9 Months!

Every month I say this, but I can't believe how fast time is going! My big baby is 9 months old! She's in the 75th percentile, weighs 20 pounds 5 ounces, and is 27 and 3/4 inches. She had her two bottom teeth come in and then the top two started poking out. Those top two were rough! She was such a sad baby! A couple days ago, I noticed a sneaky third bottom tooth poking out. I don't know where it came from. One day the spot was pure gums, the next a whole tooth was there!

Eila has been going through a nine month sleep regression. Nighttime has been filled with lots of tears (from both me and her) and naps have been pretty much non existent. This little baby will be dead asleep in my arms. I can jiggle her, do the arm drop test, take her paci out. . . and as long as she's in my arms, she's good. But as soon as she feels her body touch her crib, it's loud, tearful screaming. We've tried Dan putting her to bed instead, rocking her to sleep (usually she goes to bed awake), moving bed time earlier/later, letting her cry for a few minutes, and basically nothing works. The past couple of night have been a little better- not so much crying but still lots of waking up. I hope her sleep goes back to normal soon.

Part of the reason, besides whatever other sleep issues are going on, is Eila has also been refusing a bottle lately. She drinks 2 or 3 ounces while I'm at work and then waits until I get home to nurse. I know she's not starving during the day because she loves to eat solid food, but she still gets a lot of calories from milk (at night now).

Besides her sleeping/eating weirdness, she's such a fun baby! She loves to pull herself up and move around the room. She will spend big chunks of the day learning - it's so fun to watch her! For example, she spent a big part of the day standing up and throwing her sock (that she pulled off her foot because that's such a fun game). Then sit down, pick up her sock, stand up, throw it, and repeat in the same spot before moving to a new one and doing it some more.

She loves to be on the go, tap toys together, throw toys, snuggle her bunny (we finally got a backup, just in case), babble and yell! Her favorite foods are banana pancakes and anything anyone else is eating. She thinks drinking from a glass is super cool and always looks so proud when we let her have a sip of our water.

We did a test: we put Bunny and back up bunny down by Eila. She touched them both, picked them up, examined them, and then picked Bunny to snuggle and chew on! It was so cute!