ava nine months

Ava is nine months old! Can you believe it? Today we took her for her check up and got to brag about how wonderfully smart and active she is! She is 28 inches long now and weighs 21 pounds and 9 ounces. You should see this girl's thighs! She's been crawling for a long time now and is incredibly fast. She not only pulls herself to stand, but cruises along the furniture, stands at the refrigerator to play with all the magnets, reaches from the couch stepping to get to the toy baskets and barely holds on when she's holding our fingers to walk. She's still got a great appetite and is loving all the table foods we're giving her and is totally ready for me to stop buying baby food. Done! The girl devours a banana and will eat anything if she gets to feed it to herself! It's incredible all the sounds she makes - tons of consonants and it seems that ma-ma and da-da are totally with purpose at times. I love how she mimics anything the boys say to her and will even stick out her tongue to copy your silly face. I swear she says hi, she waves, claps, raises her arms for a touchdown, goal or just to show how big she is, and is absolutely the most happy baby anyone could ask for all hours of the day. She loves her baths and can't get enough of the splashes she creates when she kicks her feed. She goes to bed happy and wakes up happy. She's adorable playing tea party with Logan and laughs so hard when Daddy pretends she's kung-fu fighting Logan as he does his stuntman falls. Carter cheers on anything she tries to do and achieves and gets such big laughs out of her so easily. The past nine months have gone incredibly quick, but at the same time is crazy to beleive we were a party of four just a year ago. She continues to bring so many smiles and so much sunshine to our lives! Happy nine months, Ava Paige!