9 month appointment

Annabelle had her 9 month appointment and she is 16 lbs 5 oz and 26 inches long. Still in the 10th percentile...so she is small like her parents. The good news is... she is socially at 12 months. Right now she is sick, sick, sick. Which is so sad because we have such a cute Halloween costume for her that she may not even be able to wear out. She has a fever at 101 and runny nose. We are hoping this goes away soon. At these times when Annabelle and I are sick I wonder how anyone can deal with more than 1 child. Lucky for me I have a wonderful husband who stayed up with Annabelle from 1-4am while I slept, so I could catch up on some sleep.

I'm placing my order...

So Annabelle has decided that crawling is not the BEST method of travel so how about walking. No, she's not yet to the point of walking by herself but she is able to stand alone and take a step, she LOVES walking with her Fisher Price walker thingy by herself. :) I mean she just started scooting. Can our genius baby really start walking at 9 months??? Well I'm told she still might take a few more months to get hang of walking by herself or a few weeks.

We will take walking at 11 months please...

This is how Annabelle crawls.

This is how Annabelle would like to get around. Thanks Emily for the walker!

Did you notice the Aloha shirt??? We are getting her ready for Hawaii! :)

Too Funny...

While at the library today I was standing behind a lady whose daughter was around 18 months and Annabelle and the girl were looking at each other. Annabelle was waving at her daughter trying to say hi and the lady was SO IMPRESSED. She told me that Annabelle was a genius and we should take her and get her tested in a year. I smiled and said thanks, but she was persistent and kept telling me babies shouldn't know how to wave so soon and use it in a proper situation. Well ofcourse Annabelle is genius baby...I mean look at her parents :) So tonight I got my BabyCenter update and lo and behold it says...

IT'S A FACT: By 8 months, most babies can learn sign language, whether formalized signs or simple gestures, such as waving "bye-bye."

Well it's OK to be normal...Right? :)

So onto the other info. Annabelle is on the move...she scoots though. It's the funniest thing she keeps her left leg on the ground and moves forward with her right leg and moves her left leg up to her right. She's getting quick though. She is so interested in standing and walking with help. She LOVES to walk around holding onto our fingers. She can't pull up onto things yet...but I think she's almost there. What happened to my baby?

Annabelle clapping!!! (our genius baby)

Annabelle in her "Pooh" oufit. Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Lawyer!

My canning effort. I canned around 40 jars of applesauce, peaches and apple pie filling. Next time I need a real kitchen.

Plucking sunflower seeds from a sunflower and making yummy salted sunflower seeds was fun! Annabelle was my little helper!

So far in September...

I have been so busy with work I haven't even thought about updating our blog. So here goes... Well a paper Brent wrote got accepted to the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. So we are going to Hawaii in January. I am so excited. Annabelle is learning about her voice right now. We get to deal with lots and lots of screams. It's not very fun because she doesn't know what "We don't scream" means or even what "No" means. So she screams a lot. She can say mama, wow and do some clapping and waving. Which is quite cute. She is starting to crawl...backwards. Which she is frustrated by, because I think, she thinks the toy is moving away from her instead of her moving away from the toy. She can scoot around and stand for couple of seconds on her own. As for me, I am done working for a little while which means Brent gets the computer back and I can get back to reading and going to the library and going on walks. (and of course updating our blog.)

Here are some pictures of Annabelle a professional took while she was babysitting Annabelle. (the first time Annbelle has been left with anyone outside of family) Thanks Brittany!!! And you to can get some wonderful photo's done by Brittany if you go to http://www.photographybybrittany.com/