I’m happy and sad to say that my sweet little babie’s growing up and turning in to my little toddler. She’s had a busy couple of weeks. She’s just been on a developmental growing streak and seems to be learning new things and getting so much better at them every day. She had a few little toys that she can stand at and push them around to walk that at first, she was so terrified of she wouldn’t touch them. Now, we can’t get her away from them. She’s gotten so steady on them, I don’t quite feel the need to follow right behind her and hold on to her shirt in case she falls all the time. I’m actually comfortable enough to take a few steps back and let her run and play. Well, I guess she got a little to good because last week, she took her first steps by herself and has made it a few steps further every day since. She has such a strong desire to walk on her own for only being 9 months old and is getting it down quickly, before I know it, she’ll want to walk every where and won’t let me carry her anymore. I’m so proud of her that she’s learned how at such a young age, but sad to see her grow up and become more independent every day.
She also finally started crawling the right way a couple of weeks ago. Before then, she could get up on her hand and knees, but refused to move. She’d sit there and rock back and forth, then plop on her belly and army crawl when she was ready to move. Either that or she’d do what we like to call her ‘baby handstand’ and occasionally walk and move like that. She is now getting in to everything, including getting lost in our closet, under our beds, and her favorite rooms, the bathroom and kitchen. I am tryinig to make it a habit to close every door so she can’t hide or crawl around in our bathrooms, gross.
She also got her 1st tooth finally. It broke through this last week, and I must say, she was still a pretty good baby considering. She was just a bit more tired than usual and a little sad. Not so much cranky, just sad. She didn’t really want people she didn’t know and wasn’t as playful as usual, but she was still just as sweet as she can be. She seems to be about back to her usual self now, just a little tired which I don’t mind. Just means more naps, ha. I’m afraid to see what she eats with teeth considering how much and how well she eats without them.
Just a couple of pictures of Mia doing her baby handstand.
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