9 months...

NINE MONTHS...can you believe it's been NINE MONTHS since Jentry was born? I can't believe it! We had her NINE MONTH doctor appointment with Dr. Miller today and Jentry weighs 15 pounds 15 ounces...she is one ounce from 16 pounds! Still only the 10th percentile for weight...but at one point in her life she wasn't even on the growth chart. I'm so happy with her growth...remember she weighed a mere 5 pounds 2.9 ounces when she was born...so she has gained 10 pounds and 12 ounces since she was born NINE MONTHS ago! She is getting to be such a big girl! This month she started to reach for her Mommy and Daddy when she wants to be picked up, the Jumperoo is on the final setting and she is quickly becoming too tall for that toy, we've retired the swing and Bumbo seat, in fact at school Miss Monica and Miss Sam said that she just crawls right out of the Bumbo! Silly girl :) Jentry gets up on all fours and will rock back and forth...she crawls err scoots backwards and then hollers when she gets stuck and can't move anymore. She is so silly, Jack and I enjoy EVERY minute we get to spend with our Princess. Jentry also knows how to hold her own bottle however, she is too lazy to do so and she knows Mommy or Daddy will hold it for her so she won't hold it for herself! Jentry still doesn't have any teeth but I just know they are coming...she chews on everything! In fact we had to go shoe shopping again because she has learned to take off her shoes. They had velcro and as soon as you put them on her she would take them off and chew on the velcro. So we bought her some gold Robeez...she hasn't learned to take these off yet...instead she just sucks on them! We have finally moved to jars of 3rd foods and Jentry is doing well on them, she still eats in a fury each time she's in her high chair. Jentry has also started to feed herself cereal puffs. Mommy and Daddy like to cheer for her when she hits her mouth with her little fingers and actually gets a puff in there. Miss Sam and Miss Monica said that when she sees her pink lunch bag come out of the fridge at daycare she gets all excited! I love that she knows her own bag :) When we go to leave for the day she likes to carry the pink bag to her car seat...I think she's attached to the bag...we might have a little Vera fan in the making seeing that her lunch bag is Pink Cupcakes by Vera Bradley Jentry has finally grown out of her acid reflux and at NINE MONTHS is finally sleeping in her crib and still sleeping through the night :) She is the best baby ever!!

I just asked Jack what else Jentry has started to do this month and he said she scrunches up her nose and makes funny faces at him...this face is very funny...she sorta looks like a piglet. We love it! But I haven't been able to capture it on film just yet....maybe that will have to be our next post!

Well...we've officially made it NINE MONTHS...that is longer than she was in my womb! She's officially been alive longer than I was able to carry her. Jack and I love to watch her grow and explore each and every day. She is a super cute, very happy, extremely content baby and we couldn't ask for anything else.