9 Months

Bailey is now 9 months old. At her 9 month checkup, she weighed 15 lbs 9 oz., height was 26.5 inches, and head circumference was 17.5 inches. This puts her in the almost 10th percentile for weight, 11th for length, and 67th for head circumference. I think she is just really smart. : )

And so that I will have these all in one place, here are her stats from all her other checkups:

2 weeks:
Height - 19 inches (5.7%)
Weight - 5.9 lbs (2.02%)
FOC (Head Circumference) - 13-1/4 inches (4.1%)

2 months:
Height - 20.5 inches (2.18%)
Weight - 7 lbs 1 oz. (0.3%)
FOC - 14.5 inches (7.6%)

4 months:
Height - 24 inches (39%)
Weight - 10 lbs 8 oz (2%)
FOC - 15-3/4 inches (23%)

6 months:
Height - 25 inches (20.37%)
Weight - 13 lbs 12 oz. (8.91%)
FOC - 16-3/4 inches (22.84%)


At 9 months, she is crawling all over the place. There is no stopping her now.

She mostly does this crawl with two hands, one leg, and one foot.

She's also pulling up on anything she can reach to stand up. And....we've got our first tooth! It actually popped up just before she reached 9 months.

If you look closely, you can just see it on the bottom.

I will miss her toothless grin when she has a mouth full of teeth.


Here are some things we have done in the last few weeks:

A trip to Pineville:

Sitting in our old high chair

Sitting in her Bailey-sized chair

Playing with crayons at Cracker Barrel 

With Cousin Paige at Cajun Catfish

With Uncle Adam and Cousin Lilly

While we were there, we took Bailey to Ms. Cony's to get her hair cut:

Bailey also got to visit with Maw Maw....

ride with G-Bob on the lawnmower....

and swim in her very own pool.

A couple of shots before bed:

A couple of weeks ago Bailey had her first experience at Chuck E. Cheese :

First sippy cup:

Bailey has now also had her first taste of dog food. It must not be that bad because she didn't spit it out. (Don't worry, I fished it out of her mouth.) Sadly, I didn't get a picture to document the occasion.

Also, a couple of weeks ago she took a steak knife from a restaurant, which we didn't find until we got home. Thankfully she did not hurt herself with it. I plan to return the knife on our next visit to said restaurant.

This is all I have for now, but now that I am somewhat caught up, I will really try to update more often. I have lots of pictures to post!

Celebrating Baby Colton

Last Saturday we threw a shower for my sister-in-law Amy, who is expecting her baby boy Colton in September. Amy is doing a Noah's Ark theme in her nursery, so we went with an animal theme for the shower. It turned out super cute!

Most of these pictures are from my camera, but of course, my camera battery died mid-shower and I only got pictures of the food and decorations, so I am snagging a few from Amy's facebook.

There was a LOT of food!

Baby bath tub makes a cute Noah's Ark!

I love these little penguins.

Dessert table

I was in charge of cupcakes, cookies, and cake pops. I got my
friend/co-worker Gloria to make her famous cake pops in the
shape of animals. They turned out really cute
and even resembled animals in an ark (except there are
more than two of each).



I made the cookies and cupcakes.
Note: This is what I should have been doing Thursday night when I was at
the Harry Potter party! But it all worked out and everything got done.

Animal print cupcake wrappers were easy to make thanks to my trusty Cricut.

This was my gift to Colton...

and this. :)

All the fun gifts

Bailey and Nana

Poor Colton has two older girl cousins waiting to boss him around.
(At the moment, Bailey wanted to eat and not take a picture.)

Andrew and Amy, the proud parents-to-be

We're all excited to welcome the newest member of the family soon!