Before Christmas our sweet little Haven hit her 9-month-old mark! It seems unreal to me that we have been blessed with this precious girl for 9 whole months!
Your smile lights up a round beautiful girl! When someone smiles at you, you quickly return it with a smile that shines through your eyes. Right now you have two sweet little teeth glistening in the front of your bottom gums that show when you smile big, which is just about every time. Your eyes have turned into a beautiful dark brown, much like your Daddy's. Your hair is coming in fuller and getting darker although I can still see hints of auburn when the light hits it. I am still holding out for it to be the color of your Nana's.
You love to eat sweet Haven girl! Everything and anything you can get your hands on. We have to be very careful about what is within reach of you these days because before we know it you will have a handful of Salsa, beans or whatever is at your level. You have been eating a lot more table food lately rather than baby food and enjoying all of it. Mashed Potatoes and beans have been your favorite although you recently tore up some guacamole as well. Cheerios are a new hit with you and you have also tried gnawing on some animal crackers and most recently some noodles!
For the past month you have been waking up around 4 AM every morning. I thought you were probably teething and finally just before Christmas I felt two teeth coming in on the top right side of your gums. You had been extremely fussy the two days before, very unlike you, and I was finally able to get you to let me feel around for a minute in your mouth. Once the teeth broke through you have been back to sleeping from when we put you down at 8:30 PM to about 8:30 AM. It is wonderful!! You also take a 2-3 hour nap during the afternoons. Sometimes you fight taking a nap but need a little one in the evenings of mid morning if you have woken up early. Chris Stapleton's song Tennessee Whisky is an automatic way to get you to immediately calm your self and close your eyes. Your Dad began playing you this song as soon as you were born and it has stuck ever since. It is a treat to get to rock you to sleep and hold you in my arms at night little love. You just stare up at me with those big beautiful eyes until you can’t keep them open any longer. During the day I don't for naps we usually just lay you in your crib where you cuddle with your bunny and blanket and drift quickly off to sleep. Your most favorite position to sleep in is on your tummy with your bottom up in the air. We had to lower your mattress down as low as we could because you are now an expert at pulling yourself up on things and would pull yourself up standing in your crib!
Haven you want to be where the activity is. As I walk from room to room during the day doing housework you quickly follow crawling quickly behind. You are so fast! If you are in your walker and the carpet stops you then you immediately whine until I get you. You do not like to be alone.
For such a sweet little girl nothing at all scares you. You are fearless. Uncle Patrick was recently here with his big lab dog Whitten and although your older brother liked to view Whitten through a glass door you would go right up to him and let him lick all over you. You crawl to pull yourself up on everything. I am constantly worried about you falling and hitting your head on something you have fearlessly climbed to.
We just came back from your 9 month wellness check-up with Dr. Fletcher. He told us you are absolutely perfect and ahead of the curve developmentally! You freaked out when he tried to listen to your heart with this stethiscope... he said well this is a little early for her to be acting like this but that just means she is ahead of the game. Your brother immediately started crying with you as a form of sibling solidarity. Haven you weighed in at 21 lbs exactly putting you in the 75-90%, you were 29 inches putting you in the 90% and your head was 18 inches also putting you in the 90%.
You are babbling a lot more but you are still shouting "Dada" above everything else. I am working so hard to get you to say Mama but nothing yet! Haven you are doing amazing discovering with your hands. You are so quick to turn things around and switch them from hand to hand. Your pacifier is the first thing you learned to do this with and I watch you as you still do it lying in your crib.
Haven Molly my dreams of what a daughter would be like are nothing compared to the joy and happiness you have already brought your Dad, brother and I. We all adore you to the moon and back! Love you sweet sweet girl!
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