She's walking!..Wait...no she's not....Now she is!!!

Thought I'd do a little update on "Baby Adderol" as my mom calls her. Lily Kate is one happy happy baby and she's wired. At 9 1/2 months Miss Slobber started walking. She would walk across an entire room by herself. She was doing this for about a week when she was walking at church and fell completely backwards and hit her head pretty hard. That's when she refused to walk anymore. If you tried to let go of her, she would arch back or plant her feet and not move. If you tried to stand her up, she would completely lift her legs up in the air. In the meantime, she would walk around our house using the walls and furniture as props. Finally, now at 10 months, she started walking again! She'll walk back and forth between Abe and I, across a room following me, or she'll let go and walk to a toy etc. Finally I have a mobile baby!

She weighs 21lbs. 97% percentile for height and 78% for weight.
Her drug of choice: a bottle. I've got her down to three 8 oz. bottles a day. But she would definitely take more if I let her. She's very fickle with her food. She'll eat carrots one day and not the next. Frustrating. I usually have to go through three different food choices, before she'll finally eat one.
Does she crawl? No
Does she pull up? Almost...still needs a little help...have you seen the size of her legs?
For some reason, I don't have the most athletic kids. Weird since I've always considered Abe and I as athletic. But they are both talkers. Lily Kate babbles constantly ALL DAY long. And Elle talks and asks why ALL DAY LONG!

Since she hasn't been crawling like most babies, she's had lots of time to work on other important skills: like waving bye bye, she'll put her blankie over her head and play peek-a-boo. She loves to dance and clap. She LOVES to jump!! on anything! She'll scream really loud when she jumps!
She says mama, dada, bye bye, and Hey- in a deep voice while she puts her arm straight out. She resembles Hitler when she says Hey. She loves when people talk to her. When we're at the store, she'll keep saying hey in her deep hitler voice, till someone stops and talks to her. Then she's all smiles and hides her face in my chest.
More importantly:
Does she tan? Yes, a little bit, but nothing like Elle.
Does she have hair? Not much! It's white blonde and has a little tint of strawberry in the sun.

Lily Kate at 9 1/2 months (before church)

In the meantime, she walks using anything as a prop.



Lily Kate refusing to walk after church.