I am a bad blogger. We have tons of new pictures that I need to post, but they will have to wait. Things have been crazy around here. It has been a long, emotional summer, and I have fallen behind on everything...including this blog.

Sophie, on a positive note, is doing great! I absolutely love this age. She is so much fun, and she really is her own little person. Here are some updates:

1. She is a great eater. Her favorite thing is cheese...in any form. Cottage cheese, shredded cheese, cheesy pasta, melted cheese, etc. She really is a true Wisconsinite. :) She doesn't really like baby food anymore. She only wants to eat things if she can pick them up.

2. She is still pretty big for her age. At her 9-month appointment, she was a little over 20 pounds (78th percentile) and 28 inches long (82nd percentile). Her head is still smallish (24th percentile), but I really am over worrying about that.

3. She is always happy. She smiles and laughs all day long. She claps, gives high fives, lifts her arms for "so big", crawls around, walks holding our hands, crawls up stairs, climbs up stairs holding our hands, pulls herself up, and so much more.

4. It seems like she has a new sound every week or so. For that week, she says that sound over and over. She says "mamama", "nananan", "bababab", "gagagaga", "dadadada". My personal favorite is when she "blows bubbles"...saying "bbbbb".

5. She seems to know a lot of words. She USUALLY looks at Pete when I ask where Daddy is, Pete is convinced she says "mamama" when she wants me, she looks at the dogs when I ask where the doggies are, she says "numnumnum" when she wants more food, she can SOMETIMES point to certain things in books or on my face when asked, etc.

6. She loves the water. We took her in the lake at Pete's cabin, and I have been bringing her to the pool as often as I can. She LOVES it!

7. She has been consistently napping for a long, long time. She is down (or up) to two naps. One mid-morning, and one in the late afternoon. She also still goes to bed at 8:00 PM and gets up around 8:00 AM. Sometimes she wakes up once or twice, but she usually goes back to sleep quickly.

And so much more. She is just perfect, and we are so lucky. I will post pictures soon!

Mom...doesn't this look like my baby pictures?

Piggy Tails

Two little teeth...and another cute picture...

I'm pretty sure this is her proud face.

Here she is after her bath. If she ever goes into her crib during the day, this what she immediately does. We REALLY need to lower the mattress.

She liked them... :(

Just kidding. I know it's a good thing that she liked the peas. I will just have to get used to their smell. And their texture. And their color.

Pete Owes Me

We have SO MANY cute pictures of Pete and Sophie, thanks to me.

Food

Here is a list of what Sophie has tried so far...and what she thought.

*Rice cereal...she was interested at first, then she hated it, and now she likes it.
*Carrots...she thought they were fine. At that point, she didn't really know what to do with solid food.
*Oatmeal with bananas...she LOVED it.
*Pears...she thought they were fine.
*Sweet potatoes...she hated them, then she loved them, and then she hated them again.
*Apples...she LOVED them. Especially warmed up. Actually, ONLY if warmed up.
*Green beans...at first, she acted like they were the grossest thing ever. But, she ended up LOVING them!

I KNOW that I need to give her peas. Unfortunately, even thinking of them makes me want to gag.

Updates

Caitlin had her baby! Finley Scott Johnson was born late on Saturday night. Hooray!

I feel like Sophie has had a big couple of weeks. In addition to crawling:
1. She has her first tooth!
2. She repeats us when we say, "Ah bbblll". She basically talks all day long...alternating between, "Ah bbblll", "Ah goo", and "Mmmm".
3. When we put her down, she instantly crawls/army crawls to whatever is closest to her and climbs up. Including when she is in her crib. We NEED to lower the mattress because every time I put her in there, I find her standing there with a huge grin on her face.
4. Even though now she can sleep alone in her crib, I am nervous to leave her there, because she FACE PLANTS into the mattress. She purposely flips over and literally smushes her face into the mattress. Oh boy. We are going to try to get a picture of it.
5. She still loves to look at herself. When she plays with her mirror, she looks at herself and starts licking the mirror.
6. She has really improved her fine motor skills. :) She can dial the dial on her toy with one finger, she can take her paci out and put it back in, she turns pages, she knows right where to touch on her touch and feel books, she bangs her drum, she pushes buttons, etc.
7. She has a facebook page. I'm sure you can guess who set that up.

She did it!

Yesterday, one day before she turned seven months old, Sophie crawled. REALLY crawled. Pete saw it first, and she has done it a bunch of times since then.