Clara's 9 months

Clara's 9 months

{I did this post months ago and never uploaded the picture, so here it is}

9 months has come and gone.  You are fully mobile now.  Crawling faster and faster everyday, some days your arms just can't keep up with your legs!  Pulling up has been your newest accomplishment.  All fun for us to watch, but more fun for you I think.  Just today, I watched you maneuver your way up a step. Such determination.

You babble constantly.  Creating your own little language.  It's adorable.

At your 9 month check-up you weighed 17lbs 4oz and were 29 1/2" - 85th percentile, this was not the case for your weight.  You are still in size 3 diapers and wearing 6-12 month clothes, though most of your leggings in this size are being worn as capri pants.  Time to update for fall!

We are spending a month in Memphis while I'm on rotation here at The Med doing adolescent gynecology and hoping to make a great impression!  It was an adjustment for all of us, but you seem to be back on track and sleeping through the night again.  Hopefully, our transition to Michigan next month won't take quite so long.  But if it does, we'll all be ok.  We are looking forward to a few weeks at The Fishers house with some honorary siblings! 

Happy Fall y'all!

Frozen Fun

The last two days have be so much fun.  They feel like stolen days.  As you may have heard, Mississippi and most of the Southeast have been getting winter weather.  Everything has been closed - schools, daycare and most of the clinics around town - including the dermatology clinic I'm rotating at this month.  What a treat!!  {Poor Bo, the hospital is, of course, open so off to work he goes.  We sure wish he could be home to enjoy in the festivities with us!}

Clara and I've had to get a little creative.  Taking walks were a little tricky with icy sidewalks - do you know a Mississippian with a shovel?  None in sight around here...

Yesterday we bundled up and ventured into the "snowy" front yard.  Clara was a little skeptical, this her first run-in with the white stuff.  

She eventually figured it out.  

Kind of.  

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Today we attempted finger painting with some 'edible' paint {recipe here}.  The paint was so good, Clara found it more fun to eat.  We'll keep trying.  Maybe in the bath tub - I think she's pretty conditioned that the highchair = time to eat.

The best part?!? We'll be home again tomorrow!  This is really unprecedented, I can't believe how lucky I am to get three free days at home with Clara.  Looking out to the horizon is pretty overwhelming.  I can't really imagine what residency will look like.  I'm so thankful for this stolen time with Little Girl.  

She's just the best ever.