Clean up!

This is Ryan's way of getting Karys to help clean up toys. He holds her over a toy, waits until she picks it up, "flies" her over to the toy basket and waits for her to drop it it. :) Kinda reminds you of the crane game at the arcade, huh? ;)

New Laugh

I'm finally getting that video posted that I wanted to show off. This is Karys's latest laugh...well, basically an addition to her laugh! She does this sniffing thing...too cute! :)

(And yes, that is Ryan in the background humming the "Spiderman" theme song! :)

9 Month Stats

We went for Karys's 9 month checkup last week, only to find out she's still long and skinny! (Gosh, I wish I was her!!) She weighed 17 lbs. 2 oz. (18th percentile) and was 28" long (63rd percentile). And either her head was measured wrong last time or it grew a lot this time. Last time it was 16 1/4" and that was the 7th percentile. This time it was 17 1/4" and that was the 43rd percentile!

I did find out that she's old enough to have soft table foods. I got really excited about that and went out and bought all kinds of things for her to feed to herself. And realized really quickly that it wasn't going to be that easy. Check out these pics of her eating Cheerios!

Checking them out

After I put one in her mouth!

I have since slowed things down and am trying to get her accustomed to eating the 3rd level baby foods that have chunky pieces. Oh, and she's getting better at liking the Gerber Puffs. Yesterday I decided she was never going to get used to them if we didn't practice eating them more often so I broke up a few pieces and put them on her tray. When she would pick one up, I'd guide her hand to her mouth so she could feed herself. I then put a couple of whole ones on the tray for her to experiment with while I sat in front of her, filling out her calendar of things she's done this month. Then I start hearing this gagging noise and she has one of the Puffs too far back in her mouth so I had to pull it out...and upon doing that, realized, "Hey, she put this in her mouth by herself!!"

I will be posting a video soon of a funny thing she does lately. While laughing, sometimes she will scrunch up her nose and do this sniffing thing that is so funny! My sister used to do it when she was little...kinda funny that Karys does it now too. The only reason I can't post it right now is because I haven't downloaded it to the computer. I'll do my best to get to that ASAP. For now, I'll leave you with some of our latest pictures:

Our latest play date with Stephanie and Ethan:

And some fun bath time pics: