nine months and three to go

well averie's eighth month has come and gone and i have zero intention of recording it.  it's not that i don't want to have every months milestones recorded somewhere, i just honestly don't remember what happened, what she did, you know the important things.  life has just gotten in the way of all that.  it's hard to find time to sit down and think about those things let alone actually have a quiet moment to sit at the computer reminiscing.  ha.  quiet moment.  anyone with multiple children ever have these mythical quiet moments?  that would be in some fantasy world right?  right.  i did however manage to get a sort of "quiet moment" and took some photos of averie girl while liam was napping.  um yeah, my almost three year old still naps.  perhaps this fantasy world does exist, in some form anyway.

nine month milestones

~ waves hi and good-bye, love love loves to clap

~ she loves to play peekaboo and it's super cute, managed to get her on video a few times

~ she's crawling all over the place, still mostly army style but full on crawl when she's on the carpet

~ learning to stand and pulling herself up ... on everything

~ loves to babble and "talk" to us.  current vocabulary consists of dada, da-dee, and mmmmmmmm

~ we still only have the two bottom teeth, with her top right starting to cut through now

~ wearing 6-9 and 6-12 month clothing, as well as size three diapers

~ unfortunately for me averie is still up twice a night to nurse and lately it's been more.  there have definitely been some struggles in the sleep department with this little one.  

~ eating has gotten a lot better.  her current favourites are cheese, cantaloupe, banana and cheerios.  she's starting to give meat a chance, but it's usually hit and miss and she's not a veggie girl unlike her brother.

~ averie loves to make faces, especially scrunching up her nose and shaking her head "no"

~ her favourite toy is her lamb-ie and when she won't settle at night she'll grab not him and snuggle

~ she absolutely refuses to wear socks or shoes.  this one kinda sucks because she has some super cute shoes.

~ she wants to play with whatever liam has and do whatever liam is doing.  she's totally gonna be his shadow.  and for the most part like a quarter of the time, liam doesn't mind.  the other three quarters he freaks out and tells her "no averie"

~ and last, but not least, averie had the chicken pox this month.  yup three month shy of her twelve month vaccinations containing the chicken pox vaccine.  she had a relatively mind case, but it still sucked.  poor girl.

i can't believe that in three short months our baby girl will be a year old.

not only that, but my maternity leave will be over.

i am looking forward to going back to work.

let's face it, being a teacher has it's perks, especially when you are a parent.  

i have every major holiday and summer vacation to look forward to with both our littles.

but ...

there is still a part of me that longs to be with both my kids.

all day.

every day.

love you my little nine month-er.

always.