9 Months old...

There are quite a few wonderful things about being a big, 9-month old girl!

One big advantage to being a big girl is you can look out the window...

You also get to wear big-girl shoes!

...and you have big levels of fun!

you also have extra smarts...

...and abilities, like sitting up!

And maybe best of all, you can crawl!

...and not only can you crawl, you can wear a pretty clippy in your hair!

You also get to do lots of fun things with Daddy...

...like get tossed up in the air, which nearly always makes you smile and laugh!

Also when you're big, you enjoy going on walks even more...

(Ok, so the weather did get a little chilly a couple of weeks ago. We needed to bundle up to keep warm.)

When you get bigger, you enjoy drinking water and meal time more! (even if you don't really eat much besides tomato-broth type soups!)

...you also get to explore your world in a new way...

Cell phones are cool!

You can climb into your toybox without help...

...and be really cute so your mommy wants to take ridiculous amounts of pictures of you!

October--and the temperature's "down"!

It's October and the temperature's down! It's not exactly chilly, but the mornings are delightfully cooler. It's still been getting up there during the day, but the humidity is down, so it feels much better.

Tim and I (mostly Tim, because there were spiders, and dead spiders everywhere) cleaned out our garage this morning. It really needed it. We were having a veritable infestation of mainly brown widows (there were lots of other spiders too), so a couple of months ago we fumigated the garage with a mist-bomb-bug-killer. Thankfully, not too many more spiders had moved in since then, so we swept up and vacuumed things and got it looking much better. Whew! Thanks, Tim!!!

I didn't do anything to her hair. It's just naturally big! 

One of her favourite things to play with is the diaper-wipe box.

Now's she's got three teeth on the bottom and four coming in on top!!!

We tried Annie's cute shoes that we got from her Aunt Marian. They were a bit too big, maybe, but not much. They were so adorable! Annie was pretty curious about them too. Thanks for the shoes, Marian!!!

 

This little girl likes water...plus it's just fun to play with the cup and bite the tip :-)

I think she's coming after the camera in this one!

Wow, I have a shoe on my foot!

I made Grandma Boothman's Lemon Meringue Pie. (Except I made a graham cracker crust, which wasn't as good as Grandma's crust recipe, but it was fast...). It was really good!!!

Here's my husband. Ain't he handsome? He's the best husband and father, and I'm so glad I'm married to him!

This little guy was on the inside of the screen, between the glass and the screen. Tim helped him find his way out through the bent part of the screen...

Rain!!!

Daddy's hat. I love this little girl!