9 Months Old!

Our little lovie was 9 months old yesterday!! I can't believe that in only 3 months she'll be a year!! She has been a bit impatient lately as she wants everything that's not within reach and things that are within reach she throws away from her so that she can no longer reach them. Then she gets mad that she can't grab them. She tries to pull herself towards things when she's on her belly but can't do it so she gets tired and mad. Of course she is happy some of the time though:-). Some of her favorite things to do are "dance" (sitting of course) to music, bang on things using her little plastic stacker cups, open and close her "oven" door and take toys out of it, and watch her brother Elvis and any other kids. She loves standing against things, but doesn't do it very well on her own. She took a big face plant boom the other day when Joe turned his head for just a second. She was not so happy about that! She also still loves her paci and anything else she can put in her mouth. She hasn't gotten any teethers yet. Just recently she started bouncing back and forth in her high chair so that the whole thing shakes--she thinks it's a pretty fun game, but it can make getting food into her mouth challenging! She loves seeing her daddy when he comes home at night (even though he's only home about an hour or less before her bedtime) and loves to give him big hugs! She really is a good little girl and such a blessing! It is has been so fun watching her grow and develop over the past 9 months! 1 month 3 months 6 months

9 months

I was thinking today how she is about growing out of the jeans she is wearing today...

it's about time!!! Here she is wearing them on Labor Day!! Lucky for her she has these cute little Walmart jeans in the next 2 sizes too...so at this rate she could be wearing these same jeans for the next year! :-) At least we'll get our money's worth!

I was looking at my baby book today and saw that at 6 months I was 13 lbs 12 oz and 25.75"--last month (Layla's adjusted age of 6 months) she was 13 lbs 11 oz and 25.25". Uh-oh, she's shorter than I was! Hope she doesn't end up being any shorter than me! :-) We go in for her 9 month appointment next week so I'll get her current stats then.

Belly roll (and fluffy post bath hair)!!

Double chin!!

I still sometimes like my fingers...

Turning 9 months is hard work...yawn...

She LOVES finger foods. I break up her food for her but she grabs it and shoves it in her mouth so fast that breaking it into little pieces probably doesn't do a lot of good!

If I scratch the back of my high chair with my nails is makes a funny sound!! So fun!!

Update on Elv

The doctor called this morning and Elv's blood work came back good!! The blood work checked for liver or kidney problems or low blood glucose. All his levels were normal. So we now will just monitor his seizures and go from there. Hopefully he doesn't have another one for a very long time!!

Not Starting Off So Great

So far this week seems to be incurring a lot of expenses! It started Saturday night when I chipped my tooth (a tooth that already has some issues and prior to this happening they said I might need a crown) and since I'm now under Joe's insurance there aren't any dentists in Holland or Zeeland "in network". Then Sunday morning when we were trying to leave for church my car (the Endeavor) wouldn't start. That night Elvis had a seizure--which he's never had before and isn't common for dogs that young to have. I was going to try to go to the dentist today, but then once Elvis had the seizure I wanted to go to the vet instead--my tooth can wait! Well, I was going to drive the truck and Joe was going to take his car like normal, but before Joe left this morning I asked him to take the truck instead (I don't like driving it). Good thing I did b/c the truck's battery was dead this morning! It first wouldn't start up when Joe was trying to jump it, but then Joe realized that it was because one of the jumper cables was broken! Thankfully we had another one he could use. So Joe's morning didn't start off real great and he said it didn't get any better at work.

The vet checked Elv and says he seems fine and Elv does seem to be acting fine now. Seizures can be hard to determine a cause. They drew some blood and we'll get the results back from that tomorrow. So hopefully he's okay!! I know he's just a dog, but he is my first born:-). And our car should be fixed by tonight. It was something with the fuel pump or something (real specific, I know:-0). So it's been a pretty expensive week this week--guess Layla just won't get any new clothes for a little bit:-).

And I'll leave you with some pics taken after church yesterday.

Big Girl Bath

Layla took her first bath in the big tub this week, well, sort of...her tub was in the big tub. She was starting to splash too much doing it on the kitchen sink. She started eating some of the meat baby foods this week. She loves them! She puckers her face eating fruits, but loves all veggies, meats and anything else we give her. She even liked a little piece of cooked green pepper the other night. We're not really giving her "people" food yet as I don't really know when it's okay to start that, but she's had some pieces of bread and such and loves it. It's nice to give her finger foods so that she can keep herself occupied feeding herself while I make dinner. I just get paranoid that she'll choke and I won't remember CPR even though I took it twice (at ZCH and Spectrum) so I only give her little pieces:-). I'm sure I'll get over that eventually:-).

She's outgrowing her Minnie jammers so she'll have to get a new one before our trip to see Minnie!

She loves watching herself on the screensaver on my work computer:-).

Date Night

Alden came over to play tonight while his parents went to a wedding.

They haven't quite learned yet how to share...

Alden spends a lot of time on his tummy and Layla still hates her tummy. I was hoping Layla could learn from his example of liking his tummy:-).

Watching a movie together before bedtime:-).

Pics (for lack of a better title)

When I posted the mini Maroons pic the other day I forgot to include this one with Jonathan. Poor little guy doesn't have a maroons shirt so he wasn't allowed in the "official" shot, but he did get on one of my pics. Unfortunately neither of his parents went to HC.


Layla tried on her swimsuit after her bath the other day to see if it'll fit her for our upcoming trip to see Mickey. She had just tipped backwards so she wasn't too happy.


It's kind of hard to read, but I think this Walmart tee is cute:-).

Gavin, Layla and Elv had fun playing with her kitchen the other day.

Future Maroons

Holland Christian sends these cute little tees to HC graduates when they find out that you had a baby. We thought it'd be cute to get a pic of the kids in them (Alden Lucas, Ella Koning and Layla).