These pictures were taken about a week after Finley's 9 month milestone. The start of summer, a trip to Pennsylvania, a visit from the Reeves grandparents and big sister's 3rd birthday kept us pretty busy this month. I promise a longer update with her 10 month pictures but here are the highlights.
- Finley's personality continues to develop and she has really become a character
- She is such a happy baby - it is one of the main comments we hear about her
- At 9 months she had just started army crawling. She definitely used rolling and army crawling to get where she wanted to go (which is usually to her sister's toys).
- She still looks a lot like Harper, but is definitely forming her own look
- She is a mommy's girl and doesn't like to be with anyone else if I am in the room
- She LOVES her purple hippo lovey and her binky
- She mastered afternoon naps (several months before her sister did when she was a baby). She usually goes down when Harper does and sleeps anywhere from 1 - 3 hours
- She is a great nighttime sleeper (with few exceptions). She goes to bed around 6:30 for 11-12 hours. (We are still tinkering with her bed time to try and get her to sleep later in the morning. Mommy doesn't like being awakened in the 5 o'clock hour, even for this smiling face. Unfortunately it isn't as easy as simply putting her down later - that just makes her get up earlier.)
- Despite still being small for her age, she looks like a chunky monkey to us (since she has filled out so much from her previous size).gg
- Her stats from her 9 month appointment were: 17lbs 4 oz (20th percentile!!), 26 and 1/4 inches (10 percentile), 49 percentile for head circumference).
