Millie is on the move! The girl has just started crawling EVERYWHERE. Nothing is safe, she has no boundaries and I am a little nervous about these long stairs – she has taken a half fall already 🙁 I love how she will just show up in the kitchen now – it catches me off guard how she can get where ever she wants. This is our first baby in this house so everything is new and different.
She loves to stand up and hold on to things. She loves chewing on everything. She still has 2 teeth. She loves food – really loves bread and crackers and cooked carrots. She still nurses but loves to eat solids. I don’t have any height or weight stats. She has been waking up two times a night lately which I do not appreciate. I love when she gets excited and wiggles her whole body and I love when she rocks back and forth to music. Millie is a such a cutie.

Here’s a little bit I wrote about her on her 9 month day:

Millie Marie

9 months old

She spits. She spits cute little bubbles at you (raspberry style) and it just makes you want to spit them back. She also does big spit ups a lot. Not as cute. She still nurses most of the time but she LOVES a bottle – 4 ounces isn’t enough anymore. She also loves food. Some of her staples are baby puffs, crackers, rice cereal with bananas and this week she is loving the leftover french bread. She is a good sleeper right now. She is tired around 8pm and sleeps until 4 or 5am and then back down until 8ish. Millie likes to chew – she always has something in her mouth. She can stand up if she holds on to something and just this week she is learning to crawl and to pull herself up on things!! She is on the move now – not a good crawler but she’ll squirm around until she gets where she wants to. When she nurses she doesn’t let me use my phone anymore – if I have my phone in my hand she waves her hand around until she finds it and grabs and pushes buttons until I get frustrated and put the phone away. If I wear a necklace or earings she grabs like crazy and eats the necklace.

Today I nursed her in bed at 4:30am and put her back in bed at 5:00. I peeked on her at 8:30 when I took Packer to school and she was awake but just chillin. I left her in there until 9:00 when I had gotten the other kids their breakfast. She is usually sitting up in her bed these days and squawks to get out. I got her out and she wanted to nurse right away. Then she played happily on the family room floor until 9:45. I then put her in the bumbo with a piece of bread while I got the dishes done. At 10 we went up and got a quick bath and then I laid her in bed and she went right to sleep. If you time it right she doesn’t even cry when you put her down. I woke her up at 11:30 and put her  right in the car. We picked Packer up from school and then drove to JCPenny portrait studio to get her Bath tub picture to match the rest of the kids. She was a little mad until I gave her a graham Cracker with the rest of the kids. They were running behind at the studio so I nursed her a little while we waited and she stole one of Ray’s goldfish crackers. She was smiley and happy for her pictures and then I let her have the 4 ounce bottle while we walked around the mall. We played on everything kid friendly, explored the new toy store and let the kids ride the escalator a hundred times. oh yeah, this is about Millie. She started getting whiny and wanting to be held so we left around 2:30 and she fell asleep in the car. She woke up when we got home so I played with her for a few minutes and nursed her a little and she was acting tired so I put her in bed and she went right to sleep.  I will wake her up at 5:00 for my soccer game and she will nurse and then eat some puffs while I play. We will hang out and play until 8:00, nurse one more time and put her down for the night. Sounds like a good life – right?

She is a good baby if we are on the go. She likes being outside. She did really good at Trafalga last week and she did really good at the splash pad yesterday. She gets antsy when I leave her sitting on the floor at home. And when she’s tired she just wants her bed. Last week Grandma Nettesheim baby sat her and she cried for the whole 3 hours!! I think it was just the perfect storm of tired, falling asleep on the way over for a short 10 minute nap and then not having any of her siblings around in a foreign location… As soon as I came back she was all smiles.