Sylvie Harriet is 9 months!

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Sylvie now weights 16.8lbs (12%) and is 28 inches long (57%) (for those interested, Elsie weighed 16.2lbs (8%) and stretched to 27 inches (30%) at this age).  She wears size 3 diapers (when she uses disposables), and mostly wears 6-12 month clothes and size 2 shoes.

Sylvie consistently sleeps 2 hours at a time at night, with a few 4-hour chunks thrown in, too. She usually takes two naps a day, the first lasting one lasting 1-1.5 hours and the second lasting about 30 minutes.

Her hair is finally growing in enough that we can say it is going to be a light brown color.  Hooray!

No new words this month- Mama, mamama (milk) and Dada are all she is saying.  She is staring to really understand that we are talking when we sign, though, so I am excited to see her begin to sign back to us.

One of Sylvie's favorite things to do is bathe with her big sister (really, doing ANYTHING with her big sister).  She loves splashing in the water, watching Elsie make funny faces and noises, stealing Elsie's animals.  She does her best to scoot right up next to Elsie in the tub, so Elsie had learned to tell us when Sylvie get in "her space" so that we can move her back to the other side of the tub.

Sylvie's other favorite thing to do is playing "chase" with Daddy.  Daddy crawls around on the ground, and Sylvie follows him around, giggling madly the whole time.  Sometimes Daddy chases Sylvie, too, but that doesn't work as well since Sylvie loves to be "caught" by Daddy and showered in kisses!

Watch me grow:

1 month

2 months

3 months

4 months

5 months

6 months

7 months

8 months

9 months

 And just for fun, Elsie at 9 months: