9 months and counting

It is crazy to me that Carolyn is already nine months old. She is quickly becoming a big girl. Milestone-wise she hit two today: mastering the sippy cup and sitting in the big girl side of the bathtub. (You can kindof see her tooth in the second picture, lower left)

We have been working on the sippy cup off and on for a few months. Since she never took a bottle, my hope was for others to be able to feed her this way in the event that I was not around. She never really liked it, but seemed to be coming around when I reintroduced it last week. I removed the piece that controls the flow of the water and helped her to take a few drinks during her dinner. She seemed to like it. Yesterday I put the flow-control back in and, with my help holding it, she took a few drinks. Then today, she grabbed a handle with each hand and did it all by herself.

The bathtub thing isn't as big a deal since Auntie Courtie has done this with her before, but I today I decided that she should always sit on this side (well at least until she goes into the big tub which isn't that far off). The tub is designed to go from infants to toddlers.

For Uncle Brendan:

We started today with a 5am trip to O'Hare to drop off Daddy. We returned home for a quick nap before heading to the library for the last Read 'n' Rhyme Romp class of the session. Carolyn was particularly active today, not wanting to sit in my lap at all. She crawled over to Miss Dana, the librarian, to read one story, then crawled over to a little boy who was lying on the floor to poke him in the eye (his mother said that his big sister does it all the time, so it was okay) and then tried to stand up using a felt board (which was not promising since it isn't anchored very well, so I quickly rescued her). After class we went home, ate lunch and Carolyn took a nap. When she got up we played, had bath time (which usually happens before bed, but was midday today for pictures), took pictures, played some more, went for a walk in between bouts of rain, ate dinner, read some books, played and then, around 8, she uncharacteristically fell asleep sitting on my lap. I transferred her to her crib where she is currently. I'm hoping that this is the start of an earlier bedtime.