Life Unexpected: Our Journey to a Family: 9 Months!

This past month has been a blur! Our baby is now nine months old and into EVERYTHING!!

Happy 9 Months Wren Danielle <3

DEVELOPMENT
At Wren's nine month appointment, which we did a few weeks early because we were moving, she weighed 19 lb. 7oz. I am sure it is more by now though! She is 27 1/4in long. She is in the 77% for weight and the 49% for height! She went through a growth spurt this month and was eating a LOT!! She wanted food all the time and baby food is no good anymore she wants the real stuff :) She loves pretty much any food that we have tried so far except bananas! She has been moving like crazy and as I said before gets into everything! She pulls herself up on everything and if she can climb on it she will! She got herself stuck on a second flight of stairs recently and we didn't even know she could climb stairs! Thankfully she cried and we got to her before she fell down. We will have to watch her more closely when she is by stairs now! Our new house doesn't have any stairs which is really nice but the house we work at and live at when "on-duty" does have stairs and thats where we found out she knows how to climb them! Wren has been breaking her two top front teeth through the past few weeks so it has make for some fussy days but I think we are finally at the end of those two teeth popping through and she is getting to be more happy! She now has her two top and two bottom front teeth. Wren has been standing some now as well. At first she didn't realize that she could bend her knees to sit down so she would get this half scared half concentrating look on her face as she tried to balance and stay up. Then she learned she can just bend her knees so now she won't stand up anymore without holding onto something :( She walks behind her walker toy and along couches or anything she can hold onto though so she is learning! It is so crazy how big she is getting! Her hair and teeth and being able to stand and starting to walk holding onto things makes her seem so old especially when I look at old pictures of when she was newborn to three or four months! I am so excited to say that she had 0 ear infections this past month!! YAY!! Hopefully the ears will be good for the summer now! She does have a cold/cough but nothing major has come from it so far.

The stairs Wren decided to climb and then got stuck on! She was on the

second flight when we found her!

Little climber! Such a big girl!

Loving them noodles!

PERSONALITY
Wren's personality hasn't changed much. She still loves attention and loves to squeal and make lots of noise! She has learned to be a little stinker and she will laugh sometimes when she knows she is doing something we don't want her to! We are also learning that she isn't scared of much. If the vacuum is on she is trying to grab it or crawl on it, she climbed the stairs (really big ones by the way), if she is on our bed she will go right to the edge and isn't scared one bit. There was also a huge dog at the bank here in Indiana and she wasn't scared one bit to have that dog right in her face and pet it. She can also be very stubborn. When it comes to baby food and she has had enough its nearly impossible to get her to eat anymore! She will purse her lips and spit and cry until we finally just give up! I guess she knows when she has had enough! She also does this if we try to give her her paci and she doesn't want it at the moment!

So intrigued by the vacuum cleaner! I guess i don't use it enough :o

THINGS WREN LOVES
Wren loves to be outside! Whenever we go outside and its a little windy she gets so excited to have the wind blow in her face. She likes to play in the grass as well which can be a challenge because she also eats everything she finds. She really enjoys Myli as well and they play together outside and inside. Unfortunately she loves Myli's dog food and water bowl as well! At our new house we have a front load washer and Wren thinks it is great to watch it going. Easy entertainment :) She also loves the dishwasher! As soon as I open it she crawls right over helps herself to whatever she can reach!

Enjoying the sunshine! My little dish helper

Fun in the grass

Playing with her cousins

Soaking up the sun & watching daddy work in the yard

Love that washing machine! So entertaining :)

THINGS WREN HATES
Wren hates being left alone in a room. She did have lots of babysitters this past month while we packed and moved and so I am sure she was plenty spoiled and that could be part of it but she never really had liked to be left alone playing. At our new house in Indiana we have been learning that her being silent in a room by herself usually means she is getting into trouble! Once we found her playing in the paint tray while we were painting the kitchen, another time she was digging in Myli's dog bowls, and another time she was unrolling all the toilet paper and playing in the toilet water! We have had a crash course in what we can an cannot leave laying around or open etc. She also loves to dig through cupboards and filing cabinets we have learned.

9 month old painter for hire ;) Thankfully we caught her before she did any damage!

FUN TINGS WE DID THIS MONTH
We moved!! I don't think I would really consider this fun but that pretty well consumed our entire month between packing and getting everything cancelled, switched over, saying goodbyes, moving, unpacking, starting training for our new job etc. More to come about how the move went and the new job in another post! Wren has been a trooper. Although we have had some rough days and some fussy nights she has done well for the big change that we are all going through in moving to Indiana. It will be really nice thought to get settled into a routine here!

Helping mommy pack and playing in the couch fort!

Our last Sunday in Forrest for church... Helping daddy take the crib apart to move!

Spoiled by grandma as everyone was loading all our stuff on moving day!

Loves to help! She was on paper clean up after unpacking. (Maybe more like paper playing!)

Getting to know our new neighbors and co-workers and their families! All these boys in the neighborhood. At least she will have lots of buddies to protect her :)

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