9 Months!

My little peanut turned 9 months old today. She is doing all sorts of new 'tricks' now. She started crawling last week (mostly an army crawl at this point) and she moves fast! She is also pulling to a stand and she 'cruises' on furniture from side to side while she is standing. She has started babbling quite a bit as well. She says 'Mama', 'Dada', and sometimes 'hi'. We can't figure out whether she actually associates the words with us yet or not. She continues to be an incredibly happy baby, she loves going out and seeing new faces and seems to really enjoy the fresh air when we go for walks. She just adores her brother and wants to play with all of his toys, which he is NOT happy about. She has just recently started to get very angry if we take a toy away from her.

I just had a parent-teacher conference today for Evan and they had great things to say. He is really enjoying preschool now and looks forward to going. He is starting to create bonds with other children in his class which is great, up until recently he seemed to only talk about our neighbor (Molly) who is also his classmate. He is a bright little boy and continues to challenge us daily, testing the boundaries at every turn!

Funny Evan comments:

The other day I brought up what he should do in an emergency if I was hurt (e.g. finding a phone in our house and dialing 911) and he looked at me with a very somber look on his face and said "why are you talking about this now"? I swear sometimes he acts like he is 3 going on 30!

He has been very interested in dinosaurs recently and we talk frequently about the fact that they are extinct and have been for millions of years. At the dinner table recently he asked if I remembered the dinosaurs from when I was little!

One evening after an especially frustrating day with him he climbed in my lap, hugged me tight and said "I love you Mom. I want to marry you."

I don't know why it is that kids at this age seem to talk about marriage but apparently one of his classmates told her parents that she wanted to marry Evan. She even pointed his picture out to her Dad in their class photo. I told Evan about this and he said very seriously "I can't marry her, I am marrying Molly".