9 Months Old!

Sorry to be MIA for so long. I'm still feeling torn as to whether or not to continue to blog. In a way I miss it, but then again, I barely have time to think about blogging. Maybe I should focus on being photo heavy with updates in pictures more than words.

She's certainly changed since my last post in November. Here's a current picture. I'm thinking maybe I'll go back and add a few postdated entries just to get more stuff out there. I always liked going back and seeing where we were at a certain time.

Today we had her 9 month check-up and she's doing really good! She's been crawling for a little over a month and pulls herself to a stand on almost everything. She likes to cruise along...I'm sure she'll be walking in no time! She's still my little peanut, that's for sure.

• Height - 27 1/4" 25-50%
• Weight - 15lbs 10.5oz 5-10%
• Head size - 45.8 cm 90%

Well, That's Different!

This kid is hilarious. I don't know how she does it, but every now and then she pulls out one of these new tricks and has us laughing and laughing. I'm pretty sure neither of us taught her this one since neither of us can repeat it. Thing is with these noises that she does, she seems to only do them for a couple of days, and then moves on to something new. If she starts doing something new, we have to catch it early.

For a few days, this is what she was doing after she had a bottle. I wish the video was clearer, but it was bedtime so the room was only dimly lit and her white noise was already turned on.



I have no idea how she made the connection that this action was even possible let alone as funny as we found it. When she drinks a bottle, she cups her tongue like a U around the bottle nipple while she's sucking. This is something that breastfed babies do, so it seems that she still has that skill even though we haven't really nursed since July.

5 Months Old

This kid just amazes me. I've been struggling to get some decent pictures of her lately so I didn't really have high expectations that her 5 month pictures would turn out very well. I figured we'd have to try at least two different "sessions" with her to get anything workable. Nah! She nailed it on the first attempt. And she was in such a good mood. I am very pleased with how these turned out.

Here are a few of my favorites.

Someone has found her voice

This is pretty funny. Over and over and over. The tongue just cracks me up!

Baptism Day

For a while now we've been trying to figure out what to do as far as a baptism goes. We don't belong to a church, but we really felt it was important to have Megan baptized. When we got married, we hired a minister who came to our site to perform the ceremony. It felt like the right thing to do to contact him and see if he'd perform the baptism. When we called him, he said he often gets requests from couples he's married to baptize their children. With that, the decision was made to travel to his home church to have the ceremony performed. It would be a private service, on a Saturday morning.

Here are some photos from the service:

And more photos of Megan in her beautiful baptismal gown:

The dress was just beautiful. It's too bad there isn't reason to dress her up in it a few more times before she outgrows the dress.

What'cha Doing?

At the very beginning you can hear me asking her "What'cha Doing?" She goes on the tell me all about her day.

Megan's Big Day

Look closely. What do you see?

That's right. Megan got her ears pierced today. I have to say she did really well. Definitely better than when she got her shots. She cried, but it wasn't nearly as bad and didn't last nearly as long.

Here she was just before getting them pierced.  Oh yeah, did I mention she's teething and actually taking a pacifier now?  Only took four months to get her to keep one in her mouth for any length of time.  Must feel good on her sore gums.

On the count of 3.  1....2....3!

All done!

It's only been a few hours, but so far they don't seem to be bothering her.  She hasn't been tugging at them or anything.  Now mom & dad are responsible for cleaning and twisting the earrings three times a day for 8 weeks.