Watch Natalie Grow - 9 months

She is 3/4 of the way to being 1 year old. I cannot believe it. Watching her grow and do things gives me such joy.  We are truly blessed to have a little girl in our family. Although, I don't know really how to dress her for winter. This girl will not keep socks on. How am I suppose to keep her feet warm?  Around the house, she can wear her leg warmers that my friend Sasha made (check her etsy shop out) but she can't really wear these every day out and about.  The stress of having and dressing a girl and I know it will only get worse as she gets older.

Speaking of stress, Miss Natalie, you have caused me a lot of stress and restless nights this month.  For whatever reason, you go on these binges were you wake up screaming and stay awake for 2 hours at a time.  When I try to lay you down, thinking you are asleep, you wake up screaming again. I hope you don't make it a habit.

At 9 months, she has finally discovered how to really crawl.  I think she loves her new found freedom and is really proud of her accomplishments.  She has started blowing raspberries.  She still eats around 22-26 oz a day and meals 3 times a day.  We have tried puffs a few times, but she still gags on them.  At her 9 month check up, Dr. L proposed a swallow study to see what's going on, but decided to wait it out and see how she is doing at 1 year.  She is still spitting up occasionally and still takes her meds for acid reflux.  She sleeps usually from 8:00 til about 4:00 on a good night and then back to sleep after she hits the bottle.  However there are those nights that she may wake up around 12:00 or 1:00am.  She has grown and Dr. L was proud of her progress.   She weighs 16lbs 13oz (18th %) and is 27 inches (47th%).
At this same age, Dylan was 15th% in weight and 77th% in height.  She is right on track....yep, that's us, we make small hairy babies with big noggins.  The bigger the brain we say :)