Happy 9 months old!!!

 

Happy 9 months old Lila, Carter and Madelyn!!!!

Monkey Madelyn (my new name for her) is climbing everything.  We lowered her crib and she tries to stand on the bumper pad and even her blankie so she can get just a little bit higher up.  Then her poor legs are so skinny that she slips right through the slates in the crib!  On the kitchen toy shown in the picture below she had the door open and somehow managed the climb up on the top and was laying vertical on top of the door.  Thank goodness I was standing there otherwise that would have been a far drop on her head.  And of course what does she do…smile!!!

Carter is trying SO hard to stand and he gets so mad when he can’t do it. He sits on the edge of the kitchen toy (where he is sitting below) and pulls and pulls on the sink with all of his strength but he just can’t do it.  When he does stand though he is taking some steps so I really think he is just going to skip crawling all together.  

Lila has started clinging to mommy…anytime I am on the floor she wants me to hold her for a minute and then she is ready to get down.  She has figured out how to put cheerios in her mouth…the first step to self feeding..whoo hoo!!!  And the girl loves to eat…she opens her mouth like a little bird, gets really excited by making grunting noises and just can’t be fed fast enough.  She is getting around really well and is into absolutely everything!!  

Our 9 month old babies!!!

 

 

Our favorite foods:

Any fruit especially bananas and apples, sweet potatoes, squash, and pumpkin apple.

I finally got them to eat avocados…just added some bananas (actually pretty tasty)!

They will all eat anything but you can tell which ones they really don’t like. Carter doesn’t really like anything green, Madelyn hates vegetables in general, and Lila of course will eat anything!