Three Quarters of a Year!

Stats from her 9 month appointment:

Height: 29.25 in 95th percentile

Weight: 21lbs 10oz 90th percent

Head: Still off the charts

This is an exciting development. Taryn used to always be in a higher precentage for weight than height... This month, that has finally changed! She is so long and lanky now. (Ok, not really.) This has been a bit of a rough month for Taryn. She got hit by another cold, and with her asthma, that turns into a huge illness. She just went to the allergist on Thursday and got some medication, and they seem to be helping. She also has 3 teeth coming in at once which is not fun. Right now on the top of her mouth, she has the two teeth on the left side of her mouth, but none on the right. She's like a jack-o-lantern! Taryn has perfected her butt scoot, but still will not crawl. She scoots with her legs to the right, then swings them around and scoots with her legs to the left. It works for her though. Especially on the wood floors! She walks around the furniture constantly. Her goal is usually to get over to where I am sitting so she can hang onto my legs and whine at me. I can put her on the other side of the room and before I know it she has side-stepped all the way over to me. She has discovered that it is amazingly fun to open drawers and pull cans off of the shelf in the kitchen. She especially loves the end table drawer. One day she got into that drawer and had a pocket knife in one hand and the DVD remote control in the other. Yeah, we need to get that drawer baby-proofed. When Taryn is healthy, she now sleeps from 7pm until 5:30am. She fights naps pretty hard, but when we get her to go to sleep, she usually sleeps pretty well. Her hair just started getting darker all of the sudden. It is long enough that we can put it up in one spiky little ponytail on top of her head a la Pebbles. The back of her hair is getting long and right now it is growing into a little baby rattail. We bought Taryn some new shoes... And she HATES them. Whenever we put her in shoes she whines and tries to pull them off. I think part of the reason she hates them is that they hinder her scooting. There are now a few kiddos at daycare that are younger than Taryn. They told me the other day that she was being a bully. They said that she would scoot over to people and pull their hair. She loves to shake her head "NO". She also likes to brush her teeth (as you can see above). Her eating has slowed down quite a bit. The doc said this is normal since they are not growing as quickly now. She prefers eating "big people food". My mom made some mac & cheese and Taryn was obsessed. We couldn't get it on her plate fast enough. She was literally eating it with both hands and just shoving it in her mouth.

It is hard to believe that she has now been out here in the real world as long as she was growing in the womb (since pregnancy seemed like an eternity). We're looking forward to warmer weather so Taryn can explore our yard and check out the local swimming pool. I can't believe that next month is double digits and that first birthday is right around the corner. She is definitely bordering on toddler right now and while it's a little sad that she's not my little baby anymore, she is such a fun little girl, I can only look forward to what is to come... (Minus, ya know, the terrible twos and the teenage years!)