Kaitlyn is 9 months old.

Yes, another month has flown by. Kaitlyn is 9 months old today. She actually lost some weight this month with all of her crawling around. She is 19 pounds and still 29 inches long. Here are a few updates for you:

1. She started saying mama and dada. Mama came first then dada but she is working on daddy now. She also says gaga a lot. She likes to talk to herself. It's cute to hear her jiberish.
2. She is VERY curious about everything. She loves to explore and get into everything. Especially everything she is not supposed to.
3. She has learned she can move things to get what she wants. Jared and I have some cords and wires that are behind the end table in the family room. Kaitlyn started playing with them a lot we couldn't hide them from her so we made a little blockade of boxes and suitcases to stop her from trying to eat them. Unfortunately, we have a very smart little girl. She learned  that she can step on them to go over the boxes or simply push and pull them out of her way. It is a constant battle to try and find new ways to keep her out of things.
4. She is learning the meaning of "no" and she does NOT like it. When we tell her no and she keeps after something we sit there with her and continue t say no and pull her hand away so she knows. The first time or  2 she is fine and keeps trying, when it keeps happening and she realizes she's not going to get what she wants, she sits down and starts crying after a minute or 2 she goes after something else. But her little fits seem to get more frequent and she doesn't like the fact that we don't give in. She'll learn :)
5. Still working on the teeth. Still no progress.
6. She claps her hands a lot and will even grab our hands and make our hands clap like we used to do with her. She finds it very funny that she can make us clap.
7.  She is walking really well with help from us or her little walker and getting fast. She drags us everywhere.
8. She has started trying to stand and let go of whatever she is holding onto. She does this without thinking about it but when she realizes what she's doing she sits down really quickly. 
9. She is getting more friends. She now has 4-5 other babies that she plays with. she still needs to work on sharing. She tries to grab every toy no matter whose it is. We are working on that, the hard part is the minute we take the toy back and give it to the other baby, that baby stops playing with it or hands it to Kaitlyn. She's quite popular. 

That is pretty much it for this month. As always I will finish with the Teddy pictures.