9 months and a new stuff!

Well, just  a quick check in. Although we are not crawling yet, still jetting all over the place by the "roll-and-pivot" method, I'm sure the day is coming soon! However, this momma just discovered our first tooth! We've been expecting that tooth "any day" now since the prodigious drooling started, but that tooth emerged today and we couldn't be more excited!

8 months in Review

We just had our 9 month check up. Month 8 was full of growth, apparently, as Lola has grown a full 3 and a half inches since our 6 month visit! We can really tell it in the way her clothes fit, and she seems to have a really good appitite these days. I'm still on the "make your own baby food" kick. Mostly because I want to control what we put in her little growing body, but have also come to discover that it is SO much cheaper to make it than to buy the jar food. I've found that Costco has a really nice selection of frozen organic fruits and veggies, some of which we were already eating ourselves, but I looked a little closer at the selection and have been able to stock up. For example, a jar of organic food is a little more than $1/jar, a BAG of organic, Costco sized, veggies is $7.  So far, since the first round of green beans and peas, we haven't found anything that she doesn't like (oh, and avacados, no go on those). Even the second batch of peas and green beans she liked. But I discovered she LOVES peaches and cherries. I guage the level of "like" on how much food is on the bib when we are done eating. I can reuse the cherry and peach bibs at another feeding! I like the peaches and cherries as well, so it's a win-win!
No teeth yet, though the drooling continues. She is losing her giftedness for drooling. The wetness is subsiding, but not gone.  Who knows when those teeth will start to come in, and she wouldn't give the pediatrician the chance to look. It was a weird. She didn't have a problem with the nurse drawing blood or giving her a shot, however when the pediatrician was in there, trying to look in her mouth, her ears or eyes, she threw a fit. And she is such a stong little thing, the doc couldn't examine how good her hips were. "She is strong and determined." I'd have to agree!

Lola and I took a trip to Las Cruces all by ourselves a couple of weeks ago. She did really good, especially considering I started the trip driving 50 miles out of the way. Don't people usually have to leave their home towns before they get lost? Yes, this was PRIOR to getting out of town! It was a nice weekend, in spite of the fact the trip was for me to visit the dentist! Gamma's friend and hair dresser convinced me to let her cut Lola's hair. I'm thinking that the nerve endings are still attached to the hair at 8 months old, cause when the hair was snipped, the tears started coming, and coming. Not that she has a lot of hair to cut, but she has a lot more than she had! I was worried that she would be bald till she was 5 and people still thought she is a boy! (we can be decked out in fluff as well as a hat with a big bow, and get a, "he's so cute!") So I'm glad that hair is growing in so nicely!
Momma and Daddy have both had birthdays since last we posted. Daddy turned 41, and me, I decided to turn 34 again. :)
Other firsts this past month have been holding her own bottle, drinking from the sippy cup and devouring the Baby Mum Mums. She's also quite the little chatter box, and still growling. The doc said that's a normal part of speech development, which made me feel better!
The time is flying by. I really can't believe how much she is growing and changing and I am so thankful to have been blessed to be part of this little girl's life!