Madelynn, Claire and Natalee: You are NINE Months Old!

Ummm...who are these NINE month olds I have CRAWLING around my house and terrorizing each other!?! I'm speechless!

Randoms to Start:

You all know your names so well. I just call you and instantly you look at me and smile! My heart always melts, I can't believe you know your names.
You all raise your arms to be picked up when you want to be picked up or you see me coming to get you. Of course kicking your legs and jumping up and down, if your in the exersaucer is always a must, when you see Momma.
You all still love Baby Einstein and we watch it many times a day, but not as much as we used to, you all rather just play now! We have switched to some of the Baby Signing Times and Sesame Street, You all LOVE Sesame Street!!!!!!!
You love to play peek-a-boo, have me sing you songs, read to you, and you love your doggy (and any other doggy) and will laugh at her all day long!

You are all most content in the mornings, after breakfast and in the evening, after dinner.

You all always wake up smiling and I put you all in one crib and get you dressed, singing "Good Morning to you..." You all love it and love seeing each other in the morning!
By far, you all love bath time with Daddy the most or shower-time with Momma.

Natalee:

 

You have made such progress this past month! I can barely believe at the big girl I see before my eyes! You can sit up now. Your by far favorite thing to do these days is to eat your toes and you HATE when Momma put socks on your feet! You are fascinated with them! (and so are your sisters, because they still eat your feet like crazy!!)
And one day, I just gave you a pacifier since we have like a million and you took it and haven't let go of it since! You can't sleep without it and you absolutely just LOVE it! It has made you whine less and all around much happier. I am sorry it took me so long to offer it to you after I thought you were done with it.

You love cheerios and any people food for that matter! You have tried so many things....bread sticks, olives, ice cream, cheese, yogurt, pasta, rice, apple juice, water...and so much more, but I just can't remember, please excuse my pregnancy brain, Natalee, when you read this one day!

Madelynn:

You are crawling everywhere and getting into trouble all day long! You are such a determined child, I swear! Your favorite thing to do is pull up the floor mat, even though I have a blanket over it and another floor rug on top of it, you always pull up all the pieces and managed to pull it apart (since I wrote that, we have changed the whole area, mainly because I was tired of putting it all back together all of the time!!). You are slowly learning the word "no, no" but you have began to throw fits when I move you and then as soon as you are over it, you crawl right back over to the edges of the mat and go at it again....allllllll day loooooong!

You have started arching your back and throwing mad fits when you don't get your way, which is interesting because you are a "quieter" and a little more reserved than your sisters.
You love to smile at ANYONE and everyone always asks if you are always this happy!

You still have the most hair of your sisters.

You are the bully of the bunch, still. You beat up on your sisters alllll day long and I have to save them constantly!

What Mommy? I'm just trying to get over her, she is in my way!!!

You visited the hospital for the first time on Sunday, 9/11/11 for a bladder infection, with a very high fever. Momma and Daddy were very scared but you did great and smiled the whole time!

You are almost holding your bottle, you do it by yourself most of the time, only sometimes needing assistance! You hold your own juice cup just fine.

You sit up and go from sitting to crawling and crawling to sitting, very easily!

Claire:

You said "dada" for the first time while we were at the beach. You say, "dadadadadadadadadada" a million times over. It's so cute.  You babble constantly and are so loud!

You also went through a phase while we were at the beach where you stuck your tongue out consistently. It was so funny and only lasted about a week.

You love taking your socks off and chewing on them.

You hold your bottle all of the time and your juice cup! You are such a big girl!

Growing:

You have grown sooo much! You are all in size 3 diapers and honestly, I don't think it will be long before we are already in size 4 diapers, in fact I have already ordered some via Diapers For Divas!

You size 1 shoes do not fit anymore, so for fall we are moving to size 2-3. You wear shoes every time we leave the house now, unless we are just going to Grandma and Grandpa's across the street!

You are in size 6 month (Natalee) and 9 month (Madelynn and Claire) sleepers.
Your daily outfits are between 6 and 9 months but all of the stuff I am buying for fall is all 9 months and fit all of you fine, but for after your birthday, I'm sure you'll be in 12 months. I am so happy that you girls are finally catching up to your age in your growth! Most of the 6 month stuff is getting too small but since most of it is summer stuff, I am just trying to stretch it through the warmer fall days.

Stats:

At the doctors on Friday for our 9 Month check-up:

Madelynn:

Birth: 3 lbs. 14oz.

