3 months

I was doing the math the other day... Kiley is 9 months old already and that is only three months until she turns 1! I've said it before and I'll say it again- where does the time go?

We had her in for her 9 month check up last week and I thought I'd share some statistics, mostly so I can look back and remember how little she was at this point of her life.

Kiley is 15 pounds 4 oz. She's about 23 inches long- I thought that was pretty tall, but some babies are born that long, so I guess it's all relative. She's in about the 7th percentile overall for height and weight, so she's petite.

Some of her latest tricks:

• Tries to wave goodbye when we drop her off at daycare. Comes off as a stiff arm flapping up and down, but it sure is cute.
• She sits up all on her own, but she can't quite pull herself up to sit from laying down, though she sure tries and lets you know how unhappy she is about it.
• Once sitting, she really just wants to be standing or crawling. She sort of perches up on her knee and launches herself forward into the ground.
• Once on the ground, she tries to do the army crawl to get whatever it is she wants.
• What she wants- anything Jaxon has. And the teeniest, tiniest speck of anything on the ground.
• Kiley has been babbling the 'guh' and 'duh' sounds for awhile now, and she has started putting strings of sounds together. Sometimes when we are having our dance parties, it sounds like she is singing along with the music.

• Kiley loves the music. We put her in the johnny jumper and she goes nuts!  She loves it even more when Jaxon is dancing around her.
• Kiley also loves her bathtime. She splashes me till I'm covered in water and loves to watch Jaxon run around the shower.

• She loves to pull Jaxon's hair, eat my hair, and just tonight when I was giving her a bottle, she seemed to discover that indeed, she has some hair. She started playing wiht it to soothe herself. It was cute.
• We're still not sleeping through the night... and usually around 1:30 or 3:30 when she wakes up crying, you might hear Scott slam his fist into the bed and say 'this is so stupid. why can't she just go to sleep?'.

• Kiley's been eating what we've been eating for the past few days. Tonight I made stuffed bell peppers for dinner and then ground it up for her. She's also had lasagna and mac and cheese. She eats any kind of fruit for the most part but has a hard time getting it all in her mouth. Girl loves to eat. Now, if only her mom and dad would remember to put a bib on her...