Little Miss E is nine months old now! She had her well visit this week and passed with flying colors! She is 17 lbs 6 oz (25%) and 28.75 inches (75%). She is petite, but the doctor showed us her progress on the chart and she is following one of the growth curves almost perfectly.
Elizabeth is a varied eater these days. She still loves her milk, but also enjoys lots of baby foods, cereal and lots of new finger foods! She likes Gerber Puffs the most and gets very mad when she runs out. Mom is determined to teach her to sign “more”, but E is determined that a growl/scream is an adequate request. We have just started the chunkier “stage 3” foods and Elizabeth seems to enjoy chewing little veggies and pastas in her meals. Ellie also has started trying sippy cups and seems to have a pleased surprise each time she is able to get water out of them.
Ellie continues to explore her surroundings. She is crawling at lightning speed and pulling up on everything. She thinks her high chair is actually a walker toy and the dishwasher is her personal full length mirror. Our house is full of lots of fun toys, but Elizabeth seeks out magazines, Ben’s cars and anything that looks like it is probably not for a baby (especially if it might be used to climb on).
Elizabeth has moved classes at school to the 9 – 18 month class. She is loving it and sure to let her teachers know what she likes. At pick up time the other day she was enjoying bubbles. The teacher stopped to talk to a parent and Elizabeth “charged” her and climbed up her legs and screeched until she got more bubbles. Nice. E also gets to go to the motor room and the teachers laugh at how she races around the perimeter crawling laps over and around all of the toys there are to play on.
We are looking forward to her first holiday season. She continues to bless us with love and joy each day!
How quickly Ellie has grown.
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