Skip to main content

Avery 9 Months

Happy 9 Month Birthday, Little Missy!

Avery did not want to smile for me today. This was the only picture she smiled in. And the quality of these pictures turned out very poor. But, it is what it is.


Avery is becoming a very opinionated, very independant little girl! She wants what she wants when she wants it. I am not sure if that is her personality or just how babies are at this age, when they realize that there are things around them and they want them, now, now NOW! Or they cry when they don't want to lay down long enough for them to change their clothes. Or when they don't want to go to sleep. But, that's how she is! She hates getting her shirts changed now, she hates being stationary, even for a few seconds! And she has found her voice, so she is going through a squealing, screaming phase. She is starting to learn the word "no" more lately. Like when she screams in the car at the top of her lungs just because she wants out - we have to say, "No Avery. We don't scream." She stares at us like, "um, excuse me?" But she knows what "no" means.

She is always talking. She says "ma ma" and "da da" along with all kinds of other interesting sounds. I still don't think she knows what those words mean, but we are trying to respond when she says those sounds, even by accident. Maybe she'll pick up on it soon.

She is crawling everywhere now! She is starting to really pick up on the fact that she doesn't have to stay within the same 3 feet radius. There are all kinds of fun things to explore for her now, and she loves to just go around and see. She also is pulling herself up on everything. That, of all things, is what makes me the most nervous! She has hit her head a few times, I mean, in the blink of an eye, while you are watching them, they can hurt themselves!

She weighs 23 pounds (or so) and is eating lots of big kid food (bread, Cheerios, mashed up veggies and fruits with chunks, etc.)


Avery loves her sister and brother, so much. She laughs and laughs at them when they are with us. She also loves us, very much. Everyday, it seems she has a favorite parent. I do think she is going to be a daddy's girl, though. Daddy's are fun, after all. At least, hers is.


Avery really does love to smile. She smiles constantly. Just not when I am trying to take her picture in the morning on her 9 month birthday and I don't have alot of time. :-) But she is a very very happy baby!!!


I have learned that weighted down diaper boxes are a great thing to climb on. If they fall on them, they don't hurt and they are the perfect height!


Why does my daughter look like a vampire in this picture?

She still wants to eat everything, so we have to really watch her now. Oy.


Avery Grace, please stop growing so fast. You are making mommy a little sad that you will be a year old in 3 short months. But I am really loving watching you get bigger and discover new things!!!

I love you!

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Why I am Pro Universal Healthcare and Changes to Our Healthcare System

Due to my recent proactivity with my credit and paying off debt, I decided to give the hospital a call where I was admitted about a month ago and ask about my bill. I wanted to make sure I didn't miss it in the mail and I wanted to get an idea of what I'd be paying for my stay. I get on the phone with the billing department and the woman is just as nice as can be, really. She was surprised I'd even called her, considering I didn't even have a bill yet. She told me she'd sent the bill over to my insurance to be approved and paid but they hadn't heard back yet. "Just out of curiosity," I asked, knowing I would be responsible for 20% of the final bill, "how much was it?" What I heard next shocked me.   "$61,000" she said.   I said, "$61,000? I was only in the hospital for a night and only on anti-biotics, you can't be serious! My daughter cost me less than a third of that to give birth to and I was in the hospital two nights!...
6 comments
Read more

Some Changes...

We've been going through a bit of a transition at the Whitehead household the last month or so. I haven't really talked too much about it because I wasn't ready, to be honest. It's just a lot of change and I've been trying to figure it out in my head.   As of three weeks ago last Friday, I am no longer a full time work out of home employee.   I can't believe I just said that.   It's been the plan for several months now for me to go into real estate and it was always assumed I'd be doing that part time, while keeping my full time job. Plans kind of changed when Jason got his promotion. He'd always has a job that allowed him a lot of flexibility. In sales, especially after you've been in a position for a while, it just sort of happens that way. He could take Avery to daycare and pick her up, he could take her to doctor's appointments, he could even do chores around the house in the afternoon, while I was at work. I had some flexibi...
3 comments
Read more

That "Thing" in That Basket Isn't a Baby, You Know That, Right?

I have had the most horrible case of writer's block lately! With that said, I saw this article on Babycenter and I just had to write something about it.   So, we've heard of the trend of eating the placenta after birth . We've heard of the trend of putting them in pill form to get the nutrients . But this? This to me, is just the craziest of them all.   As a group of beings on this planet, I've never seen any other mammal who evolves to get to a certain place, then de-evolves on purpose, to be more "natural." I am sure I am seriously about to put my foot in my mouth, I am sure there are (some) people out there that I might offend with my "closed-mindedness" on this topic. But this is just, well, ridiculous to me.   Basically, after the placenta comes out, instead of cutting the cord and detaching it from the baby, you leave the placenta on, they salt it to help with the decomp process, add rosemary (I am guessing for the smell?), then p...
7 comments
Read more