9 months old!!

Hannah, you are 9 months old!! At your 9-month appt, you weighed 20 lbs, 15oz (80th percentile), were 25.5 inches long (75th percentile), and your head circumference was 19 inches (90th percentile). As your daddy put it, "that's a Crowell head for sure!" (For our friends that read the blog, according to Eric, his side of the family all have large heads... I'm not really sure if this is true or not, but he swears it is. For Eric's family that reads the blog, I secretly think it's just him.)

You just started crawling a couple of weeks ago, and you are quickly becoming a pro. You also started pulling up on things and standing up, which means nothing is safe now!

The pediatrician said you could start eating real food now, so we have been introducing it to you slowly... but you can't seem to get enough!! You love yogurt, cheese, ham, chicken, taco meat, avacodoes and you somehow manage to eat almost a whole bag of yogurt melts a day (ok, ok... with the help of your mommy... but they are really good!). Also, you really love these puffs that look a whole lot like Cheetos which make me feel slightly guilty for feeding them to you in restaurants. I want to bring the Gerber can they come in and say "Look... she's supposed to eat them!"

Every day is something new with you Hannah, it is just such an exciting time. We love you Boo!

Crawling!

Hannah is now officially crawling!!! She has been army-crawling for the past three weeks or so, and then all of a sudden she just started crawling for real! It was so cute, and then we started clapping and saying "yay Hannah" and then she just looked right at us and sat up and clapped along. It was great!

But, when we tried recreating that on video, it sadly didn't work. Guess you just had to be there :)


But here is a video of her crawling down the hallway. Our girl is getting so big!!!

2/15 UPDATE: Since this first day when she started crawling, she has been non-stop! Here are a couple of cute pictures of her in action :)

Pardon the drool :)

Gymboree!!

Hannah and I have started going to Gymboree classes on Mondays as a fun mother-daughter bonding thing... a couple of weeks ago, Eric went with us and took these pictures!

It is so much fun to watch her interact with the other kids, and it's really amazing how quickly she is learning things by watching them. I feel like she has gone from just sitting there to standing to army-crawling in just a couple of weeks. It's crazy!

But, I have so much fun going with her.... it gets us out of the house and we usually have lunch with Daddy, or go shopping afterwards, so it's a great girls day out.

Dedication day

Yesterday was Hannah's baby dedication day at church and it was so great! Hannah's Mama, Papa, Great-Aunt Pami, and Aunt Katie came and we had such a good time. The header at the top of the blog was the slide they showed when we walked up. I thought it was so cute, I put it on the blog!

We had dedication with our good friends Jamey and Hilary and their two precious babies, Carter and Calla. Carter and Calla are truly miracle babies and they are just so adorable and sweet. We love them and it was so special for us to share this day with them!

Our life verse for Hannah is Joshua 1:9, and it is our goal to teach Hannah that God is always there for her and He will never leave her.

Hilary's family recorded the entire thing and she put it on YouTube, so I copied the link from her page :)

Here it is: BabyDedication 2/7/2010

We love you Hannah and we will always remember this sweet day!!