9 Months Old!

Cadence had her 9 month well check-up this past Wednesday. The little peanut weighs 16 pounds and 15 ounces...almost 17 pounds (25th percentile) and is 27.75 inches tall (50th percentile). As you can see in the posts below, she's strong enough to crawl, but hasn't quite figured it out! She's babbling a lot these days and absolutely adores Scarlet. She's kind of in a funny phase right now - she really wants nothing to do with her baby food! As soon as she sees the spoon head towards her mouth, she puts her hands up and tries to shove you away. If she's in a good mood, you can distract her and she'll eat, but otherwise, she'd rather eat Cheerios and Goldfish crackers! Poor thing needs some more teeth so she can eat some real food. We've tried pieces of bread, cut up green beans, mashed up banana, etc. Some things she can mash up with her gums, some make her gag. She has one bottom tooth that is almost all the way in and another on its way. She's still a pretty happy baby! She sleeps very well at night and since she's discovered she can sleep on her belly, she doesn't wake up much!

Pretty in pink in her outfit from the Izzos!

Grandma got her some bows for her hair!

Crawl Practice

Chicken Wing Dance!

Cadence LOVES Her Puppy!

Happy Baby

Mom captured a great picture last week while she was watching Cadence. She's such a happy baby! Her first tooth is finally coming in and she's trying to talk more! She says "hi" and tries to say "puppy" - it ends up sounding like "uppy" or "baby." Daycare said they're trying to teach her to say "mommy" - I would love that! She still doesn't want to crawl. She'll scrunch her knees up while she's on her belly, but doesn't really go anywhere. We can't wait for her to crawl! Even though that means baby proofing EVERYTHING. We have her 9 month well check-up next week. I'm guessing a 17 pound peanut! She's so tiny! She's expanding her palate - we stopped by McDonald's before we went grocery shopping this weekend. We let her try some orange juice, some biscuit and she loved the oatmeal! I even let her try some hummus when I got home from work! Hopefully she gets more teeth soon - she loves to eat, but can't really eat anything yet!

Peak-a-boo!

We started putting blankets and burp cloths over Cadence's head to play peak-a-boo -- recently, she started playing by herself! She gets a kick out of it...and so do we!

More, Please!

Between daycare and home, Cadence has learned how to say, "more" in sign language! It's similar to clapping, but we can tell the difference! One night, I was washing some dishes and Danny was making salads for dinner and he looked over and she was signing! It was really cute. We've been working on "food" and "milk" too!