9 Months

Or alternately titled: How is my baby already almost one?!?!
Or: Claire is packing up for college...

Claire is almost 23 pounds and is 28.5 inches. This puts her in the 90% for weight and the 80% for height.
She is crawling like a pro now and pulling herself up to standing and cruising along furniture. She wants so badly to be able to stand unassisted and often tries to let go of whatever is supporting her. The longest she's been able to do that is about 7 seconds.
She had her first cold and is just now getting over it. Turns out she also had a double ear infection the doctor found at her 9 month appointment. Girl was down right pleasant for having a double ear infection! So, we're treating that now and she's getting back to her old self.
We met with the sleep specialist too and she gave us a great plan to put into place to get Claire sleeping through the night. And wouldn't you know it...ever since we met with the dr. Claire has been waking only once. And this waking has been happening later and later. Stinker.

In March, Claire will have her first nights away from mom and dad. Dane and I will head down to the Lake of the Ozarks for my annual social work conference and Reed and Claire will have their vacation at Papa and Pat's. I'm sure she'll do just fine, but it's always a little bittersweet when leaving your baby for their first few days away from you.
For Valentine's Day, Dane and I got Reed tickets to go to Lego KidsFest when it comes to St. Louis in March. Unfortunately it falls on the dates that we'll be out of town, so he gets to go with Papa. He loves creating things with Lego's so I'm sure he'll have an absolute blast. I'm excited to hear all about it.

The cold winter days are keeping us in doors lately, so there's not much to say other than we're surviving and looking forward to spring.

Until next time :)