9 months old

Where has the time gone!  The summer is over and Calleigh is 9 months old already.  At her 9 month check up she weighed 17lb 2oz (25th percentile) and was 27-1/2" long (50th percentile).  All went well at the doctor's especially because there were no shots this time!  She's been crawling for about a month.  She started out doing an army crawl/inchworm maneuver and just this week has started crawling on her hands and knees with her belly off the floor.  She must not like the feel of the cold, hard tile floor on her knees though because in the kitchen and dining area she likes to get up on her hands and toes to move around.  Almost as soon as she was crawling, she started pulling herself up to stand and it wasn't too long and she started walking around the couch.

Calleigh has two teeth in on the bottom and is working on 4 more on the top.  One on the top just poked through yesterday and it won't be long before the others do, too.

 So far she's been a pretty good eater.  She loves yogurt and will eat nearly any veggie or fruit that I give her.  She's not a fan of broccoli or cottage cheese.  Those mesh feeders are great.  She chews on fruit in those for quite a while.  I think it feels good on her teeth, too.

 Calleigh is proving to be quite helpful around the house.  Just yesterday she "helped" me do the laundry by throwing all the clean clothes, that I had just folded, out of the laundry basket onto the floor.  What a sweetheart!

And tonight she helped Daddy pack his lunch.

I can only imagine the things she will "help" us with in the months and years to come!