Our sweet baby is nine months old!
Sometimes she likes to eat lots, and sometimes she just likes to play with her food! So far, she's tried bananas, peaches, oatmeal, avocado, peas, scrambled eggs, strawberries, pizza crust, chicken, rice cereal, crackers, cauliflower, corn chips, tomato sauce, japanese fried rice with white sauce, cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese, green pepper, red pepper, beets, asparagas, homemade bread, waffles, cherries, mashed potato, tomato, french toast, green beans, pasta with bolognese sauce, and black beans. So, she's tried almost everything, even though she hasn't eaten much of everything! We've decided to take a Baby Led Weaning approach to solids and it's been fun for us all!
Gemma has one tooth!
She's been to her first baseball game, although it meant staying up quite late.
For a while there, she would get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forth, like she was revving her engines! But now she mostly gets around using the army crawl. She can move pretty quickly!
Her most favorite game right now is "Where's the baby?!" which is our version of peek-a-boo. :) She loves helping to make the bed, because she loves to be buried under the billowing sheets, only to pull them off herself when she hears us ask, "Where's the baby?!"
And of course she loves playing with toys, electrical cords, and just about anything she can get her hands on! Gemma remains our happy girl and is starting to learn not to fuss when we say "all done!" and have to take something away. O, next three months, pass slowly by!
Whats wrong with fussing over someone taking something away? Just curious... it was never on my list of concerns for a 9 month old :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the video, short as it was, it was more like seeing her for real :)
I guess fussing is a normal reaction! Sometimes we "trade," i.e. I give her something else to play with when I take the desired object away, and that helps. Maybe it's because I have a low tolerance for crying, but we also want to teach her to trust Mommy and Daddy when she can't get her own way. I've been convicted lately that allowing her to break God's law (honor your father and mother) isn't wrong only because it will make our lives harder down the road, but because it's displeasing to God Himself when she disobeys. Of course we're not completely there yet, but I think we're getting there.
ReplyDeleteAnd I definitely think that most crying is just communicating needs and should be responded to with that need being met!
I have a low tolerance for crying too, I'm glad Charlie is getting closer to communicating his needs and desires in other ways :)
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