9 Months

Kathryn turned 9 months at the beginning of December. When I took her into the doctor a couple weeks ago, she was 27 inches long and 16 pounds, exactly. They didn’t say what percentile that is all in, which is kind of good. He said she was growing and that is good. With percentiles, doctors get kind of worried with how small our kids are, so I’m okay not knowing. This is a picture from yesterday, in a dress she got for Christmas from Grandma. She would not leave the headband alone, so she didn’t wear it to church.

Things about Kathryn at 9 months:

-Finally has a tooth, the second one is working it’s way through and she can be grumpy about it sometimes

-Will sleep through the night (11-12 hours) unless sick or teething.

-Loves to play peek a boo, she will hide her face with anything she can: a blanket, burp cloth, clothes, diaper, etc. She even says “Bababa.” while doing it like she is trying to say boo.

-Babbles a lot.

-Crawls, cruises along things. Therefore she gets into everything. Each day it seems like she can reach higher and higher.

-Loves to get paper when she can.

-Loves playing with her brothers and their toys.

-Takes two naps a day, getting better at taking a little longer naps (an hour, sometimes an hour and half, yay!)

-Loves almost any food (but not turkey). She eats baby food like a champ. She takes a bottle once a day (unlike the boys who would not take a bottle)

-Loves people

-Can stand on her own without holding onto anything, so close to walking, but not yet decided to, crawling is easier, faster.

-Can climb stairs if she really wants to (she has done it like twice)

-Eats anything off the floor that she can.

-Still loves to suck her thumb when she is tired.

We love her. She is such a sweet baby.

December

This has been a busy month for us. We got our first snow. Ian loved playing in the snow and was out there all Sunday morning Jaiden tolerated playing out for a little bit. Kathryn wasn't quite sure what to think and she couldn't move around easy in all the (too big) snow stuff.

Our snowman fell as we were building him.

The snow was gone later that week, when it rained. We got maybe an inch and half that time.

We had a Christmas breakfast for our ward party. It was actually both wards here. It was good. We were able to visit with people. One of our friends has four girls and two boys. The three oldest girls took care of Ian and Jaiden for us. They helped them with the crafts and everything.

We went to the aquarium to see Santa. They didn't even charge extra for pictures with Santa!

Jaiden wasn't crying, he just didn't want to smile for the camera.

Kathryn didn't know what to think and was distracted by his beard.

We explored some at the museum. There was a part open that hasn't been open when we have been there before, Rex and Ian had a lot of fun with it.

We then saw Santa swim with the fish. I'll post the video on that later, it's not working now.

Kathryn was wearing a cute Christmas elf dress that day.

She can now stand on her own without holding on to anything, but she doesn't want to walk yet. 

She has also discovered peek a boo. She will hold things in front of her face and hide and then put it down. She also talks will doing this, so I think she is trying to say boo, but it comes out as baa.

Last weekend we went to our friends' house for pizza, games, and movie. It was a great night. The girls took Kathryn about half the time and Rex was able to get her to sleep for part of the movie (it was late). We are excited to have someone who likes to play games (they have many of the same ones as we have).

This Thursday we got a big snow storm, so Ian had his polar express day at school on Wednesday. I was able to find a sitter for Jaiden and Kathryn last minute to help out in Ian's class. There were several fun activities. At the table I was at, the kids put sentences from the story in order and then color pictures, cut them out, and put them in order. There was also musical chairs and reading sight words, making reindeer antlers, and a few other activities. They had hot chocolate and donut holes for snack. That afternoon they watched the Polar Express movie.

School was cancelled Thursday because of the snow, that was the last day before Christmas break, but they were going to make it up today, but the roads were still bad. Ian has had a blast playing out in the snow. He has been out there a couple hours already today. It is too deep for Jaiden to enjoy it, he can't walk in it. Thankfully, the kids and I haven't had to go anywhere the past couple days (Rex went to work yesterday though the flights were cancelled and he worked today).