9 months old!!

Every time Bella gets close to being a month older I start saying, "she's almost ___ months" but this time around I just couldn't bring myself to say she is almost 9 months.  But alas, today my sweet girl is 9 months.  She is just such a little girl now and although it keeps getting more fun I don't want this phase to pass so quickly!!  She is so eager to be mobile that it's hard for me to get my quota of kisses, hugs, and chubby leg squeezes in!!!

What she can do:
-she has gone from cooing to "speaking" gibberish.  She uses all sorts of sounds and strings them all together like she is telling a story but the only word is still dada.
-she FINALLY rolled to her tummy...she still doesn't like being there and only does it to reach for things.
-she will lurch forward into a crawling position from sitting but doesn't yet crawl
-she likes to pull up and stand
-she can feed herself with a spoon!!  we load the spoon up and she shovels it in!
-she can finally get more than half the cheerios in her mouth instead of her lap or stuck to her chin
-she plays peek-a-boo with any and all objects even if its a rattle I can see her behind anyway!
-I think these are older skills I have already posted but just in case: waves goodbye, gives high five, drinks from a sippy cup/holds her own bottle, claps her hands


We will have her 9 month appointment next week...curious to see her measurements.

In older news....sorry for the delay in posting....David's Grandmother (who we call Namie) and her husband (Bob) were in from Florida for a visit.  Bella of course cried at first (still in the throws of stranger anxiety) but then was as sweet as could be.  We went out for a nice sushi dinner and felt so privileged Bella got to meet her great-grandmother!

This past weekend we also took a trip to the beach