Dear Hadley and Harper,
9 months old has been so much fun! You girls talk and laugh all the time. I so enjoy lying on the floor with you, tickling and rolling around. You shake your head No No No when you want to play, because you know it always makes us laugh. Your absolute favorite game to play is Peek a Boo. You laugh out loud every time we say “boo.” You play it by yourself and you play it with each other.
You girls have your first cold. Two sick babies is a lot of work. We called poison control for the first time this month because I gave you Benadryl before bed……and so did your dadJ. It was no big deal, but we called just to make sure.
You can both sit up on your own very well and with great posture. You pull up to your knees. Hadley, you are days away from pulling up to your feet. Your favorite show to watch is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. I like to hear your daddy sing all of the Mickey Mouse songs.
You are still taking 2 naps a day. You sleep 12-13 hours at night. Your naps last about 2 hours sometimes 3 hours. We put you to bed around 6:30 or 7pm. And you sleep until 7:30ish in the morning. You are wearing 6 months clothes and some 9month pajamas. You wear size 3 diapers. We go through about 10 diapers a day and an extra large canister of formula in 5-7 days. You are starting to drink less formula in your bottles and eat more table food (4, 6oz bottles a day). You girls have tried a lot of new foods this month and you are pretty good at picking up the food and putting it into your mouth. You mostly eat peas, green beans, bananas, strawberries, macaroni noodles, cheese, chopped up chicken, scrambled eggs and still some baby food like sweet potatoes and apple sauce. And your FAVORITE snack is veggie straws. You hate your car seat, especially you Harper, so I am constantly passing Veggie Straws back to you just to avoid screaming.
Hadley I love that you smile when you hear someone else laughing. You have such a happy spirit. You crawl into the playroom by yourself and get out your favorite toys and books to play. I would say that you are the “ring leader” of the head shake No No No! You do it all the time, because you always want to play. You LOVE to eat. You and Harper smack your lips and makes this “mmoop” sound when you are hungry. It cracks me up. Hadley, I did the Heimlich on you this month, I was passing a banana in front of you and you chomped down on it, getting a big bite as I moved it past your face. I did not know you were so fast. Your spitting up has gotten so much better. We started giving you an anti acid medicine that has helped A LOT. It taste horrible, you are a champ at taking medicine….unlike your sister.
Harper, you LOVE to be held especially at the end of the day. You will crawl into my lap and whimper until I pick you up. You raise your arms up when I say “so big” you always wave “hi” and “by” when we tell you too. You talk all the time in such a sweet high pitched voice. You are the “ring leader” in getting your sister to play with you through your cribs when it is time to take a nap. You girls will pull up onto the rails and face each other in your own crib. We can hear you talk and laugh in your cribs for over an hour during nap time. I watch the video monitor like it is a Television and laugh out loud. You still have some stranger danger…but getting better. We have a basket of diapers out living room. Your favorite thing to do is to pull all of the diapers out of the basket. You pull them out one at a time and throw them behind you. You probably do this 10 times a day:)
This age has brought on the challenge of trying to figure out how to hold you both when you crawl into my lap crying at the same time. I am getting pretty good at picking you both up and the same time and carrying you to a new location. I think this is my favorite age to far!
Capturing your picture is getting more challenging:)
Peek a Boo
