Tonight, I am sitting atop Mount Crumpit, writing a blog entry while sitting on the porch and listening to U2 play live at the local stadium. (woohoo!) Nine months ago today, my bean was born. This month she has proven to surprise us even more and she continues to learn and grow.

At today’s doc appointment, she weighed in at 19 lbs and 14 oz. She is steady within the 75thish percentile. She is 28 1/4 inches talk and her head is 18 1/2 inches around.

She is wearing 9 month clothes, who knows what size shoes and since it is fall, she is wearing cold weather clothes. In honor of the AZN… “she looks so cute”

Not sure how it happened, but two of her fingernails are being pealed from the back. The doc said it looked like they were smashed and damaged and it will just take several months for them to grow out. Looks like it would hurt, but doesn’t seem to bother her, so I will try not to worry.

This month she has learned:

- Her ninja crawling skills have been mastered and she is picking up speed.

- She is walking along furniture with proficiency

- She has discovered that she can bounce all by herself, while holding on to something. The bouncy chair (the VERY loud bouncy chair) served as good training for this new (quieter) skill.

- She can stand by herself (for about a second, but it is being done)

- She passes toys between hands and knocks down blocks like a champ.

- She ate an oat puff without gagging

- She can now eat anything other than honey, egg whites and peanuts.

- She has several new faces -  “Oh”, “oooh”, a Brett Micheals lip pucker face, pout (she has a helluva bottom lip as it turns out). Of course she is still smiling, laughing and frowning.

- Separation anxiety has set in. She likes “D” (her daycare provider), and a very select few others.

- New favorite game is dropping things on the ground and saying “oh” or “ooh”

- When she is done eating, she shakes her head “no”

There are so many changes all the time. We have continued to take at least one picture per day (most days we take several). We watch in awe as she explores the world around her and wonder with excitement what she will discover next.