9 Months!

Aislin is 9 Months old as of yesterday. I know I say this every month, but, time is flying by as we watch her grow and learn.
She now weighs 22 1/2 lbs!
She is very close to crawling, but she just rocks when she gets on her hands and knees. She hasn't quite figured out how to propel herself forward. She just rolls all over the place, or scoots while she's sitting.

This is the smile that she has on her face most of the time. It's just one of the million faces she makes. If you look closely, you can see a small bruise on her forehead that she got while she was in bathtub. She got scared and lunged toward me and hit her head on one of the whirlpool jets. Poor thing. She's okay though, it's almost all the way gone.
She is still teething. I just know that tooth will pop through anytime now.

I love this picture, because it's so classic of her. She likes to sit with her ankles crossed. She is watching one of her Baby Einstein dvd's here and probably chewing on her tongue.
She has started trying some food recently. We gave her Sweet Potatoes for about a week and she really loved them. We then tried Squash and she was definitely not having it. So we moved on to Peas. She was okay with them, but we noticed that she was more fussy and her bowels were not happy. She also puked them up the second day. So now we are trying Carrots. Today was the first day and so far she likes them allright. We'll see how it goes.

She has learned some new moves lately and I'll try to get a video up soon. She has started to feel the groove of music. We noticed it when we would watch American Idol. She started to rock her body to the music, and now she does it all the time... even to the music on commercials.
She also has learned how to give 5. Then she claps. She loves clapping. We are trying to teach her how to wave.

Aislin is such a happy girl. She babbles and laughs at everything; her books, the grass, my hair, her toys....everything.
May you always have that joy, baby girl!