9 Months!

I took Lillie in for her 9 month check up on Monday.  She is doing so well.  Here are her stats:

Height: 28.75 inches (87%)

Weight: 18 lbs. 5 1/4 oz. (41%)

Head: 18.1 inches (94%)

She has such a funny personality.  She learns new tricks constantly.  Here are a few of her new tricks:

*crawls everywhere

*goes up the stairs, but not down (safely)

*says all sorts of new sounds like she just found the "z" sound

*picks up little tiny things that no other human being would probably see

*Loves to take things out of boxes/containers

*sings and dances

*walks along furniture and will try to let go

*opens and closes her fist to say come here

*loves to read books

*does naughty things on purpose (more on that in a min)

*drinks from a cup on her own (loves straws, sippy cups and water bottles)

Basically she is just learning how to be independent more and more everyday.

Now, about her naughtyness.  In our computer room, we have the computer sitting next to the computer desk with the internet modem on top of it.  Lillie likes to go over to it and look at the lights and stand up next to it because it is a great height for her to hold onto while standing.  She has just recently started knocking the modem off of the computer.  At first, I knew it was an accident.  Then we would start telling her "no" and taking her away from it.  She just thought it was a joke and would immediately crawl back over to it giggling.  Then we had to start getting more forceful about it.  Now, before she goes to touch it, she will look at me to see what I will do.  I will tell her no and stand up and she will either knock it off while staring at me, or she will turn around and crawl away.  If John says no, she will get away from it as fast as she can.  She totally knows what she is doing, the little stinker.

Yes the tongue has returned.