9 months already?

Makenna is 9 months old today. I cannot believe it. How did it happen? It seems it just yesterday I held her in my arms for the first time and cried uncontrollably at the sight of my beautiful baby. It seems it was just yesterday I was changing her first diaper and wondering if she was going to scream like that every single time I changed her diaper. It seems it was just yesterday she gave me her first smile, that Tuesday morning right before I left to go to Mops. It seems it was just yesterday she rolled over on the family room floor while I cheered her on... Now she's crawling everywhere, pulling herself up on everything, and waving hi and smiling at everybody.

I wanted to register some of the things she's been doing lately, so later in life I don't forget when it happened... She started to pull her legs with her arms (kinda like an army crawl) right after she turned 8 months. A couple days later later she was crawling and fast and about week after that she started pulling herself up. That same week she learned to go to a sited position from crawling. She likes to pulls everything from the furniture to the floor so she can play with it. Last Friday, the 12th, we were sitting at the gym with Natalie when I saw her wave for the first time. She hasn't stopped ever since. She also started to eat by herself. She loves using her little fingers to put food (and everything she can find for that matter) in her mouth. Last week she moved into a big girl carseat and I think she likes it because she can see out the window.

On the negative side, girlfriend has been waking up at 5:30 am. We bring her to bed with us and she goes back to sleep. I'm hoping some blackout shades will help that (once I get it!)

Today I saw her doing "wawa" on her own.