating Ethan and I.

Singing, shouting, babbling

Giving "five"

Chasing Darby, then taking Darby's ball and crawling away with it so Darby will chase her

My two least-favorite developments:

Shutting the lap top - she's figured out how to close the lap top when she knows my attention has turned from her to getting some work done

Throwing her sippy cup on the ground - no matter where we are.

She continues to be the sweetest baby I have ever known. Her spirit is still so sweet and patient. The last few days she has been laying patiently in her crib after she wakes up until we pick her up.

Busy week ... haven't had time to edit any new photos!