9 Months Old

At 9 months old, Miss Riley weighs in at 16 lbs 10 oz and is 27 inches tall, in approximately the 25th percentile for both weight and height. More importantly, she is quite the little mover! Once she learned to pull up on things she immediately graduated to cruising all over the house, using whatever she can get her hands on to help her along - furniture, toys, Ski ski, Mom or Dad's hands, or Mom's hair. She has a toy walker, and learned very quickly how to use it to get from place to place as well - and is so darn proud of herself when she does! Oh...and now that she can actually get around, she has a lot of fun chasing Colton and Levi around! She is a happy girl, always smiling and ready to get into mischief. She absolutely LOVES watching Molly, and she adopts this high, squeaky little voice whenever we mention Ski's name. She is perfecting her bye-bye wave, actually moving her hand up and down instead of just putting it out in front of her like she was doing before. Another favorite of hers is giving kisses, which she loves to do with her mouth wide open...yum! She is still shy around strangers, but eventually she will sometimes warm up to them and give her shy little smile. Riles is also quite the talker (which her Nene says she got from her, definitely not from her Mom or Dad!), always filling us in on her thoughts in her sweet little voice.

We wish we could report that Riles is finally sleeping through the night...but she is not. We figure at this point it's become a habit that we are going to have to break, slowly but surely. But no matter how bad her night was, it's hard not to smile the next morning when we walk in to get her and she's standing up in her crib, grinning from ear to ear and babbling to herself. Some of her favorite hobbies are: playing in Ski's water bowl, trying to eat her dog food, pulling clothes out of a laundry basket one by one, "helping" us unload the dishwasher, making loud noises with whatever she can find around the house...oh, and eating! Even though she only has 2 teeth, she finds a way to devour whatever we give her.