9-month check-in.

That's right. Ava is a whopping 9 months old. It's hard to believe that she's already spent more time outside breathing air than she spent inside me. The pregnancy seemed to go so slowly, but infancy has just blown by.



She's still a bit big for her age, but her growth is starting slow a bit, as babies do around this age. We bought a bigger car seat and we'll probably have to switch to it soon. Ava hasn't yet pulled herself up to sitting in her co-sleeper, though there's nothing stopping her. She can do it on the floor rather easily. So, we're shopping around for a crib. Next week I go back to work 4 days a week, so we're also looking for a Thursday-Friday care provider. It is not an easy process. There are lots of things going on these days.

In the two weeks following Christmas, Ava figured out how to:
- wave (at everything and everyone)
- clap (often after waving because she's so proud of herself for waving)
- play peekaboo (she holds the blanket up and down in front of her own face)
- pick up and eat solid food (with fingers, not utensils)
- notice her shadow
- crawl! (truly, on all fours, and she gets faster everyday)
- say lots of fun babbly things (dat, dot, dis, ath, ma, da, ba, ga, na and more)
- trill her R's (see video for clarification, it's hilarious)