My Growing Girl

As much as I've tried to stop it, sweet Addie is still growing up! She will be 9 months old this week. I keep thinking back to last summer when I was huge and pregnant, couldn't bend over, and my poor feet looked like... I don't know what, just fat. And now she's here, and everywhere! Healthy as a horse, happy, talkative, smiley, funny, inquisitive, loud, into everything, crawling, and the love of our lives.

She has started crawling very well this week, today better than ever. For the first time, she has crawled to me in another room. I had her in our room and I was in the laundry room. She was fussing a little and a minute or so later, there she was, with the biggest smile of accomplishment you have ever seen! She's gotten hurt more in the past two days than ever before - bonking her head, bumping into things, etc., nothing scary thankfully! Yet, all that comes with being more mobile and curious. She's learning the word "No!" very quickly, and doesn't care much for it!

Today was bittersweet for me. Tommy's been pushing me to put Addie's baby-baby things away (swing - although so many kids still love it at this age - not ours, bouncey seat, Moses basket - yes it was still out, but now used as a toy bin!, and her teeny tiny clothes.), but I just couldn't do it and found every excuse in the world not to. However, I decided to put MY big girl panties on and we took care of it this afternoon. Our living room looks so nice, but there's a few big holes where things used to be!

To be so very, very, very thankful for the health of our angel girl, I still can't help but miss those sweet days of holding her all day long. See - that does NOT rotten a child and those are days that can never, ever be replaced. I am so thankful that I went with my heart and not the advice of some, and held my sweet baby as often as I wanted!

So, that being said, I pulled out some new toys for Addie, since we put some old ones away. Here are a few videos of her enjoying her new things. In the first two videos, I love how I would stack the toys up and she'd tirelessly take them off! Too cute! The last video is her attemping to climb/pull up on me.