1. She's still nursing exclusively (the only time formula has ever touched that girl's lips was when she was a few days old and I was freaking out that she wasn't eating enough.)
2. She sleeps really well at night, as long as she's in bed before eight. Otherwise she wakes up at least twice.
3. Food is a big subject with Lynny. She is a great eater. She's never picky, except when it comes to how she is fed. She will not let you feed her from a spoon. She'll occasionally let you place food in her mouth with your fingers, but mostly she just wants to do it all by herself. If you try to feed her with a spoon she just steals the spoon and stuffs it in her own mouth. She's very independent in that regard.
Her favorite foods are bananas (which we just hand her whole and she eats the whole thing in one sitting), omelets, chicken, gingersnaps, and whatever her parents happen to be eating at the time.
And she loves to share her food. It's not uncommon for her to suddenly stop eating and hold her food out so you can take a bite. She's very generous in that way.
4. She loves her mommy and daddy. Daddy is definitely the preferred parent when it comes to playtime--he manages to get a good belly laugh out of her every time--but I'm preferred for most other things, especially when she wants comfort.
5. Lynny has four words and one sign. She says Mommy (which sounds more like MmmmA!) and Daddy (A-da), hi (ai) and bye-bye (bah-bah). She also signs "all done" when she's done eating and ready to get out of her high chair.
6. Lynny loves to wave at anyone and anything. I'll often find her looking out the window and waving at the neighbor's dog across the street. She'll also wave at pictures on the wall or mantle.
7. Her favorite activities include going outside, going for rides in the car, being thrown onto the LoveSac, holding onto Mommy and Daddy's fingers while walking, rolling over during diaper changes, turning the lightswitch on and off, and anything that involves climbing all over Mommy and Daddy.
8. She still isn't exactly crawling, but she does scoot backwards and around in circles on her belly. Also, we'll put her down on the floor and she'll somehow manage to move to about three feet from her starting position without ever crawling or even going onto her belly. We still haven't figured out how she's doing it.
9. She can pull herself to standing when she manages to get to something she can pull up on. Her favorite place is the side of the bathtub, but that makes me nervous. Even with a mat she can still slip!
10. She has a thing for shoes. She loves to look at them, feel them, wear them, and eat them. I can't explain it.
11. We haven't had her nine month check-up yet, but she's about twenty pounds and pretty tall (at least compared to all the similarly aged babies at church.) We'll see what the doctor says on Monday.
12. She has five and a half teeth, with two more about to burst through. That girl is going to have a full mouth of teeth by the time she's one, I swear.
Well, that's a small glimpse at our little girl!
Here's Lynny looking a little sleepy right before we took her on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
