9 Months

Little Miss Ainslee, aka Sugar Bear, aka Turkey, aka Bug is 9 months old! I love this age. She is learning so much and discipline isn't really an issue yet. I just have to tell her no on occasion and usually distraction works just fine. She is now saying Mamamama. I LOVE THAT. Lena Kate said doggie (dujie) and Dada first. Ainslee is a Mama's girl and happy on Mama's lap if she wants anybody. Other times she wants down and to go, go, go. She is stranding on her own for a few seconds but not quite ready to walk yet. I'm guessing in another month she will be walking around as a tiny tot. When she gets excited she squeals and whacks me with both hands. I kinda love it, but I gotta make sure she doesn't whack me too hard!

She loves to knock over the jug of FP Little People and pick one to chew on. Every thing goes in her mouth these days. She also likes to push her play table and Lion push toy around the room. She's pretty strong for a half pint. She also love to climb up on my treadmill and play with the books on the bookshelf. She may just be a climber, heaven help me. One of her all time favorite things to do is stand up with her hands in the seat of Lena Kate's rocking chair and rock it as hard as she can. She gets so tickled and great balance practice.

She still loves her baby food by the bowlfull and gets excited to eat, also whacking her booster chair, silly girl. She has learned to feed her Cheerios to Missy, but choices to eat the puffs rather than share. She definitely is going to have Mama's sweet tooth. Mimi likes to give her Oreo's at Granny's house and she just LOVES them. Oh, they make a big mess, but try to take it away from her and she will let you know with the death grip on the cookie that she really wants it.

One of the funniest thing she does is growl. She gets this exorcist growl going and it sounds so unexpected coming from her. She likes to growl at Missy. It makes my throat hurt to try to imitate her. Overall she is a good baby and happy, except when I try to work in the kitchen, then she is at my feet whining if not in a full on fit about it. The girl knows how to whine....already! She will go down for bed and naps on her own now and it is so nice. She does wake at night occasionally and not want to go back to sleep without me going in to comfort her for a few minutes, but that is not a regular thing, thank goodness. She will sleep until about 5:20am and then I'll get her and let her nurse and then crash in bed with me and Daddy after that. Unfortunately, lately she wants to sit up and talk a bit rather than lay down and go back to sleep. She will usually lay down with me and snuggle but not always go right to sleep, she'll roll over into Lane and I kinda want to giggle.

When you are pregnant with your second child you wonder if you can love her as much as your first born, and once you have them you wonder how you could've lived without her. She makes me love Big Sister even more, and Little Sister in her own special way. I just want to hug and kiss her and keep her small forever. She likes to give me nice open mouth kisses back...for now, I'm ok with that:) She will also lay her head down on my shoulder or chest if she is super tired-oh be still my heart.

Ainslee is also starting to enjoy Daddy much more now, even though she doesn't get to see him too much with tax season in full swing. She will crawl to him and grin and reach for him now, and I just love that she enjoys him these days.