Instant Mood Changer

We love the park. It's an instant mood changer, and an instant mood changer is much appreciated when dealing with a teething (or maybe just cranky?) baby.

Lately

Natalie was super excited to see Cora at Alex's birthday party last weekend. Their play time was full of grabbing faces and stealing toys.

Watermelon just might be her new favorite food.

So many new teeth! Hopefully this is at least part of the reason for our lack of sleep lately.

You know you're old when a 6:00 pm solo hair appointment is your idea of a relaxing vacation and when said hair appointment inspires an impromptu photo shoot because it's the first time your hair has actually been fixed in months.

9 Months

Happy nine months, little Natalie. How you keep getting sweeter is beyond me.

At nine months old Natalie:

• weighs 20 pounds, 13 ounces (80th percentile) and is 29 inches long (92nd percentile).
• prefers walking to crawling. And she prefers to be carrying something while walking. The bigger and more awkward, the better.
• loves bananas, grapes, blueberries, cheese, and yogurt. She doesn't eat baby food very well anymore, so we've been having fun giving her table food. 
• likes to read books. Up until now she wouldn't sit still long enough to listen to a story, but now she cuddles up for books. So sweet.
• gives kisses, but she's pretty selective about who gets a kiss and when.
• blows raspberries on my shoulders and legs.
• has five teeth that you can see and seven teeth that you can feel. She has two on the top that have poked through but just barely.
• has the sweetest, most playful personality.

2.1 Teeth

These may be some of the last pictures of Natalie's two-toothed smile. She has a third bottom tooth coming in that you might be able to see if you look really really closely.

No teeth in these last couple pictures. Just cute faces.