And at 10 months because I never posted it:

(I’m not that consistent with the photos, like colour wise and the look of the photo, but it’s getting hard to keep Hailey there and happy. This time I sang the ABCs over and over but could not get her to look at me and smile)

Things Hailey loves this month:

• pointing at everything, especially with both hands but they will be pointed in opposite directions.
• hugging! She loves to give hugs now, some are quick and some are really long. They melt me.
• playing music on her fisher price barn and bopping to the music
• Pressing her books that do things, like meowing or cackling like a witch. When she presses the button she will giggle and look at me or whoever is in the room to make sure we saw that she made the sound go. She gets so proud of herself.

No walking yet, but Hailey is becoming so quick. She crawls away really fast and will quickly crawl to her push toy when she wants to go somewhere walking, like chasing the cats, she prefers to walk there, even though the cats are way faster and will be up and over the couch in a flash.

Pushing a laundry basket is another way she likes to get around.

Saturday will be Hailey’s first Christmas. I know she won’t understand what is happening but I’m sure she will have fun, she can be a little party animal.  I hope that we can squeeze naps in somewhere otherwise she can get a bit grumpy. We have one family Christmas on Christmas Eve and 4 stops to make on Christmas + church, luckily they are all within 15 min of eachother, although a longer drive would be perfect for a nap.

This month Hailey became a tooth monster. She has 5 teeth and I think 4 of them came just in the past month, 3 on the top and 2 on the bottom.  Her top teeth look so big in her little mouth. One more at the top is ready to pop through, but there is no sign of more on the bottom yet.

Next month I will have a year old baby!

We have a double digits baby!

Hailey is crawling allll over the house. Getting into all our cabinets, the pantry and today found the cactus-es that my Oma & Opa left here. Time to get rid of them, anyone want a cactus?

Toys do not seem to entertain her for long. She flits from one to the next, which I hear is normal for this age. Her current favourites that keep her entertained the longest are party/beer cups and shapes and barn from her shape sorter.  She also likes to walk with her push walker toy.

This month Hailey got her FIRST tooth! She’s a one tooth wonder now. Turns out what I thought was her 4th cold was nose running because she had a tooth ready to pop up. No sign of any other teeth, but the one she has did pop up all of a sudden.  BUT now as I finish this today, I noticed another tooth popping out of the top gum. It looks like it hurts, and I can tell also because shes whining a lot and not napping very well. I hope it stops hurting her soon.

We took a trip to Ottawa this month, it was the farthest Hailey has traveled. She did great, other then napping in her pack and play. Naps were taken in the car seat, stroller and carrier, but never in her pack and play. She’s just not used to it enough to sleep in there. She got really great at going from person to person even new people that she had never met before. Hailey also had her first trip into Quebec, to Gatineau park and her first ride on a city bus.

Hailey loves reading her books. To keep her occupied during church we bring books and they keep her very entertained. The people sitting behind also help, but I’m always grateful to have remembered the books.  She loves to play in her room and pull all the books off the shelf, and I love the bit of downtime it gives me to sit in the chair and watch her play.

Hailey is crusing all around with the furniture and pulling up on everything. My little girl will be 1 and walking before we know it!

I think I mentioned in my last post about Hailey, some cute things she was doing. I captured her lizard tongue on camera today, she also laughs when I laugh, which is another thing she loves doing lately. I just love her to pieces. One more cute thing is when she eats she says mmmmm. I say it to try and convince her that she likes it (even though she doesn’t know that saying mmm means you like it).

May I also mention that Daylight Savings Time is kicking Hailey’s butt. Poor girl does not know what is going on. She slept over at my in-laws on Sat night and went to bed late at around 8:15pm and woke up at 6:30am. Last night I put her down at 7:30pm our normal time and I expected a normal 7:30am wake up. Hailey woke up at 6am and started yelling and talking. I am not okay with a 6am wake up, so hopefully she figures out that she needs to sleep longer!

We finally have a crawler! I was sure that Hailey would never crawl, and would probably go straight to walking. She didn’t really show any signs of trying to crawl. Then all of a sudden up she went on her hands and feet, and later on her hands and knees when she finally got herself figured out.  She’s been crawling for a week now and I love it, she does too. Now she is better at entertaining herself for longer, but now she does get into more things. We realllly need to babyproof now.

Hailey is standing while holding on to furniture and cruising now a bit as well. She will walk behind her push toy until she runs into walls or other toys. Then shes down on her bum and crawling away.

Hailey now has her 4th cold. Her last cold lasted 2 weeks, we had 2 weeks off and then BOOM on Sunday we wake up and Hailey has a runny nose and is sneezing. Not fun. It even kept her and me up from 10 pm – almost 4am one night. Not fun at all. Lots of crying and no comfort for poor Hailey.

Naps are still hard. When I put her in the crib there is instant crying. When she quiets down I know it’s not because she’s sleeping but merely because she is crawling around and finding a corner to pull up in. Good thing we lowered her crib before she started pulling up.  I have to go in a couple times lay her down again and wait for her to quiet down then check that she’s sleeping and can basically start the timer for 50 min and she will be up crying for me to rescue her.

She’s babbling like crazy and has added to her repertoire a bit, including ya ya da da sorta sounds.

Some days she loves to eat and others she doesn’t. She will eat almost everything I give her. Now we are introducing egg yolks but she doesn’t really like them.  She loves rice rusks (mum mums) and puffs.

Hailey is now 20lbs 11oz and 28.5 inches long (she’s grown 8 inches since she was born!)

Happy 9 months Hailey!