Nine months

Happy belated 9 months Emeline! This is a little late since we were on vacation on December 29th.

Let me just say that I had a lot of expectations about what 9 months would look like for Emeline. Since I knew we would be traveling for Christmas, I kept trying to plan what sorts of things we would need to take with us, based on what I thought Emeline would be like at 9 months. I thought she'd for sure be crawling, probably be sleeping through the night regularly, and falling asleep by herself. Yes...most of my expectations were about sleep. But of course, life with a baby is not what you expect. And just cause she's not doing what I expect doesn't make her any less amazing. She's surprised me a lot.

So we haven't seen crawling yet, but by the looks of things, she might skip it all together. She's pulling herself up on just about anything she can get her hands on, and she'll shimmy around furniture. She'll take steps from place to place holding on to your fingers, and even walks with her little push wagon. She's also got the cute new trick of clapping! It's really sweet. She does it at the most opportune moments. 

Emeline is also much more wary around new people and likes to stay close to mom and dad. Vacationing threw her for a loop, but by the end, she was excited to be in new places (restaurants are especially fun!) and interested in new people. She still seems pretty fearless of any physical challenge...swimming, walking, diving from high places...lol. Today's photo shoot was cut short cause of all the attempts at diving off the couch. And it was much hard to get one of her actually next to the sheep and smiling and looking at the camera. Here are some outtakes, although even the one for the series wasn't as good as usual. You can see her diving attempts as well as the unhappy faces because I wanted to take pictures of her instead of picking her up.

Nine months. 21 lbs 5 oz, 27.5 inches long.