Isabelle had her 9 month check-up today. Thankfully it was early, so no one was running late and there weren't that many people in the office (fewer people sneezing and coughing). We received another gold star from the doc...everything is as it should be, and he found a fourth tooth that was coming in that I hadn't seen! This newly appearing tooth explains her temper last night...thank goodness there was an understandable reason for it! Isabelle is 29" long and weighs in at 21 lbs. This puts her at 90th percentile for height and about 82nd for weight. There were no shots needed today...hooray!
No sooner had we gotten home from the doc and resume playing that we had our first mishap of the day...they happen a lot with her these days as she cruises the furniture and appliances. So...we get a gold star from the doctor....and promptly come home to cut our lip by falling on the oven and hitting our teeth. This is the first time I'd seen any blood from any of her spills....but I'm sure that it won't be the last! She's fine, and the actual cut is really pretty small.....even so, I'd rather not see her bleed. :P
Izzy is standing by herself now for longer and longer, sometimes with a toy to wave around when she feels brave. The sitter tells Dan and I that she's been pushing toys around a LOT these past few days. She continues to love to splash in the bathtub, and Monday even launched a protest when bath time was over. Yep....she's starting to be at that age where if you take something away or do that offends her sense of what is right, she has something to say about it! Case in point...she chewed out the doctor this morning because she just didn't think that he needed to look in her second ear! He commented that it looked like she was developing a temper! LOL!
We have a toy plane that has sort of a kazoo incorporated into it. Recently, Dan and I have been trying to teach her how to blow into it to get it to play. She lights up when you show her how it works. Then....we hand the plane over and it looks like she knows what to do. She raises the mouthpiece to her lips, takes a breath.....and HUMS in an imitation of what she thinks the kazoo sounds like. Isabelle is great comic relief....and these days, all the world's a drum!
The other new thing....when feeding her, habit has us still using burp rags (cloth diapers) just under the bottle or when we're rocking afterwards. I've noticed lately that when I lay Izzy down for a nap or for the night she likes to have a burp rag in her arms and snuggled next to her cheek. Maybe she's going to stay a cuddly girl!
Onto the fun...
Oops...you caught me playing with Magnum's rope...what you don't know is that she's working on filling her pants at this point. Note the posture and the hunched shoulders and the faint distracted look....
Exploring the camera case
Exploring the camera case WHILE trying to stand up, we're trying to master doing 2 things at once.
My little lovey.
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