The night before Thanksgiving Reaghan stayed up a little past her bedtime with me and helped me make desserts. I'm so Thankful that she loves to be her mama's big helper and thankful for the way her smile lights up her face when I tell her we're going to have big girl time together.

I'm a little over a week late in posting this! Grrrr... but better late than never! We had a fun October picking apples and pumpkins and dressing up for Harvest parties! Now we're headed into Thanksgiving and Christmas and I can't wait!

Size

At her 9 month check up she weighed 18 pounds and 8 oz. 56th percentile for weight, 60th for head size and 75th for height which was surprising to me because she doesn't seem tall to me. She's a good 2 pounds heavier than her sister was at this age. She's wearing both 9 month and 12 month clothes depending on the brand.

Health

Finally got her first tooth! Bottom left one poked through on Oct 24th, at 8 1/2 months. 

Feeding

She's eating a lot more table foods now. She loves little pieces of anything I give her off of my plate, even chicken, ground turkey, eggs, bread. All the things! She loves little yogurt melts and puffs. Can eat an applesauce pouch faster than her big sissy. Still loves to nurse and thinks that acrobatics are a part of feeding. My milk supply has really dropped this past month with her eating more foods so my let down takes a while and she gets so distracted waiting for the milk to come! She pulls off a bajillion times because its taking too long for her which of course just means it takes even longer! Going to get some fenugreek tea this week to see if I can boost my supply a little bit. I definitely want to keep nursing until we reach 12 months at least. 

Sleeping

She is finally sleeping through the night 90% of the time. Goes to bed between 8 and 8:30 and usually sleeps until 7:30-8. Every once in a while she'll wake up and need me to get her paci for her, sometimes {like last night} she refuses to sleep unless she's fed again. With Reaghan it stressed me out if I was feeding my baby in the middle of the night at this age, but with Lilly... well, since most of the time she's sleeping through the night and since she literally will cry for hours unless I feed her, I just feed her so we can both go back to bed. If it starts happening regularly I'll stick to my guns and win the cry it out battle, but if its just every once in a while.... *shrugs* she'll eventually not feed at all and I'll miss it. I know now how fast it goes. She still takes 2-2.5 hour naps in the afternoon! Morning naps are usually little cat naps. Very flexible when out and about though and doesn't get fussy if she doesn't get her usual naps.

Likes

She likes her teething toys, especially when they are nice and cold. She likes to splash in the bath, bang on high chair trays and drum toys. She likes to give kisses to big sissy's baby dolls. Everything goes into her mouth, especially paper things! We have to watch her like a hawk! She likes rattles, and playing peek a boo. She still wants to play with whatever Reaghan is playing with and get into her doll house, kitchen set, puzzles and magazines. She also loves Piper's dog toys and dog dishes. I've caught her with a dog toy in her mouth so many times! *gag* 

Dislikes

She doesn't like to be read to, mostly because she doesn't like to sit still. She doesn't like when we wipe her face or try to teach her sign language. I'm trying to teach her more and please instead of screaming/screeching for more food, but she throws a fit every time I hold her hands to show her.  She doesn't like to be far from mommy... she crawls around behind me and pulls herself up on me as soon as I stop moving. Its endearing until its not because I keep having to bend down to peel her off of me or pick her up to move again! 

I got what they called a Cinnamon Crunch Latte. This is the type of picture I saw on my facebook news feed all summer. I don't even really like coffee, but for some reason this just looked so good so I had to order one to see if it tasted as good as it looked. I'm so glad I did because it was a-maz-ing! I've never had a coffee so smooth and treat like! I can kind of drink a fancy Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha with pumps of caramel syrup in it but I never truly enjoy it. This? I S A V O R E D.

{Don't mind the gash in the middle of my forehead that I'm trying to cover up with makeup. My face had an unfortunate collision with a car door last week.}

I had the pleasure of sitting next to my beautiful Grandma during brunch and sharing our food while she told me a story about a man, a friend of hers, who embarrassed her when she was younger by coming in to the Sunday school class she was teaching and asking loudly "Is hoochie Cucci teaching today?" {For clarification, her last name is Ricucci - "Ri-koo-chee". :)} My grandma loves to share stories, and she loves to say "to make a long story short." as she fills you in on all the details of the story and I love to listen to her stories. <3

The sun was in Reaghan's eyes, but the sign was cute so we had to snap a couple pictures.