9 months

Showing off her dimple.


For our activity/treat part of FHE we had an OREO eating contest. Vanessa won for getting more on her face than in her mouth.


Playing with David's book and Veronica's stuff...such a cutie!

So Vanessa is 9 months today. Just thought I'd document her achievements so far. Little Vanessa is a speedy crawler and has finally mastered the crawl and sit move. For a while there she would just crawl around but never knew how to sit from a crawl position...she would kind of wait there until someone noticed and sat her on her tush. Anyway, her favorite move is to take off to the stairs and as she's making her way towards the first step she'll throw me a glance that says, "Come and get me mom!" She hates whenever it's time for a diaper change, which is why it's like a wrestling match just to put on a clean diaper. Her favorite food is anything that isn't from a jar. She really likes chomping on pizza crust. It seems like all her teeth came in around the same time. Right around January I started noticing the tops coming in and they are all mostly in now, about 5 1/2 on top and 2 on the bottom. Vanessa gets scared easily yet loves it when Veronica carries her around, which scares me! She's undeniably a daddy's girl. Come 6pm, when Jeff usually comes home, she's very irritable and unhappy but as soon as she hears the front door open she knows daddy's home and only wants him. It's nice...but if he's home later than that she's a little nightmare to deal with. She's almost been out longer than she was in.

David's birthday is in 3 weeks and I will officially have a 5, 3 and almost 1 year old.