Rachel is 9 Months Old

I can't believe our little Rachel is 9 months old! This last month we have started sign language, listened to her constant cheerful babble and enjoyed seeing her bounce on her knees and begin to find toys in every day objects. Here are a few random and fun things about Rachel...

She absolutely loves all paper products (including wipes, diapers, scrap paper, paper towels, playing cards etc.)

As I mentioned above she talks A LOT! She has imitated several sounds and words this month including "yucky", "yeah" and "daddy". Her favorite "word" is daddy. She almost uses it correctly and I'm sure in a month or two I'll be officially marking it down as her first word!

Her favorite food is anything she can feed to herself including bread, cheerios and cheese!

She also loves to sit on her knees and bounce.

She is starting to wave by moving her whole arm in a crazy sort of way. Its her way of saying "hey, look at me over here!".

Her curiosity is starting to get the best of her as she has found the joys of kitchen cupboards, and drawers and the danger of cords under our computer desk. I'm looking out for her!

A big "project" we've been working on this month has been sleep. She had not responded to any sleep method I'd tried and was getting worse and worse so I found another method online and its been working great! We are still working towards sleeping through the night but she has made BIG progress in just a few short weeks!

She finally got a front top tooth a couple of days ago.

She is much more cautious than Nick. For example, she will crawl like a speedy spider all through the house and the stop right at the edge of our sunken living room and then look up at me or wait for me to help.