What am I talking about??? Why months silly!
The 8 and 9 month milestones have now passed for our dear little Aleah.
Sadly enough, I said I wouldn't do it again, but I did.
I neglected to get her 8 month update done before she reached 9 months...just as I did with months 5 and 6.
So here it is...a post for months 8 and 9 for our dearest, sweet Aleah Lynn!
Aleah Lynn
Eight Months Old
9-7-11
-made her first trip to NE with just Natalie and Mommy...Daddy was busy harvesting so he couldn't make the trip.
-mastered the crawl. Her version is a bit different in the fact that one of her knees never touches the ground.
-uses this so-called 'crawl' to climb up the stairs from the family room to living room.
-spent her first Sunday in the nursery at church during the Sunday morning worship service.
-met her first set of dorm kids, from all over the U.S. and world.
-Can pull herself up to her knees and then to her feet using whatever is within reach.
Miss Aleah Lynn
Nine Months Old
10-7-11
-can give herself her own bottle...she's getting to be so independent.
-has also mastered the sippy cup, especially when seated right next to her big sister and she has that 'I want to be just like her' feeling! :)
-no longer needs to use the baby food grinder. We cut everything up for her in tiny pieces and she is figuring out how to chew.
-has taken her first 'winter wheat seeding meal' out to the field to the guys. Nothing better than homemade chili and cinnamon rolls on a COLD 55 degree harvest day!
-took in her first parade..GHS's Homecoming Parade.
-and Natalie gained a 'big sister' for a few months. Nicole Klaessig moved in with us from the dorm.
-met her second cousins Xavier and Kate Nasner for the first time.
-spent a lot of trips to the mailbox behind mom in the 'gently used' two-seat bike trailer she and Natalie were given by the wonderful Iman family.
-popped through her top two teeth. What an adorable smile now!
-crawls around at top speeds, standing up to furniture with ease.
-enjoys blessing us with her ear-deafening high pitched screams of excitement. WOW! They get really intense when she and Natalie both get going!
-says 'Dada'. Sadly though, it is not for her Daddy, it is just a sound she is learning to make.
-imitates many of the sounds we make.
-is very curious about other people's faces, and loves to grab at them.
-had her first overnight foreign guests from LCHS stay the night. What a fun time we had with MJ (Thailand) and Sarah (China).
