Nine Months

Oatmeal face


Riding her car while watching the Steelers play


She loves the train and especially the fun balls


At her first attempt, she couldn't figure how to eat the second part of the puff after taking a bite while the second bite was still in her fist. So she decided to stick the whole puff in her mouth and just chew it down. Little smarty pants!


After a bath, trying to get a pic of how long her hair is straight(past her ears) but it curled up too fast!


In a week, on Feburary 7, Zenobia will be 9 months old. She is getting so big and growing up so fast. Her latest thing now is waving and clapping. Whenever music comes on or she gets excited about something, she'll clap. If I sit her on my lap facing me, she'll start to clap and play "Pat-a-cake". Of course when we want her to wave she doesn't, but she does wave at us when she sees us across the room. And right now, as I am typing, Zenobia is trying to crawl up onto the file cabinet. She loves to crawl over and on top of things and her new thing is climbing the stairs. Since she crawled up and into the dishwasher, I taught her how to climb the stairs. Now, we need to work on going down them safely. She is also pushing her little car around the house. She just loves to have the freedom to walk wherever she wants to go (well almost everywhere). Zenobia has been getting braver and starting to let go of the furniture when cruising around. The balance isn't quite there-but almost! And then there's the food-this girl loves to eat! So far she has liked just about everything we have given her. She is doing well with finger foods and like me, loves cheese!! Even though she doesn't have any teeth yet, she does a good job "chewing". But, we can't eat in front of her without putting something down for her to eat. She will go crazy if we're eating and she's not. Time has gone by so fast and we are trying to cherish everyday with her because we know, this age will pass to fast.