Beth at 9 months

Our baby Bethany is nine months old. She is crawling and climbing everywhere. I usually am her favorite thing to climb. In the last week or two her bottom two front teeth have cut through so her all gummy smile will be going away. I think her top teeth are working on coming too because she has had a fever mostly the past week and been a bit of a monster. ... Okay she has been a monster with me around. If I am out of sight she is pretty much perfect. It's a rather tiring and patience testing phase. 

Friday we go to her check up to find out her stats. Everyone tells me she is so small and that may be. She likes to eat and is really wanting to feed herself real food these days. She likes nursing a lot right now but gets distracted easy. She also likes to do something with her hands at the same time, which currently is scratching and pinching my chest. Those dang razor sharp baby nails.

 Mostly Beth has just always wanted to go and do the things all the big people around her are doing. She spends most of her calories doing that so her cousin, Ridgge, that is two months and a week younger than her out weighs her by a few pounds.

He may out weigh her but right now she has the upper hand on mobility, which he doesn't much like. 

 

She is not walking yet but is closer every day. She cruises around all the furnature and can balance for ten seconds or more by herself before setting down. 

She was a great sleeper when she was smaller but during a growth suet or something that changed. We are working on getting it back though because I really like sleep. 

Over all she is a really good and happy baby and we are so happy she joined our family months ago. They seem to have been the fastest months of my life but maybe I have said that with all my kids? The days seem long but the months seem to be flying by with them. She thinks this is a fun place to be. 

Sometimes she lets Evelyn or Roberta hold her for a bit, usually she is too busy though. 

Here dhe decided she needed to stop nursing to tell me something very important, and she was probably playing with my nipple or scratching me with her razor fingernail at the same time. 

She likes to bear crawl places but sometimes her head must get heavy or she just needs to look at where she has been. She often does this and I think it is rather cute.