Mary's 9-Month Update

I'm getting to the 9-month update a little bit late since I wanted to wait until her 9-month wellness visit, which we just had yesterday.  Here is Mary's 9-month photo on the 5th:

Mary's stats are:
Weight- 14 lbs. 8.5 oz (3rd percentile)
Height- 26.7 inches (20th percentile)
Head- 44.7 cm/17.5 inches (68th percentile)

She actually lost 14 oz. since her 6-month appointment, and she grew less than half an inch.  We have to go in next week to re-weigh her after doing some things nutritionally to hopefully get her to gain some weight.  If she hasn't gained any weight then we'll have to do some blood work to check her thyroid function.    

As far as what she's up to these days, she has taken a little bit more of an interest in getting mobile.  Up until about 3 weeks ago, she didn't seem to care at all about getting around.  She's just a hang out sitting in one spot and play kind of girl.  I set her up with some toys, and she'll just sit there moving through different ones putting them in her mouth and looking at them.  As is Nichols baby tradition, our kids like to start off with the commando crawl.  Mary will push herself in circles and backwards, but she hasn't moved forward yet.  She hangs out on her belly, and when she's tired she either rolls onto her back our lays her head down on the floor and sucks her thumb until she gets picked up.  She's a totally different temperament than either of the boys.  Jack was climbing staircases and Owen was crawling out our back patio door at this point.  If Mary was our first born, she and I would snuggle in bed all day and take a lot of naps.  That's just what she likes!

Here are some of the cute pictures taken this month of her happy little face.

Mary is a huge fan of selfies, because she likes seeing herself in the camera.  She also loves the mirror.  Whenever we're about to enter a room with a mirror she sticks her head out as far as she can to see the mirror before we even get into the room.  She always waves her arms and kicks her legs when she sees herself.

Mary has pretty much started to clap.  She swings her arms together trying to clap, and her hands connect sometimes.  She's getting the basics down of it.  She has also started to pull up when I hold my hands out for her.  She laughs so hard when she stands up all proud of herself.  I let her pull up in her crib one morning, and she ended up tipping over and hitting the bottom of her chin on the bar and biting her tongue.  I felt bad for her, so I just let her practice her skill holding on to my hands for now.  She is still sleeping 11.5 to 12 hours straight at night.  She can eat double her body weight in avocado/guacamole, and she also loves eggs.  She's a weirdo who does not like watermelon :).

She's pretty much just my little buddy baby.  She would be happy if I just held her and walked around with her all day long.