9 Months!

Lily is 9 months old today! I feel like she's really grown up a lot in the past month. According to our home scale she's 15.5 lbs, but I'm not really sure how accurate that is. She is really close to crawling. She can get up on her hands and knees and she's got the leg movement down but can't figure out how to move her arms forward so she ends up falling on her face. Then she alligator crawls from there. But she sure keeps trying! She's also thinking about pulling herself up on things. She does a little baby plank/downward facing dog with her hands up on things. It's pretty cute. She also has two new teeth on the top, making four total. 

And we finally got her a crib. When Lily went on her nursing strike she was sleeping pretty soundly, but was also a little torpedo next to me. Since she's gone back to nursing she is still having moments of squirminess. We were originally going to sidecar it to the bed, but it's not quite the right height, so now it's in the corner of our room. So a couple of nights ago she fell asleep on my lap as usual, and we just laid her down. She woke up a little bit, but after a few minutes she just went back to sleep. And then proceeded to sleep for the next 7 hours. It was glorious. Then she did the same thing the next night. I haven't felt this good since I was 5 months pregnant. Last night she wanted to be in bed with us again and that's fine. We're just playing it by ear. She lets us know when she wants to sleep with us and when she wants to sleep alone. Here's a picture of her in her new digs. 

This afternoon the weather was so glorious we just couldn't stay inside for any length of time. We all went for a run this morning, then grocery shopping, then I took Lily to the park later in the afternoon. I decided to put her in a swing for the first time. She loved it! I just had to take a video of her laughing and squealing the whole time she was in it. I love it when she kicks and crosses her little feet.