9 Month Update

Lexi had her 9 month checkup yesterday. No shots this time so it was pretty easy. Here are her stats:

Height: 28inches (65th percentile)
Weight: 18lbs 14oz (50th percentile)
Head: 45cm (80th percentile)

As you can see she still has a huge head and she's definitely getting tall!

Here's a few things she's been up to the past few months:

1. Crawling - She finally started army crawling around 8 months. And now she is starting to crawl with her belly off the ground. She's getting really fast and crawling all over the place.

2. Pulling herself to standing - Lexi has always had strong little legs and before she started crawling she was beginning to pull herself to standing (with a little help). Now she can pull herself to standing from a complete sitting position and it seems like she's so close to standing up without holding onto anything. Occasionally she will stand for 2 to 3 seconds on her own.

3. Teeth - At about 6 months she got her first two teeth, bottom middle. She's now sprouted two more on the bottom, two on the top and two more are peeking through on the top. So by the end of this month, she'll have 8 teeth!

4. Table food - With 8 teeth I figured it was time for her to start eating table food. We had tried a little here and there before but she would always leave it on her tongue and start gagging. We kept trying and she's gotten pretty good at it. So far she's had watermelon, chicken, rice, potato, corn, peas, broccoli, and carrots...oh and ice cream :-) I'm still feeding her baby food, but I will usually give her a little of whatever I'm eating too. She definitely seems to like all the new tastes!

5. Separation anxiety - Within the last month or so I've noticed Lex has been very attached, particularly to me. If I walk out of the room she will start to whimper. She's done this a lot lately when I drop her off at daycare. This of course makes it extremely difficult to leave her in the mornings :-( It seems like she's been getting a little better this past week. It's good to know she loves me but I also don't want her to cry every time I walk away!

6. Drinking out of a straw - We started Lexi on a sippy cup a couple of months ago and she did pretty good with it, but sometimes she'd just chew on it. This past weekend we were out to dinner and we tried having her drink from a straw. To our surprise she was able to do it right off the bat!

I'm sure there's so much more I'm forgetting, but that's all I can think of for now!

Bloomington pit-stop

On our way home from Chicago on Sunday we made a quick pit-stop in Bloomington to get some Great Wall chinese food. Since they weren't open yet we decided to stop by Tipton park. Lexi had never been on the swings or slide before. She just loved it though as you can see from the video and pictures! This will definitely be part of our summer fun this year!



Brian also took her down the slide a few times and played on the jungle gym. She had such a blast and I think Daddy did too :-)

Swimming!

While we were in Chicago we stayed at a hotel that had an indoor pool. I was really excited to take Lexi swimming for the first time. Here we are getting ready to go to the pool.

I took her in first and she wasn't phased by the water at all. She loves bath time so I wasn't really surprised. She had fun with Daddy splashing and swimming around! Here's a video of her 'swimming'. I can't wait to take her in the pool when we go to Florida in May!

Shedd Aquarium

This past weekend we took a mini-vacation to Chicago. We thought it would be fun to take Alexa to Shedd Aquarium. We left Saturday morning and Lex did sooo good on the way up. She slept the entire time! When we got to Chicago we had the best weather! It was sunny and beautiful! We walked around and looked at all the different exhibits. Lex watched a few of the fish and other sea animals but she seemed more interested in all the people! Here's a pic of her looking at some fish with Daddy.


Just outside of Shedd is Lake Michigan and an amazing view of the city. We had attempted to take a family pic inside, but as you can see Lex decided to grab my boob. We made a second attempt with the great view but Lex wasn't really interested in looking at the camera. She was trying to get her sunglasses off!


Overall we had a great time at the aquarium but I think Lexi would have been just as happy sitting around people watching! I think we'll wait another year or so before taking her to anything like this again so that she can enjoy it more!

Somebody loves ice cream!

Something about the warm weather always makes Brian and I want ice cream. We stopped at Culvers tonight and I got an Oreo concrete mixer (similar to a blizzard). I gave Lex a few bites and she loved it! She had some Oreo crumbs on her face so I had to snap a few pics. I'm sure ice cream isn't good for her but oh well!

Happy Easter!

Lexi had a great first Easter! She was a little grumpy though because she didn't get a good night's sleep on Saturday. Overall she did pretty good though! I think her teeth are bothering her a little. She has four that have popped through on the bottom and four are popping through on the top! The Easter bunny came to visit her but he visited a little early :-) I couldn't wait to give her some of her gifts! Here's a few pics of her with her Easter basket.

One of her gifts was this walker/car. She isn't a huge fan of the walker yet and just stands there holding onto it, but she LOVES to ride around in the car. Here's some pics of her on the car.


I tried to get some pics of her sitting in her dress but she's so fast at crawling now by the time I got ready to take the picture she had already crawled over to me! Here are my attempts at taking her picture.