9 months

New things: she's a super speedy crawler who doesn't let anything get in her way. Baby gates get knocked over (granted we just prop them up at the moment, apparently a short lived moment). She can scooch around the sizes of the gate, crawl over table legs and any obstacle in her path. She CAN crawl up the stairs but we don't encourage it. She likes to pull herself up to standing and can easily get herself back down now. She is able to transition from one piece of furniture to another without basing an eyelash.

Talking/signs: It seems like she's getting close to words.  Lots of repeated sounds: mamama, dadadada, hidere hidere hidere (sounds like "hi there")

Teeth: 3!!! The top left tooth has finally broken through. Recently she discovered that she can rub her top and bottom teeth together and it makes a most "marvelous" sound.  She loves the grinding and repeats it constantly.  The rest of us just cringe. 

Sleeping: She has finally started to sleep  better over night.  She had been taking at least 3 naps a day; 1 in the morning, 1 late afternoon, and 1 in the evening . Then she had been going to sleep around 11 and sleeping through the night til about 6:00/6:30. We've been slowly scooching up the bedtime to about 9:00/9:30 and she is still sleeping until 6:30. Some days we've even been able to find the pacifier at 6:30 and she'll go back to sleep until 7:30 (bonus of all these snow days and sick days.)

Eating/Drinking: We haven't really starred many new foods. She wasn't able to start any new foods while she was taking the amoxicillin last month for the ear infection just in case she had an allergic reaction to the medicine. Then life got really crazy with snow and other people being sick so things were pretty status quo. We did try puffs and she loves being able to feed herself. We've really been working on getting her to drink water. She doesn't love it but she certainly is getting better and will even hold her own sippy cup.

Height/Weight: 18 lbs 6 oz, 29 inches long.