Laynie 7-9 months

I'm excited to say these last couple of months have not been nearly as eventful with hospital stays and such as months 5/6 were! My little wiggle worm hit a lot of milestones between 7-9 months so it's all fun, happy stuff!

Laynie turned 7 months old on February 25, 2014! She's in size 2 diapers and is still wearing mostly 3 month clothes.

She had been rocking on her knees for sometime between when she was 6-7 months but she gets so excited she ends up on her belly with her arms and legs kicking like crazy! It was the funniest thing to watch! Around early March, so at about 7 and a half months, she finally started moving a little. During Spring Break, she was officially a full blown crawler! She was all over the place! It has been a whole new experience for me because Rex never crawled. He was a booty scooter and even that took a little longer to get to. She has always been incredibly active, even in utero so I expected that she would progress a little quicker with her gross motor development than Rex did. Over spring break she also started pulling up to standing in her Laugh and Learn Car. She just loves that thing!

At 7 months, she started to become a little more emotional. If you take something away from her she cries. If I tell her NO! In a firm voice, she gets upset sometimes. Usually she just gives me her cute little smile and keeps doing what I said not to do. When she is fussy or upset she says "mama." I LOVE it! She is definitely a mama's girl! She loves her Daddy but she doesn't like to be taken away from her mommy.

She stared eating mum mums at 7 months and she LOVES them! Rex loves them too so I can't give Laynie one without giving Rex one. She has a 6 ounce bottle in the morning when she wakes, cereal mixed with 2 ounces of formula around 9:30 then she drinks the remaining 4 ounces of the bottle, 6 ounce bottle and food (usually a fruit) around noon, bottle at 3 and dinner  (veggies and fruit) at 6. She has a nighttime bottle with cereal around 8:30 and is down for the night. Her first tooth came in just before she turned 8 months!!

Laynie turned 8 months March 25 and is weighing about 16 pounds if I remember correctly. Her eating pattern is pretty much the same but we have moved up to stage 2 foods. For dinner she eats a meat/veggie combo along with either a fruit or vegetable and she typically eats the whole thing. The amount of formula she has varies. Sometimes she'll drink 4 ounces, sometimes she only drinks an ounce or two.

Laynie LOOOOVES to play Pat-a-cake! She has gotten to where every time she interacts with me, she claps her hands wanting to play/sing it. Even first thing in the morning when I get her out of her crib, she is ready to hear it! She also claps when she hears "Yay!!!!" She has started imitating more sounds, especially "uh-oh!" She drops things on purpose off of her tray and says "ah-ah." Ms. Lorena, one of Ms. Anna's helpers, has taught all of the kids a Mexican nursery rhyme called "Pinpon." At the beginning of the song, you point your finger to the palm of your other hand. Recently she started doing this, even without hearing the song or she will start clapping her hands with pat-a-cake then change to pointing to her palm. I didn't know for sure if she was pointing to her hand by default or because of the song. Ms. Anna confirmed that they had been singing it to her and that's where she picked it up! I love how interactive she's being and how she's picking up on songs and such! She loves to dance too!!  She will start bouncing around when she hears music on her toys. Maybe we will have another music baby on our hands!

This month she also got her second tooth! She wasn't fussy with either tooth coming in and Rex was the same way when all of his teeth came in. I never knew they were coming because they weren't fussy, which I am very thankful for!

She has started pulling up to standing in her crib so we need to lower it to the bottom level. She is still quite the wiggle worm and I'm sure that is something that will never change! When she becomes fussy while crawling around, she comes to me whiny saying "Mama!" until I pick her up. It's quite possible that we have our athlete in her. Anytime she is playing with a ball of any sort, she will go after it when it rolls around. I've heard stories of Corey doing this as a baby as well and we all know what an athlete he is! Before we ever even have kids, I always joked that we would have a boy who was calm, mellow and a musician like I was and we would have a girl who would be little Corey and be an athlete and a pistol as a teenager! We'll see if my thoughts prove correct!

We got our first puppy as a family during Laynie's 8th month! She is a lab/Weimaraner mix that we got from Ms. Anna. Corey is planning on training her to be a hunting dog but she will be our family dog as well, of course. Laynie has done really well with the puppy and Sadie is good with her for the most part too. She tries to nip at Laynie but we keep a close eye on them together.

She had her first Easter at 8 months! She got some mum mums and yogurt melts from the Easter Bunny. We went to mass in the morning where she was a total ham making faces with the people behind us. In the afternoon, we went to my Aunt Martha's to spend the day with family. The kids did an Easter egg hunt and had a blast! Rex had his first swim of the year with his cousin Olivia since Uncle Gilbert turned the heater on for the pool! It was a great Easter Sunday!

Finally at her 9 month appointment, She weighed 17 lbs (18th percentile), measured 27.6 inches long and had a head circumference of 48 cm (93 percentile)...Yes, I said 93rd percentile for her big noggin! She definitely looks like a Romero but her head size is ALLLL ROBINSON!!  :) just kidding! Love you, Poppa! She is finally fitting into 6 month clothes and is wearing size 3 diapers. She can still squeeze into size 2's but they're a little snug.

She loves laughing at her brother when he is being silly. He plays pretty well with her for the most part but is still working on sharing with his sister and not freaking out if she grabs something of his. She is still definitely a momma's girl! She gets so so excited to see me when I pick her up every day. I just love it!

I can't believe we are only 3 months away from planning my baby's 1st birthday party! It's crazy to me! I'm looking forward to a fun new month with my wiggles!