11 Months Old

Little Monkey

Almost 11 months old!  Where did the time go?!  Sophia is a ball of energy!  She’s nonstop crawling, climbing, standing, and maybe almost walking.  She’s like a little monkey when it comes to climbing.  She climbs the stairs, she’ll try to climb up onto the couch to grab something that she wants (usually the TV remote), she’ll try to climb up the side of the bathtub to reach for something inside the tub (and actually, she does it well enough where she can fall into the tub if I’m not there to pull her back), she’ll try to climb out of the pack n play (or into it like the picture below) and she'll even climb the laundry basket to get her beloved blankie.  If you are near her during one of her climbing adventures, she’ll actually use you as a stepping block to get to where she wants to go.

  

Some “tricks” that Sophia has learned to do pretty well in the past couple months include your standard hi (she waves her arm up and down) and bye (she opens and closes her hand, although it seems like she’s saying bye to herself!).  She can give “fly kisses” aka “fay mun” and does “deem choong choong”.  She’ll clap when you ask her to…she’ll also clap if you ask her if she wants more of something – that’s her version of sign language for “more”.  She’ll put her hand over her mouth when I ask her to say thank you (suppose to be on her chin, but that’s close enough) and she’ll pat her chest when I ask her to say please (suppose to be a circular motion, but that seems to be a lot of coordination for a baby!).  If you ask her to give you a kiss, she’ll open up her mouth and put it to your face and then make her version of a kissing sound “ooh-WAH!  She's also very chatty when she wants to be.  "mum, mum, mum" seems to be her favorite words - which means she wants to eat!  She LOVES eating.  Especially anything we're eating.

She also loves her big brother.  At night when I put them down for bed, she likes to go roll around in his bed and play with him for a little bit first.  She rolls all over him and plays with some of his toys and books.  In the morning, she usually wakes up before he does.  When I get her out of her crib and walk by him, she smiles and gets excited when she sees him, even if he's still sleeping.  I love that she loves him so much.  Hope it stays that way!!

10 Months Old

9 Month Check Up

Weight: 18lb 15.5oz (54%tile)
Height: 27.5in (49%tile)

Getting Ready to Cruise and First Words!

This is ALL she does now when I put her down on the floor.  I have a feeling she'll be walking before her first birthday! 

And before I know it, she'll be waving "bah bah bah" as she runs away from me!  Sometimes she'll also say "bah bah bah bah" as she opens and closes her hand.  She also waves "hi" and says/screams "aaaaaaayyyyeeee" but I have yet to catch that on camera.  Also not caught on camera are her first words!  I think it was bah bah - I'm not sure if it was part of her "bye bye" or if she was calling for dad. But I also heard her clearly say "ma ma" this week!  She's growing up too fast!

Olympic Crawler?

Do they have crawling in the olympics?  Because if they did, I think she might make the cut! =)

Also noteworthy is that she now has 4 teeth on top!

8 Months Old

Weight: 19lbs

At 8 months old, Sophia's hit many milestones/experienced many new things.  She's mastered "army" crawling and can crawl over and under most obstacles to get to where she wants to get she wants.  When she comes to a stop, she gets into the real crawling position, but doesn't seem quite ready to crawl on her hands and knees yet.  Maybe she feels army crawling is sufficient enough for her purposes?!  All I know is that she's fast.  If I don't dress her quickly enough after bath time, she likes to make a quick get away!

 

There are two places where she will sit still.  One place is on the grass.  It will probably take her some time to get use to the prickly feeling of the grass on her soft skin.  The second place is in the stroller.  She's almost to the point of outgrowing her carseat carrier so we decided to buy a double stroller.  Normally, we would have her sit in the front part of the stroller (where Matthew is sitting in the picture below), but since we had the stroller inside the house right after we assembled it, we just put her in the back to take a picture.  However, she seemed just as happy sitting in the back as she was sitting in the front.  It's most likely because she gets a better view of the world when she gets to sit up in the stroller!

At 8 months, Sophia has 4 teeth.  Poor girl had to experience the pain of the top teeth coming out at the same time that she contracted hand, foot and mouth disease.  She ran a fever for a few days and then her body broke out into rashes.  I think she also had one or two sores in her mouth, one of which was right by the top tooth that is popping out. 

At 8 months, she also got to feel sand between her toes, as well as the wind blowing through her hair - well the few hairs that she has. =)  I think she liked both since she didn't cry in either instance.  She was actually smiling at some point during her swing ride, but we just didn't capture a picture of it.  She also shakes her head from side to side when we say "no, no, no, no", will use her right hand to bang on whatever is in front of her when we say "dup, dup, dup" (hit in chinese), and sometimes we'll get an arm wave when we say "hi".  Can't wait to see this little sponge soak up everything she sees/hears in the next couple of months!