9 months

Kate is now 9 months old!! Crazy that I have had her as long as I was pregnant with her. She of course is wonderful. We had her 9 month old appt yesterday. She is now 17 lbs (27%) this is a huge increase for her, she went from 3% to 27%!! No wonder she looks cubby to me =). Her height is 25.5 inches (0.8%) She went from 0.1% to 0.8%. She is still below the normal curves so technically she has the diagnosis of "short in stature". But her curve looks better so if she continues in the that way she should be fine by age 2. If not and she stays below the curves at age 2 they start to do a work up and see why she isn't grow (height wise very well). We are not short people so it is more concerning that if we were both really short people. Her head is in the 90%. Which makes her disproportional but she doesn't look that way to me. But she is healthy and happy and developing great. She started to push up on to all fours this week and rock, so I think she will crawl with in the month. She is happy and a very easy baby. She loves her sister of course and watches everything she does. She now has developed stranger danger and cries if anyone she doesn't know gets to close. This makes it hard to go to the gym, last time I went she cried most of my class and they came and got me after 45 minutes. (Way to long to let her cry!). I now try and find ways to exercise with out having to take her to the gym daycare. Her hair went straight after she lost the newborn hair and grew new hair but recently the ends have started to curl so we will see. Her hair is still brown just lighter than when she was born. She now is so interactive and interested in her surroundings that she has to have something to play with at all times. She also doesn't let me cuddle her very much =(. The only time she will cuddle with me is at night when I am putting her to bed and even then it is very short. (She likes to sleep in her crib) Here are some pictures I took of her by our tree.

Look at those rolls!

of course Alyssa had to get a picture with her sister!