my peaches and cream: Jayna @ 9 Months

Better late than never, right? Right!! I just went back and read the post called Jayna at 8 Months and realized that she's been doing some things for awhile now, but she seems to have perfected them. She is also working on new things now. So here goes in my famous list format:

Her 9 month well baby visit was yesterday. She weighed in at 23 lbs and 8 oz. She is 28.25 inches long. She's in the 91st percentile for her weight and the 75th percentile for her height. Still decently proportioned. She's also in the 75th percentile for her head circumference too, which is something like 44 cm, but I can't remember exactly.
The doc said she's doing well. Her ears looked like healthy ears yesterday (yay!!) and we hope they stay that way. With summer being here, we have a good chance of her ears growing and staying ear infection-free until they have grown enough to not swell and fill up with fluid.
Jayna has a newfound affinity for solid food...ANY solid food. This morning she attacked my Special K. I gave her a few soggy flakes and she loved it. Last night I have her a few small pieces of chicken. She LOVED that!! She also now eats yogurt, pasta, cottage cheese, all sorts of fresh fruits (peaches, pears, mangoes, apples, bananas) and fresh veggies (peas, green beans, squash, sweet potatoes, regular potatoes, avocado, cauliflower), string cheese and almost anything that I eat. She still loves Gerber puffs, but she also now loves these things call Baby Mum Mums. They're like veggie crackers that dissolve easily. She also now loves Gerber yogurt bites. And she feeds herself most of these things.
Jayna now drinks from a sippy cup. She even knows how to tip it now. I mentioned to the doc that Jayna is now too busy to finish her bottles. Doc said, 'Then don't make her!! Shoot for 24 oz. a day, but if she only gets 2o, that's okay. She's obviously healthy!!" And we can also give her formula in a sippy cup. We have yet to do that. We'll see how it goes soon.
Jayna can crawl now. Actually crawl. And she's into everything. She will follow me from room to room and gets really mad when I take things away from her that she isn't supposed to have (like dog toys, shoes and magazines). We've begun putting up a baby gate at her room door and putting her in her room when we need to get something done (like drying off the dogs from the rain or loading the car to leave). It's really the only way to corral her.
Jayna pulls herself to a standing position now. And she does it on anything including the wall. Yep, just the wall. She has a very thought out and intricate way of doing so, but she does it. She's also learned to fall down on her butt and her knees depending on what she wants to do on the floor. It's very cute.
She can say mama, bobble, dada, nana and byebye. She was working on the r sound a few days ago, but it has yet to resurface.
Jayna understands LOTS of words and phrases. She knows "bites" for food, "bath," "dog," "bedtime," etc.
She waves all the time, even to the ceiling fan and the dogs. It's pretty cute...and funny.
Jayna has stranger fear. Over things that aren't even real people. Posters of people and some cartoons and toys scare her also.
She is learning what temper tantrums are. She threw a fit when I took something from her yesterday. I left the room. She stopped throwing the fit, crawled into the kitchen where I was and resumed the fit. Funny.
She screams when she's excited.
Jayna LOVES Elmo. Crap.
She loves to swing.
She thinks it's the funniest thing in the world to feed Oliver, who hangs out underneath her high chair during meal times. Instead of just watching him eat what falls from her tray, she puts food in her hand and puts her hand down at the side of her chair...and Ollie eats straight from her hand. It's cute and annoying all at the same time.
She is very iffy about grass. She's getting better, but still iffy.
Jayna loves jewelry, buttons, zippers, and mouths. She loves to try to put her hands in your mouth. And she loves it if you pretend to eat her hand. Weird.

And a few recent photos:

Standing at her favorite place (the coffee table) playing with her favorite toy (the cork coasters).