9 Months!

I can't believe our "little" Anna is nine months old today!

She can...

Crawl like a pro
Cruise around the furniture
Sit down from a stand
Babble (We haven't gotten another "honest" 'bye bye' out of her yet)
Put herself to sleep (with a few minutes of crying) most of the time if she doesn't fall asleep nursing
Drink from a sippy cup (although she still spits out more than she ends up drinking)
Eat Cheerios, Goldfish and other crunchy (and not really healthy) snacks-to be like her big sissy!

She loves to watch Adele-most of Anna's laughing is in response to something (ANYTHING!) Adele does! She loves when Adele crawls around on the floor with her, espeically! Also-a new game our neighbor "taught" her was peek-a-boo under the kitchen table-Anna gets laughing so hard when Adele "plays" it that she "rocks" her chair around the kitchen!

She consistently takes two naps a day. They still range from 30 minutes to 2 hours, with no particular rhyme or reason. She wakes up several times at night still, but I'm trying not to complain, because somehow she has already turned 9 months old on me, which means that my "snuggle in the middle of the night" time is getting limited! She still goes to bed between 6:30 and 7:30 on most nights. Last night I took both girls to the Y (By myself!) and she didn't go to bed until 8. She was only up once (I think...) around 5:00, and got up for the day sometime after 7:30, so that was encouraging!

She has ridden rides at Chuck E Cheese and Ben and Ari's ("New" Chuck E Cheese, if you ask Adele) and would do just about anything to keep up with that big sister of hers!

Happy Birthday, baby Anna Kate! We love you more each day!