Nine Months Old

Maddy is nine months old today!  This month has been a whirwind.

She has spent the last month sleeping in this portable bed.  With us moving around so much, napping hasn't been as easy as it used to be.  She still wakes up 3-5 times each night to eat or find her pacifier.

She has given us her share of grumpy faces lately.  This one was after an upper GI to figure out way she can't hold down any solids (cereal or pureed baby food) lately.  And she's been less than thrilled about all the hours she had to spent in her car seat.  Plus she's been strapped into this reclining stroller a lot.

So it was a good month for her to develop her sense of humor.  She loves pulling blankets big and small over her face to play peekaboo.  It's truly precious.

She now also prefers to be carried like this so she sees everything upside down.  This is not a very comfortable position for whoever's carrying her.  She loves being mobile.  She's still not crawling but she gets where she needs to go by pivoting and rolling.

Her new favorite silly face.  While doing this she exhales loudly through her nose.  Such a goofball.

Her cuteness has even won Ben over.  He will do just about anything to make her smile.  Here he is shaking his head back and forth, which for some reason seems to amuse both of them.  It's so neat to see them starting to play with each other.