9 Months!

This is going to be a double duty post… I’ll be giving Mallory’s nine month stats and you’ll also be able to see my new spare room that I worked on this weekend.

Mallory at 9 months.  Where do I begin?  Mallory is a little spitfire.  She is full of sass and energy.  Loves to stand!  Does not like to lay down unless she is in her crib.  So that whole crawling thing… not happening yet.  Not even attempting to crawl!  Doesn’t even get up on her hands or knees!  One night Jesse and I tried to teach her and she just flopped on her belly and cried until we stood her up.  I’m starting to come to terms that she is 9 months and not crawling!  This way I can still leave her sitting in the living room and run around the house and not worry what she is getting in to.

Teething?  Hahahaha!  No!  I’m changing a bazillion (I’m not lying on this… a bazillion!) dirty diapers a day.  This is not normal for her – so I thought, “ah, there coming!”  Then for a few days I actually saw some white peeking and now I see nothing.  BUT I am still changing a bazillion dirty diapers!  To top it off… they were out of my normal wipes that I use, that I had to buy a different kind and I went with the “soothing cucumber” kind.  *gag*  Don’t buy them!  Poop and cucumber!!  *gag*  Thank goodness I’m flying threw them.

She does a lot with her left hand.  I’m sure it is too early to really tell, but we have noticed she tends to use that hand more then the right.

Mastered the sippy cup.  We don’t give it to every time… we use it as a special treat and we put juice in it for her.  She wastes no time when she gets that special treat either – she chugs it right down.

Self feeding.  I just started giving her little puffs, yogurt melts, and cheese bits for her to pick up and eat.  At first she would pick it up with her left hand and then transfer it to her right hand and then put it in her mouth.  By the time it got to her mouth she had dropped it a few times.  Now, she has it down and they get right to her mouth.  Watching her “chew” is hilarious!  She chews with her tongue… and her tongue sticks out of her mouth.

Mama!  She says mama!!  I know she doesn’t know what she is saying but I squealed and cheered the first time she said it.  Now she says it all the time.  My Mom tells me that the next child will be a girl.  If your baby says mama first the next baby is a girl… if your baby says dada first the next baby will be a boy.  I was talking to a friend on Sunday (who has 4 boys) and they all said dada first!!

Mallory is taking two naps a day.  An hour in the morning and then about two hours in the afternoon.  We had to bump up her bedtime because she was trying to make a nest at night… so we put her to bed between 7:30 and 8.

She is not a morning person.  She wants to go back to bed after breakfast… and she would if I let her, but I try to keep her awake for a couple hours.

I started painting my spare room on Saturday and I love it.  I’m fighting everything in me to NOT move into it.  It is so pretty and inviting and that bed looks so snuggly.  That pillow there… was $50!!  Who would pay $50 for that pillow?  I got it for $9… plus I got another 30% off of that!  Gotta love Kohls for deals like that!  I still have more painting to do and then a dresser and make-up table to refinish… but I had to put the bed together!  Not that we ever have visitors… but this might give some of you the itch to come to Wisconsin!!  No?  Oh come on!  Wisconsin is lots of fun!  : )