9 Months

Maddie is such a good baby-still! She had her wellness visit at the doctor and everything looks good except for her lead levels. Until this I had never even thought about lead in the kids. It read 3.4 which is cause for concern but nothing to worry about? At least that's what the nurse told me. She will need to be retested at her next wellness visit. Researching it, anything under 10 is fine and we all have some amount of lead in our system, but anything above 2 they keep a check on it. So I guess we will see what the level reads in a few months. I had Nate tested too, and he is very low, so no concern at all. She weighs 21 lbs 4 oz (80%) and is 30 inches long (90%). She has five teeth, 2 on bottom and 3 on top. There is another trying to break through the gums for about the last month but just can't seem to. And I noticed that she has a couple more on the bottom that are pushing up against the gums, so it won't be long before she's got a few more.

She goes to bed around 8-9pm and wakes up at 2am and 6am to eat. She gets up for the day around 7-8am, unless Nate wakes her up. The other day he climbed in her crib and woke her up. I guess he was sick of playing by himself. :)

She loves table food and will eat every chance she gets. She's still not a big fan of fruits though. She has stood a few times on her own for a few seconds each time. We're introducing more foods all the time, which she likes because then she's eating the same thing we are. There are times I can't eat in front of her because then she won't eat her jar food.

She is becoming much more vocal. She has said "gaga", "rara", and "dada". No "mama" yet though. And she was babbling those words for a couple days straight and has gone back to her favorite pass time of just blowing raspberries. She is getting loud too. She screams a lot. And loud. It's a happy scream but it is loud! :)