Falling Ahead

I had every intention of writing a 9 month post yesterday but life with baby is busier than ever. Now that SHE IS ON THE MOVE! That’s right. She is crawling now. The difference between 8 month Emery and 9 month Emery is incredible. She is doing so much more. Crawling, trying to stand up, sometimes she is successful at standing, I am pretty sure she waved bye bye the other day, and she is curious about everything. It really is funny the difference a month makes.

Her 9 month stats:

22 lbs ~ 92%

29 inches ~ 92%

And her head circumference is 94% so she is big all over, the doctor called her “proportional” so that’s good!

She is still a happy baby. Eating and loving everything. Still have yet to find something she won’t eat, knock on wood. I know that stage will be coming but for now just trying to experiment with lots of different foods. So far this week she has had risotto and apple cinnamon oatmeal. I am enjoying getting her into chunkier foods now that she is moving into the Chunky Food Phase of my baby cookbook (9-11 month phase).

Talked to her pediatrician yesterday about starting the weaning process. Will and I are taking a trip to Hawaii soon sans baby and we need to get her weaned before I go. So he said to drop off one feeding a week (she currently feed 4-5x a day). So that should leave me with about one week to “get back to normal” if you know what I mean. So hopefully it all works out. No one wants to be engorged on vaca in a bathing suit.

This morning she noticed the stairs for the first time. Figured it was only a matter of time. The dogs are always on the stairs and she loves to watch them. Time for the gates! I bought a groupon recently for a baby proofing company. Its time to call them and have them come over for the one hour consultation. Did you know you need toilet seat safety devices? The doctor told me that yesterday. I had no idea. Good thing I have the groupon. He said babies can drown in buckets of water. Crazy. He recommended this website: www.totsafe.com   So I need to check that out.

Before she stole Lucy’s ball. Lucy eventually got it back, that did not make for a happy baby.

Success at pulling herself up to standing, using me for a prop as always.

A picture from our first Mother’s Day. We went to dinner at Canjun Queen in Charlotte.I had a great first Mother’s Day. It started with french toast made by Will, roses from Emery, dinner, and a great card complete with pedicure from Will!

Since Will was away last weekend we are had a family day yesterday. We started by taking the dogs to get groomed and wound up in Davidson at Toast. While Will and I enjoyed pancakes and stuffed french toast (yum!) Emery had to enjoy a bottle. But she did get to try melon for the first time and had some pineapple from my fruit cup.

After breakfast we went to the farmer’s market in Davidson. I love farmer’s market and this one is one of the best around in my opinion. I love this town too. So cute and small townish. There were so many cute dogs for Emery to squeal at, especially a little Chihuahua. I scored a few plants for my new vegetable garden and we were on our way, but I will need to go back for more.

When we came home she took a nice little nap, then woke up for some lunch. A kale, blueberry, and banana smoothie with a side of avocado. Emery likes to pretend to be a big girl by drinking from the cup directly. Which can be messy at times.

We ended the day at a BBQ with friends and a bomb fire. So all in all, a wonderful Saturday.

The free ride is over kid. Once you hit the 8 month mark the real world sets in. It’s time for some responsibility.

Emery is now in charge of all the cooking. It was a tough job for me to give up but I think she’ll do great. She is really pretty happy about it. To tell you the truth I think she was getting bored of just sleeping, eating, and playing all day. So obviously since she is only two feet tall she can’t use our kitchen yet. We had to get her her own kitchen.

Yesterday she made muffins. Maybe today she will try a veggie quiche.

This was my big find yesterday during our neighborhood yard sale. Totally worth the countless hours spent planning it. I got the inside scoop on what everyone was selling, which worked to my advantage so I was able to pounce on this little beauty before 7am. The set is complete with a pots, pans, “food”, and a refrigerator, which currently is sitting in our garage because it is too heavy for me to bring upstairs on my own (Will is out of town at the moment). I am pretty excited to show Will this when he gets home, so is Emery. I can’t wait to hear what he says when he finds out I am no longer going to be cooking.

Can you believe she is 8 months already? Neither can we! I must say that every time I write a monthly update but its true. Time just flies when you’re having fun.

Weight is around 20.5 lbs according to my super technical stand on the scale with her method. Height, must be taller than 27.5 inches because that’s what she was at 2 months ago.

Easter has come and gone. It was an Eebee Easter. Her basket was filled with Eebee toys. Peek-a-boo Eebee and Puppet Eebee and an Eebee book. We love us some Eebee. Eebee stands for “Every Baby” just in case your wondering.

So here is a little update on what 8 month old Emery is up to. She is scooting backwards all over. And falling forward onto her face when she tries to go forward. So crawling is still a work in progress. She wants to stand up all the time. And sometimes she will stand without assistance. Here she is checking out the bath tub.

I have finally found something this child doesn’t like to eat. Up until now she scarfs down pretty much whatever we give her. But she seems to not like yogurt. And to be honest, the whole milk plain organic yogurt is a little “yuck”. I tired it myself. I think she would enjoy the organic low fat vanilla stuff I buy myself…. but can you give babies low fat dairy? I thought they needed all the fat they can get.  We have also tried adding kale to our smoothies. Thanks to Ashley for the suggestion. And she seems to like that alot. Now that she is 8 months I need to look into her protein sources. I am pretty sure we are going to raise her vegetarian until she can make the decision to try meat on her own (if she ever wants to). So this is going to require some research. She loves this lentil and rice “soup” I make her, so hopefully she likes beans, etc. Hasn’t had tofu yet, not sure how much soy she should eat at this age, more things to research.

We visited New York last week. We were there for my friend Ashley’s baby shower. She is having twin boys!! So that was a lot of fun, I admit I had some serious bump envy when I saw her. #2 may on the way sooner rather than later… jk, sort of ;)

We had some good family time, it was a good weekend to go home. Babies can be a good pick me up from the stresses of life and I think my mom and GGT needed that. So I was happy to provide the baby. Here she is with Uncle Brett.

Sleeping is on a night by night basis. She goes to bed around 8 every night but sometimes she wakes up at 12, other times she sleeps right through to 7:30. Not sure what makes her wake up at 12 but its fine.

Bath time, she loves it. Until its time to get out. Haha. No buy really she loves to “splash, splash” and play with her toys. Thankfully bath time is no chore, it is one of the best parts of our day. She is taking baths by herself… but obviously supervised. Once she fell back into the water which is exactly why you never leave them unattended. Scared her and me even though I was right there.

Some randoms….