9 Months Old

3/4 of the way to a year! I can't believe Mary Lee will be one in just 3 short months. What a great 9 months with our baby girl! Mary Lee is still her happy, cute self. She has loved being home with mommy this summer. She has been on a beach trip with all of her cousins from Mississippi, and she had so much fun! One tragic (well, tragic to mommy) thing that happened last week is that sweet Mary Lee got stung by a wasp not once, but TWICE on her HEAD...OUCH! I was holding her, and we were checking the mail. All of a sudden, she let out a horrifying scream. Unfortunately, I didn't realize what was happening until the wasp had already stung her twice. Thankfully, she did not have an allergic reaction to the stings...praise Jesus! Another family event this month was that we put our house on the market. Griffin finds out in March where he matches for residency. We pray we are staying in Birmingham, but we could be matched somewhere else. We are trusting that the Lord will lead us to the right place. We went ahead and put our house up for sale so we are not waiting until the last minute to try to sale it. Mary Lee is along for the ride, and she is such a good "passenger". She just goes with the flow and is happy doing whatever!

Stats from 9 month check up:
Weight - 21 lbs, 12 oz
Height - 28 1/4 inches

Things to remember about Mary Lee at 9 months old:

• One major accomplishment...You can now use a sippy cup!
• How cute your little teeth are (You now have 2 on the bottom and a new one on the top.
• How for the longest time, when attempting to crawl, you would get in full out push up position
• The way you almost crawl by getting on your knees and rocking away...I just know you will take off any day now
• How cute you are when you shake your head from side to side (I am pretty sure it means yes and no to you.)
• The way you still don't have much hair and what little hair you do have sticks up everywhere
• How much you love to walk around the house with someone holding your hands (Unfortunately, mommy and daddy might have back problems from this activity.)The way you completely spin your self around on the floor and in your crib
• How much you LOVE Praise Baby...when it is on you go into what daddy calls a "Praise Baby Coma"
• How at nap time and bed time, you love for mommy and daddy to sing to you when we lay you down
  

Enjoy some pictures of Mary Lee!

Beautiful Girl!

Daddy's Saint's Girl

Having fun eating out at the beach

With my Nena eating out at the beach

With my Nena in the lazy river at the beach. My Nena played with me LOTS in the lazy river, and I LOVED it!

Another Trip to the Zoo

With it being summer, I am actually getting to enjoy the life of a stay at home mommy! Now, I am not saying it is all easy...there are days where I am definitely more exhausted than when I was working. However, I am LOVING spending lots of quality time with my baby girl every single day! Being home this summer is also allowing Mary Lee and me to spend some much missed time with Amy and Olivia! We enjoy every second we get to spend with them, and every time we are with them the mommies talk a lot! I ask Amy lots of mommy questions since Olivia is 3 months older than Mary Lee, and I always enjoy watching and learning from Amy. She is such a natural mommy, and I admire the kind of mommy she is to Olivia...Olivia is one blessed little girl, but then again, Amy is one blessed mommy! On to the zoo...We had so much fun! Both girls missed their morning naps, so we weren't sure how the day would go or if we would have 2 fussy girls, but we headed out anyway. And let me say...the girls were AMAZING! We never heard a fuss or whine from either one of them! They were so much fun, and the day was beautiful. Oh yeah, we were there for 4 1/2 hours...that's a long time to occupy two girls less than a year old, but it seemed easy! What a great day!

About to start our zoo adventure

Watching the flamingos. They loved these because they moved around a lot and made lots of funny noises!

Riding the carousel

Mary Lee was exhausted...

...And so was Olivia!

But, it was a great day at the zoo!