Lila: 9 Months

9 MONTH STATS:

17.1 lbs (20th%) 27.5 inches (50th%)

Well I think it's safe to say that this past month hasn't been the best for Lila. Our poor babe fell down the stairs and fractured here femur. You can read more about the whole story here. But all things considered she is doing so well! She has a brace that she has to wear (I took it off for the picture!) It comes off on December 22nd- right before Christmas! It will be an awesome present for all of us. Paul and I have been so impressed with her resilience... she has figured out how to crawl, sit up, roll over, and stand ALL with that big, annoying brace on. But besides that, here's what Lila has been up to this month:

Lila has discovered whispering. It's so cute to hear her babble in a whisper.
Before breaking her femur Lila was getting really good at pulling her self up and standing. She also would hold onto our fingers and "walk" around. I'm sure once she gets her brace off she'll pick that right back up.
Lila LOVES books! She didn't really have any interest until now. She'll crawl over to where here books are and will look at them and turn the pages all by herself. It makes me so happy. I love reading with her!
She loves to take objects out of things. She loves to empty out her toy basket and the diaper bag. She'll take things out one by one and examine them and then move on to the next thing.
Lila is starting to figure out when we play games with her. We'll play what we call "The Dino Game" where one of us will pretend to be a dinosaur and chase after her. She loves it! If we ever make the dinosaur growl and put our hand up like little claws she gets to excited.
She also loves playing peek-a-boo.
Lila loves her sippy cup. This girl can chug water!
Still no teeth! But I'm ok holding on to her toothless grin while I can!