a crawl at a time. Amelia is finally moving forward - albeit not yet in a traditional crawl. She is also trying to stand but we don’t keep enough things around the right height to practice. 
Enjoy this very short video.
Kelly
By my friend Amanda - so here goes…
What I was doing 10 years ago…
Finals for junior year, about to move to Austin for a summer internship - fabulous summer! I turned 21 and just loved Austin - didn’t care for the job so much but that’s okay.
5 things on my to-do list today…
5 snacks I enjoy…
5 things I would do if I were a billionaire…
5 bad habits…
5 places I’ve lived… (only five??)
Others - Durham, NC for school, Montgomery, TX during college summer break, Sugarland, TX, Austin, TX for internships, Tampa, FL for 3 months for PwC Training…
5 jobs I’ve had…
And now at Turner Broadcasting….
TAG! Now YOU are it…
Well we were supposed to head up to Louisville to introduce Amelia to her greatgrandfather and tons of cousins, and it was going to be great. But instead, we celebrated Amelia’s 9 month birthday getting her first ear infection - so with a 102 fever it was off to the doctor for some antibiotics instead of the car ride up to KY. Hopefully we’ll make it soon, we were really looking forward to it. She’s doing much better today, lots of good naps and some meds. Here’s another pic from her 9 month shot we did. Just a fun foot shot.
Kelly
Dearest Amelia-bug,
You are nine months old today - time flies! Next week we get your official stats from the doctor, looking forward to that. You seem to be getting longer but staying the same weight, thinning out a bit. We’ll see what they say, thankfully its a shot free appointment so I don’t have to see you hurt.
It seems like you’ve hit a lot of milestones this month - you continue to sign for milk (though you use it for all forms of eating), your babbling has increased and you’ve said ‘dada’ and maybe even ‘mama’ - without knowing what you were saying but soon you will. You are trying your best to crawl, rocking on your hands and knees and going backwards. You can pull up if you have the right support - though we aren’t encouraging that. And it seems like I was just thinking you’d eat stage 2 food forever when you started eating your puffs and really anything I try and give you. Even asparagus! Once we have your 9 month appointment we’ll think about letting daycare give you food as well - apparently you tried to steal someone else’s graham cracker yesterday - silly girl.
Your sleeping patterns have settled down a bit - typically a shorter morning nap, a longer afternoon nap and sleeping from 8pm - 6 or 7 am. You’ve just started going all night as long as you have your paci - no more losing it at night. We’ll have to fight the paci battle at another point because sleeping through the night is wonderful.
We have suddenly started seeing little tantrums from you this past week - you get very upset if someone takes what you are playing with - whether it be a toy at daycare or the floor mat that isn’t really a toy. Hopefully this will soon pass, because its heart breaking to see you start crying and throw yourself backwards, no matter where you are. I don’t want to see you hurt!
You’ve continued to show a social nature - you love other babies, and had a great time with friends and your cousin coming over to play. You really enjoy the bigger kids, just giggling away when you saw both Alex and Ellory this month.
I am loving this age as you become more interactive, and as you explore and hit milestones. But I also love my baby girl cuddles - some of my favorite moments are when you snuggle up and take a nap with me on the couch or you rest your head against my cheek. I have to say I’m also a big fan of the wiggle dance you’ve picked up - whether it be happiness while eating in your high chair, or while playing with the strings on your pants - too adorable. I also love the happy wiggles when we come to wake you up in the morning and you are so excited to see us.
I saw a 5 week old baby (baby Mary Kate) out in her stroller the other day, and I have trouble remembering you being that tiny - it seems like years ago, not 8 months ago. Don’t grow up too fast on me, okay? I’m trying to enjoy each and every stage and you are always my baby girl.
Love,
Mom
Here is some video sliced together from Amelia playing with her cousin Lena today - Lena is about 6 weeks older. What you can’t see, but you can hear, is Benji (Lena’s dad) playing Guitar Hero (III) against Chris. So there is some interesting musical accompianment to the video. Also, Lena is crawling around quite well, and Amelia was trying so hard to follow but was mostly still stuck. Instead we noticed she is practicing standing pretty hard - who knows, she may walk instead!
Next weekend we’ll be taking Amelia up to meet her great grandfather and 2nd and 3rd cousins galore - should be fun! I think Amelia is the 17th of 18 great grandchildren, with most of them living in Louisville where we will be visiting. We are looking forward to it.
Baby Momma
We got a new camcorder last weekend, and now I’m testing out different video editors. I think I really liked the Sony Vegas - here is my effort from earlier this afternoon. Just a random selection of Amelia put to music.
Updated: Question for fellow bloggers/Internet users - I used a song from my personal iTunes library - ‘When in Rome’ by Nickle Creek - for the background for Amelia’s video, which is for personal use only. I won’t submit it to any contest, etc, but I do have Google ads on my site. What is the legal side of this? As long as its for personal use is it allowed? I want to make sure I’m doing it right. Thanks for any comments about this.
Kelly
Amelia ate avacado at lunchtime today - just smushed up - those of you blog readers might remember her earlier reaction to it - ewww! This time, no problem. Last night she also suprised me by grabbing on to me and standing up - yes pulling herself up - today her crib gets lowered. Its a fun time around here - hopefully we’ll get some good pictures in the awesome weather.
Kelly
In honor of it being springtime, I thought I’d repost pictures of Miss Amelia as she plays with her Nonni and her first pinwheel and as she takes her first swing on a swing set- to me these are very much spring-time images.
Enjoy!
I am a few days late for this - but Crazy Hip Blog Mommas asked us moms what gets us through the day….
Right now, the mornings are just a routine on auto-pilot. Wake up, make Amelia’s bottle, hope she stays asleep while I shower, ideally dry hair and do make up before Amelia wakes up but this is a question mark - feed her, lotion her, dress her, let her play on the floor with stuffed animals while I finish. This will be interesting once she can actually crawl instead of just try and crawl. Then its off to daycare and work. I always have a hard time leaving the daycare - I just want to stay & play with all the babies. Soon they have a volunteer day where you get to hang out for a couple hours - I need to sign up.
At work, coffee gets me through the morning. Coffee and having lots of pictures of Amelia on my desk. And knowing I get to pick her up and have a couple hours of baby time.
Once home, we do dinner and playtime, sometimes a bath. I try to get lots of cuddles in but it depends on her mood - sometimes this means she tries to pull my necklace off for 20 minutes, others she takes a catnap on me (I love this!). Then its bottle and bedtime - and hopefully a few minutes for me and BabyDaddy to catch up - and then its my bedtime. Wash, rinse, repeat….
Its hard to remember what getting through the day meant before BabyDaddy and BabyGirl were in my life.
BabyMomma
Enjoy.