Laynie is 9 Months Old

Laynie is actually 9.5 months old, but I took these photos on her 9 month birthday and I will try to remember what she was doing as of 2 weeks ago. :)

 This girl is on the move

and pulling up

 

Wearing 9-12 months clothes and size 3 diapers
Length = below percentile 5 (she is so short!!)
Weight = between percentile 10 and 25  (and little like her big sister was)
Head Circumference = between percentile 10 and 25

crawling and pulling up!

Started sleeping through the night!!  She wakes up around 6:30am, so we will have to work on extending that a little, but I'm glad she finally dropped the middle of the night feeding (update...she stopped sleeping through the night.  She isn't eating at night, but still wanting some bonding time with me between 4am-6am.  The doctor said to make her cry, so I guess we will do that this weekend)

Still growling and squealing very LOUD
Loves to swing outside

Babbles all the time.  I SWEAR she said "Momma" Mother's Day weekend.  She is very attached to me right now.  I left the room and she said "Momma"...twice.  But hasn't said it since.  She probably just got lucky.

Gets SO EXCITED when Momma or Dada walk into the room

Loves to hold my hair.  She holds it when she is nursing and holds it when I am holding her (left thumb in her mouth and right hand holding Momma's hair.  How is that for security?)

Loves to bounce in the jumparoo

Eats baby food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Experimenting with Gerber puffs and a sippy cup

Will eat a bananas, strawberries, and grapes in her mesh feeder

Loves watching Baby Einstein...just the ocean one (just like sister)

Loves her bed and will hardly sleep anywhere else

We still read a book to her every night.  She doesn't try to eat it as much and acts interested

LOVES her big sister.  Her big sister is not such a fan of Laynie.
Has one tooth!
Started taking a bath with Marlee every night.  They have done so well in the bath together

We love Laynie to pieces and love watching her develop a little personality.  I don't think she is going to be near as shy as we once thought. ;)

Princesses, Boats, and Singing

Just a little bit of this and that:

We went to princess night at Chick-fil-A last week.  Although it was super crowded and freezing cold, Marlee had an absolute blast.  She got to ride in a carriage with a princess!  She was so excited to see the horses and ride in the carriage.  James was going to ride with her, but they said parents weren't allowed.  We braced ourselves for a public meltdown, but she just hoped right up there and sat right next to the princess.  She grinned the entire ride and when she got off, she said "That was FUN!!"

We took the boat out for a ride last weekend.  The water was too cold for swimming, but Marlee loved the boat ride.  She told all of her friends about it at school and keeps asking if we can go on the boat. We sure hope the girls love the lake as much as we do.  We ate lunch at the marina afterwards and then went to the playground for a bit.  The boat ride wore Laynie out.  She slept through lunch.

 Marlee LOVES to sing.  We have a CD in the car with 100 kid's songs on it and she requests it every time we are in the car.  She sings all day long.  Her current favorite is "America"

Laynie loves it when I sing to her.  We are just one big singing family!

A few things Marlee says that I don't want to forget:

"I want to get some milk and watch Dora right now." - This is upon waking up in the morning or after nap or before bed

"I missed it." - This goes for anything that she can't find

"You break my heart", accompanied with a tap of the heart. - Anytime she gets in trouble and we make her cry

"I wanna go super high." - Swinging.  She loves to go fast.

And just because I love this video...here is Marlee with our babysitter.  She cracks me up!

Big Girl

My baby girl is getting so big!!!  I found her like this the other day after her nap (sitting on her knees).

She is trying so hard to pull up.  I even caught her practicing in the wee hours of the morning the other night.

She is also really close to crawling.  She will get on her hands and knees, rock, and then take a couple of steps forward...and then back up and sit down again.

When she isn't trying to pull up or crawl, she spends the remainder of her free time like this

We sure do love that little thumb sucker!!

Easter 2014 and the Weekend after

We spent the weekend of Easter at Ma & Pa's house.  Marlee slept in really late on Easter Sunday so we had to let her look at her basket real quick before heading to church.  She loved it!

 After church, we headed to see Memaw Polly (although I don't have any pictures to prove it) and then went over to Jami's for lunch.  I forgot my camera at home, so we just have a few that I took with my phone.  Laynie spent the majority of her time at Jami's just hanging out on a blanket outside.

And Marlee spent the majority of her time blowing bubbles.

We were able to pry her away for the bubbles long enough to hunt just a couple of eggs.

After Jami's, we headed to see Papaw and Marlee got more bubbles in her Easter basket at Memaw & Papaw's house.

We had a very long day in Fort Smith with no nap.  That always makes for a fun trip home and an extra fun evening at home. ;)

 Memaw was in Bernie Easter weekend, so we went back down the next weekend to spend some quality time with Memaw & Papaw.  Marlee had so much fun blowing more bubbles and playing at the park.  Laynie was there too, sleeping in my carrier. ;)

We are so blessed to live so close to both of our parents.  It is so wonderful to watch our babies build a relationship with them.