9 month check up

Kathryn had her nine month check up this morning. She is now 29 3/4" tall (97%) and 18 lbs 4 oz (48%). Yep I said 48%. At 6 months she was in the 75%, so they are concerned that she isn't gaining enough weight. She will go back in 6 weeks for a weight check. They aren't that concern since she nurses, and say it is common for breastfed babies to slow the weight gain as they eat more solid food or it could be genetics. I'll have to compare it to where Eric & I were at that age.

She has learned a few new things in the past few weeks. This past weekend she picked up on clapping. We can now say "Yay Kathryn!" and she will clap for us.

The scary thing she started doing while we were on vacation is letting go while she is standing. At first she may have stood for a second maybe two at the most, but last night it had to be a good four seconds before she plopped down. I can tell it won't be long before she is running around here.

It sounds like she is actually trying to talk to you now. I really think she said, or attempted to say "Daddy" the other night. She likes to try to say "uh-oh", but it comes out "uh-uh".

She is responding to laughter on the tv now. We were watching Sesame Street yesterday and Elmo started laughing and Kathryn turned to me and laughed. It was quite cute.

She is also lovin' on her stuffed animals, mainly the small ones right now. She has a monkey (I think it was actually mine in college) that she will give some lovin' too.... translation: she holds it close to her chest and smiles.

We have her to sleeping almost through the night again. She is getting up around 2 to eat. I'm still working on that one. But I'll take from 2 to 8! It still gives me time to get up before her and get some coffee and cereal in me.

She is eating a lot better...

We had 9 month pictures done as it was so close to Easter. I did not buy the disk this time, but I scanned in one of the pictures so everyone could see the beautiful dress that a friend of my Mom's (Aunt Virginia) made for Kathryn.

I said in an earlier post I would try to get a video of her voice swings (yes I know there is a big word for that, but I'm not going to attempt to pretend I know how to spell it.). Well Eric got it on video because he's that good.

update: I forgot her favorite new thing... lightswitches!! She will flip a switch to the "off" position with one finger! We have a lot of three-way switches so sometimes she is turning them on. But she will reach for a switch as we walk by.