What is Ellis doing now? 9 Months

At 9 months:

Physical Progress

1. Crawling more in a regular manner, but still lapses into commando style - especially over longer distances.
2. More often making what we call the long journey from the living room across to the dining room right into the kitchen.
3. Can pull herself to sit on her knees.
4. Favourite activity of late: Pulling up alphabet pieces off her rubber playmat and biting on them.
5. Has learnt to fling stuff, including pacifiers and soft toys out of her crib. Especially the pacifier - 'cos she knows we will come into her room to pick it up if we hear it drop on the floor.
6. Constantly pulls herself up to the edge of the crib.
7. Can pick up and feed herself small pieces of food; holds her sippy cup and drinks from it. A slight improvement from before but she still doesn't like water all that much.
8. Is definitely not the "gentle" kind. Makes sudden, jerky motions, whacks her toys on the ground, claws at my mouth, which she thinks is a toy.

Emotions & Personality

1. Can most definitely understand "No" but usually chooses to ignore it.
2. Smiles her gummy grin a lot.
3. She is a very curious baby. Likes observing people and things.
4. Can respond to verbal prompts, like waving when we say "Bye", lifting her hands to do "High Five", clasping & unclasping her hand when we sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and her favourite, clapping super enthusiastically to "Clap-Clap"
5. Still doesn't like strangers very much. Almost always guaranteed to cry if someone unfamiliar attempts to carry her, or even make faces at her!

Eating

1. Has started on meat, so far she's tried fish, pork and chicken and seems to enjoy them.
2. Now on 3 meals a day: Cereal, fruit & yoghurt for breakfast, brown rice cereal & veggies for lunch, brown rice porridge, meat and veggies for dinner.
3. Still does 4 milk feeds.
4. Has a great interest in "adult" food. So we feed her stuff off our plates occasionally - including bread, chocolate chip muffins, claypot rice, mashed potato.

Sleeping

1. Pretty much the same - 2 - 3 naps a day but they have actually gone longer. In fact I sometimes put her to bed earlier - 6ish because she does a long first nap and shorter naps subsequently, which means that she gets sleepy earlier.
2. Wakeup time still hovers around 7am.

Progress at 8 months