Mika at 9 Months

• She weighs 18 pounds and measures 27.5 inches.
• I was giving her purees, and she loved them at first. After a few weeks she started hating being spoon fed, so now I just put her food on her tray. She loves food and yells at me if I'm eating and she doesn't have food. She takes for.ev.er to eat. She spends about an hour eating teeny tiny bits at a time. She loves to throw food over the edge of the tray and watch it fall on the floor. She also can eat out of those puree pouches. She can do the pincer grasp well enough to pick up Cheerios.

• She can smoothly go from sitting to crawling to sitting. She used to just flop onto her stomach. She also does this sort of plank thing where she holds her weight on her hands and feet. She does "real" crawling now. She also started pulling up.

First day pulling up!

• She is a little troublemaker, always crawling where she's not supposed to (bathrooms) and taking wipes out of the case. She follows me around the house now, and sometimes she will follow Jackson around.
• We don't tie her hair up in the "waterspout" anymore, we just clip it to the side. Jackson likes to pick out her bows.

Every eight-month-old girl needs bows and furs...right?

(Not showing off, the fur vest was $7 from Babies R Us on clearance.)

• She loves playing games. She made one up where she pushes my face to the side and then I turn back and look at her. She does it over and over and thinks it's hilarious. And she thinks it's funny to crawl around the bed when she's supposed to be sleeping.
• She still loves to blow raspberries. She also loves to make zombie noises.
• She is a lot more interactive with Jackson and can sort of play with him. 

  Mika pooping by an open fire...Jack Frost nipping at your nose...