The McEwans: Nine Months

The girls are 9 months! (Well, nearly but since today was their 9 month check up I'm just going with it.) They are like miniature adults now--they have likes, dislikes, mood swings, temper tantrums, favorite toys, and very defined personalities. They're also cruisers now--walking along all furniture, standing, sitting, standing again, pulling each other up, and knocking each other down. At any point on any day you can walk out front of our house and hear screaming, yelling, crying, laughing but I wouldn't have it any other way. The house constantly looks like a war zone between dueling toy factions and today as I write this it looks like Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates is leading his team to victory as they are the only ones who haven't been flung out of the playroom. The girls keep me so busy but I love every minute of it (even when I have to hide in the corner of the playroom, behind the chair, in order to finish my lunch!).

At their 9 month check up we received the following stats:

Emma Rae: 19 lbs 5 oz= 60th percentile & 29.5 inches= off the charts

She likes to wave, she does the roll part from Patty Cakes, she loves to stand and walk along any piece of furniture, she can even squat down, pick something up and then stand back up! She has gotten much better at feeding herself finger foods and prefers a straw over a sippy cup. She will dance to pretty much any kind of music and we have to let her stand in her crib and dance a few minutes before convincing her to lay down for bed :-)

Olivia Marie: 15 lbs 5 oz= 5th percentile & 28.5 inches= 80th percentile
She pretty much claps all the time-when you change her diaper, when she's crying, when you're not paying attention to her, etc. She is an expert at picking up the smallest speck of food and putting it in her mouth. She likes to hold her arm up in the air and snap (like she's a rude person trying to get a waiter....I have NO IDEA where she learned this lol). She has the most infectious laugh when you tickle her.