9 month stats

Cut me some slack -- it's hard to make a baby laugh and take a well-centered photo at the same time.

Fiona had her 9 month checkup and we found out that she is extremely average:

weight: 19lbs 1oz (55th percentile)
height: 27.5 in (50th percentile)
head circumference: 44 cm (50th percentile)

In other news, Fiona has a new tooth (for a grand total of 2, both on the bottom in the front) and her first word is "wow!" but we're not 100% sure that it counts since we don't know if she knows what it means. She can say mama and dada, but it's similarly hard to tell if she knows what they mean. When I picked her up from Nancy's house today (our daily babysitter) I put her in the car seat. She was not pleased and clearly said "Hey, mom!"

9 months already? really?

Fiona will be 9 months old tomorrow! One of these days we'll post some videos but here are some cute photos in the meantime. She got her first tooth this week!

Also, happy Veterans Day!

Mrow!

Halloween and some other recent photos

The last few weeks have been too busy to blog, so I'm finally getting around to a quick post. For halloween we dressed Fiona as a bunny and let her watch all the kids come up to our door to get candy. I guess our neighborhood is pretty serious about halloween, because we ran out of candy in about half an hour!

Fiona has learned how to cruise the furniture and a few times she has let go and stood up without holding anything for a few seconds. She can walk while holding onto the couch, and likes to try to grab any sleeping feline creature within her reach.

She also is about ready to cut her first tooth, any day now. It's really close to the surface, and we've been giving her frozen things and baby ora-jel to dull the ache a bit.

She's eating a lot more foods. She's no longer a vegetarian as of this week. Fiona got to try chicken and likes it! We were a little grossed out by the pureed baby food chicken, so we waited until she could eat pieces of it cut up. She also eats cheerios, baby yogurt, and bread. She loves to pick up the cheerios with her little fingers and feed herself!

We'll try to get some more video up soon, but until then here are some new pics: