9 Months Old

Another month gone by and as with every other thus far, this age is our favorite stage :)

Her 9-month appointment went great! The doctor said she was impressed with both Ellie's physical and social skills as she waved and babbled and explored every inch of the room. She measured at 27 3/4 inches long and 17,6 lbs.

MOBILE--- About a week after Ellie turned 8 months old, she was very motivated to play with her toy teapot and crawled! Both mommy and daddy got to witness the milestone, which made it even sweeter! Like most things, when she figured it out, she was all in and is now crawling allover the house and exploring every inch of our home. Our pup Bailey has recently become her favorite 'toy' to chase after. Thank goodness Ellie shares enough of her meals so Bailey tolerates her ;)
Just this last week, our little lady began pulling up on everything within reach! She wants us to help her walk across the room and has begun pushing her activity table across the room on her own. There's no stopping our busy little lady now!

Schedule Change--- Our 3-a-day nursing didn't work out as well as I'd hoped. Elizabeth began to eat a LOT at lunch (when we'd cut out the noon 'bottle'), so I could tell she was quite hungry. She also stopped drinking as much milk at each feeding, so that confirmed the need for more at some point; thus, we're back to 4 'bottles' per day. She nurses at roughly 8--12--4--8 and we do solids at about 9---1---6. She seems less and less interested in nursing each day. We're down to about 5 minutes total. We've tested it out with a bottle and she only seems to take about 3-4 ounces from those. To make up for this, we've started adding more milk to her oatmeal for breakfast and giving her milk in her sippy throughout the day.

SIPPY CUP---She LOVES her sippy cup! Our big girl would rather drink out of our water bottles than anything else though so we've just ordered her a straw sippy cup. She's only had this a couple days but so far, seems to be confused with the difference in her own cups. She has mastered the straw from our cups but she still tries to tip up her own straw sippy. I have no doubt she'll have them figured out in no time.