9 Months: 15 lbs. 12 oz. (7th percentile)

Birth: 16 1/4 inches

9 Months: 27 inches (25th percentile)

Claire:

Birth: 3 lbs. 14 oz.

9 Months: 16 lbs. 3 oz. (15th percentile)

Birth: 17 inches

9 Months: 27 inches (30th percentile)

Natalee:

Birth: 2 lbs. 13 oz.

9 Months: 13 lbs. 14 oz. (just barely off of the "normal" curve)

Birth: 15 3/4 inches

9 Months: 25 1/2 inches (5th percentile)

Sleeping:

We haven't had to use the "time-out" crib at all this month! Amen! In fact, we have even put it back in the attic, for now, until Little Miss gets closer to arriving!
Natalee, you have been sleeping in your crib, on your belly for naps and have been doing wonderful! You sleep great for at least 2.5 hours! At night, you are still the first, normally to go to bed (or want to go to bed) and you go down great, on your belly and with your paci, it has helped soooo much.

You all go to bed around 7:00pm and sleep until somewhere between 7:00am and 10:00am, it just depends on how many times you wake up during the night. Normally, you each don't wake up more than once, but sometimes twice.

You all love your lovies and will not sleep without them!
We also lowered your cribs to the bottom level since you are all sitting up and were starting to pull on your mobiles.

Eating:

You all eat great! Madelynn, you get 4 ounces of fruit and cereal and a yogurt in the morning, normally between 8:00am-9:00am. Claire and Natalee, you get about 1/2 of a cup of banana oatmeal cereal with about 1/4 cup of fruit mixed in. Madelynn, you still refuse to eat the baby cereal. Natalee, you LOVE your cereal in the morning and scream bloody murder for it each and every day! You open your mouth and grunt like a bird, and it's literally gone within minutes! You are so funny! Madelynn, you are the least interested in breakfast, just like your Momma!
Natalee- you had cheerios for the first time on 9.12.11, and you love love love them, along with any other people food you've had so far! Madelynn, you love cheerios too! Claire, you gag on them in two seconds.
You all LOVE your juice/water! Claire, you will lay on the floor and drink your juice for like 30 minutes. It's so darn cute!!!!!!!

For lunch, around 11:30-12:30pm, you each get about 4 ounces of a veggie and a bottle of about 8 ounces.

Bottle, 8 ounces, around 3:30pm-4:00pm.

Dinner, around 5:00pm-6:00pm, you each get 4 ounces of a veggie w/ some sort of meat, and then a fruit, about 4 ounces of that. Sometimes, if I run out of fruit, I will give you cereal, but normally I just give you cereal in the morning.
Bottle, 8 ounces around 7:00pm, or sometime you go to bed not wanting a bottle and then wake up around 10:00pm to have it, which is fine because I am normally still up then.

Natalee, you love the Baby Mum-Mum Rice Vegetable Rusks. I gave you each one on 09.08.11 and you ate the whole thing in five minutes and your sisters couldn't even get one bite down before gagging. You on the other hand, have no problem! You love them! You do so much better with textured food or real people food than your sisters do. Claire, when you get something on your tongue that has a texture, you stick your tongue out right away and let it fall off. You are so funny!

You all want anything Daddy or I have. Whether it's food or our phones, the remote, a napkin, anything...you want it. You watch us eat and stare at us like you want it all for yourself! I can't wait until we can give you people food all of the time!

I have started also giving you shredded chicken, for the first time this past weekend. It was a rotisserie chicken from Costco and of course Natalee loved it and Madelynn ate it and Claire wanted no parts of it. I shredded the whole chicken and divided it up in bags and froze it for later use.

More Randoms:

This month we did so many fun things!
We went to the beach for the first time! You all LOVED it!
You went to the zoo for the first time on 09.16.11 for the Lockheed Martin Picnic with Momma, Daddy, Gammy, Grandpa, Aunt Christine and Uncle Nate!

You went to your first Poolesville Day on 09.17.11 and everyone was so happy to see you!! You loved watching the parade and all the people walking by all day!!

You went to Smokey Glen Farm to the Shady Grove Fertility Clinic Family Picnic on 09.18.11.
Nana made you fresh applesauce with apples from our favorite market.
We bought your Halloween outfits! :)

You were featured in a Hyundai commercial!

You went to your first Poolesville High School Homecoming Football Game on 09.24.11.

We officially know if you have a brother or a sister coming in January...and, it's a sister!
Mommy has ordered all of your birthday stuff! It's all handmade and going to be gorgeous!!! I am so excited to share details soon!