9 Months Old

Kyla is now 9 months old, it is really hard to believe how fast she is growing. She is such a fun little girl. She has so much energy and is constantly on the go. She is getting much better at walking, she can now walk all the way across the room at times and even stops to take a little break before walking more. She has also got much faster at crawling, it is amazing how fast she can move. She has recently learned how to wave bye bye, clap her hands and is now talking much more. She loves to try to copy what you are saying. She is great at saying "Hi", "Bye Bye", "Mama", "Dada" and "Baa Baa". She also thinks that it is fun to shake her head no when she is done eating or does not want to do something, I think she learned this from watching her cousin Taylor while we were in Seattle. It is hard to believe how fast a baby can learn so many new skills, we love watching her learn and grow everyday and are always so excited to see what she is going to do next.

Another big thing that Kyla has just started doing is putting herself to sleep at night without being cuddled and rocked. When we were in Hawaii Matt and Tiffany introduced us to this great little projector/sound machine and it has worked so good for Kyla. She would now prefer to lay in her crib listening to music and watching the images on the wall than being cuddled at bedtime. She is now putting herself to sleep in 15 minutes or less without even crying. We are so happy with her sleeping habits, besides putting herself to sleep, she also sleeps through the night almost every night. Kyla is such a great baby. Everyday we are so thankful for having such a happy, healthy, beautiful and fun daughter.

We are finally having warm beautiful weather and all of our snow is starting to melt. We have now finally been able to get outside more and go for walks around the neighborhood. We have such great trails in Park City for walking/jogging and are having fun getting Kyla out.

I am back at work this week after having the past 3 weeks off. It was so nice having all that time off and spending so much time with Kyla. Now that I am back at work we are going to be short an infant teacher until the end of the school year on most days, so I will be spending many of my days at work with her in the infant room. I am so lucky to be able to work and spend so much time with Kyla, I really cannot think of a better job for me at this time. Kyla was happy to be back in the day care and see other babies. Over the past 3 weeks the other 4 babies in the daycare seemed to have grown so much. It is so amazing how fast babies change. Her friend Claire who is 4 months old has been colicky and is now so happy and alert. Another one of her friends, Bailey, who is 6 months old is now bigger than Kyla. It is so much fun to see a baby develop so many new skills in such a short time and see their personalities come through. Each baby in Kyla's daycare has such a distinct temperment and personality from one another.

Kyla went in to the Doctor for her 9 month check up yesterday. She is now 29 1/4 inches tall which is the 90% for height. She is 17 pounds and 4 ounces which is the 25% for weight, so she continues to be tall and skinny. Her head circumference is 40%. The Doctor said that she is very healthy and has mastered all of the skills that she would expect her to do by now plus more. We always knew that we had a strong girl and she has proven that to us by how active and involved she is in everything. We just hope she gets a little more balanced on her feet soon so that we don't have to deal with so many falls and so much crying during all of her attempts to walk.

Below I have two short videos, one of her crawling and one walking.