9 months!

I want time to slow down but speed up all at the same time. With only 4 weeks left of school, I am so excited to get to the end so I can spend more time with my girl. However, she is growing so fast and learning so many new things, that I want her to slow down just a little, or just stay like this for a while. Here are some things about her at 9 months.

* She still does not have any teeth. We always think they are coming any day now, but nope, none yet.

* She started crawling May 4th. She would only go very short distances, and then the next few days she didn't do much crawling. Then May 8th and 9th, she really started going. Now she is starting to figure out that there are different rooms in the house that she can crawl to.

* When I tell her to say "ma ma" she immediately says "da da". No kidding. It happens every time.

* The sounds that she makes are "da da" "ba ba" "ya ya" and "pa". No "ma ma" yet. She also has a wide range of happy screams and noises that she makes when she is talking with people.

* She recognizes the following words: kitty cat, ball, jump (She loves her jumperoo and if we ask her if she wants to jump, she gets all giddy), Elmo (she loves her little Elmo doll), and bye bye.

* She waves hi and bye now. First she started with bye. She will open and close her little fingers and say "ba ba". This past Sunday she started waving hi to people at church.

*Her eating is different each day. Some days she will eat fruits and veggies for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and some days she wants nothing to do with solid food. We will ask the doctor about that but I'm sure he will tell me that is normal for babies this age.

*She loves my cell phone, I guess because it lights up when she pushes buttons. If she gets her hands on it, and we take it away, she will throw a fit!