almost 9 months

Lucy is almost nine months old so I thought it was about time I post an 8 month update.  Let's just pause for a moment and let the fact that my baby is almost 9 months old sink in..... 

What have we been up to lately?  Honestly I can't even really remember the last few weeks.  I came down with a horrible sinus infection that kicked my butt for about 2 weeks.  It feels like I'm still trying to play catch up from that one. I'm just thankful that Lucy never got sick.

Lucy is still sleeping through the night.  Occasionally she will wake up but on most occasions just needs to be repositioned or given her pacifier (only uses that to sleep) and she is back asleep. She is generally asleep by 8:00 pm and wakes up anywhere from 6:00-7:00am.  I nurse her in the morning before I take her to the sitter's and again before bed. I'm still pumping during the day and I have not had to supplement with formula.  Most nights I still have to pump again to have enough milk.  I still have no back up supply in the freezer, but I'm not as stressed out about it as I was before. I'm still trying to make as much of her food as possible.  When I was sick that is one thing that I feel behind on.  I had planned to make a bunch of food the weekend I got sick.  It was such a hard thing for me to go to the grocery store and buy premade baby food for her.  I felt like a failure of a mother.  I know, I know stop it already.  I was sick and exhausted and down on myself.  Tommy reassured me that she would be just fine if I didn't make all of her food.  Since then I feel like we have been struggling with her eating.  She very much prefers homemade food.  Some of the foods that she likes are fresh green beans, sweet potatoes, butternut squash, acorn squash, mangoes, peaches, pears, bananas, kiwis, plums and blueberries.  So far I have not been very successful at disguising chicken or any other form of meat enough so that she will eat it.  Maybe she has her momma's keen sense of smell and knows before it even touches her lips that it is in there.  She has become a pro at feeding herself Cheerios and puffs and really enjoys them.

Lucy is not crawling yet.  She gets where she wants to by rolling/flopping around.  She can go backwards.  When it comes to trying to go forward she just kicks her feet and flaps her little arms.  She has started to pull up on things.  We'll see what the next few weeks bring.  Today Tommy and I got rid of the coffee table in the living room.  It was a collector of junk (totally my fault) and took up way too much space.  Now we have lots more room on the floor for Lucy to play. 

I'm not really sure how much she weighs.  If I had to guess I would say around 18 lbs.  Her next appointment is February 15th so we'll see how close I am.  She is mostly wearing size 6-9 mo.  There are still a few 3-6 mo. shirts that I have not put away that fit just fine.  We are up to 2 totes of clothes that are too small!! 

Something that she has started doing that I'm not too fond of it pinching/hitting my face.  It seems to only be something she does to me.  Since she was tiny she has liked to play with my face.  Now she thinks its funny to grab my lips and pull.  I have tried several different ways of correcting this behavior but we have not gotten over it yet.  She laughs at me when I tell her "No!" 

Right before Christmas Lucy's first tooth finally made an appearance.  You can get a little glimpse of it in the picture below.  She is currently working on the one right next to it.

I think that pretty much sums up the last month!

*Kimberly took the picture at the top of this post.  Love it.