Month 9

Nora has changed so much this month. She is now mobile, and that has changed her and my life significantly. Now she is crawling all over the house and putting everything in her mouth. Today she got some leaves from one of the plants. Yesterday I found a sticker in her mouth. One of her favorite things to chew on is shoes! I have to watch her like a hawk. She is loving the mobility. She loves being able to move from room to room on her own.

Her personality is really starting to show, too. She is becoming more opinionated. I can tell that she is going to be just as stubborn and independent as her siblings She has started to really let me know when she wants something. She starts grunting and squealing and waving her arms around.

She has also really made a break through with eating. She has decided that she loves solid foods, but she doesn’t like baby food. She is just like Ian. Anything she can get in her mouth she loves–anything I put in her mouth she hates. I am struggling trying to get her to eat some healthy things. I have to remember to start planning ahead now when we are out–otherwise she ends up eating a steady diet of white bread pieces. She has been loving Cheerios and small bits of bread. I bought some freeze dried bananas, strawberries, and corn and she loves them all. One day this week, I left her sitting in her highchair after she ate. I wanted her to be contained while I went downstairs for a minute. I came back upstairs and she had fallen asleep in her high chair. It was adorable. I couldn’t help snapping some pictures.

Uh-Oh was Nora’s first real word and she said it this week. My mom has been working on it, and saying it too her over and over the last few weeks. This week, she had one particularly bad night. She woke up to nurse in the night and would not go back to sleep. I would get her to sleep, but every time I put her down she would cry. I brought her into our room. She still didn’t want to sleep. She was crawling all over us and she kept saying Uh-Oh. She says it so cute. It comes out sounding like UH-oooooh. I wanted her to sleep and she just wanted to keep saying Uh-Oh.

I can see her starting be less and less of a baby. It is bittersweet for me. I was happy for her, but I felt a pang of sadness the day that she started crawling. My little baby is slowly turning into a toddler, and before I know it she will be a little girl!