9 Months Old

Where has the time gone?  Emmy is already 9 months old!  She is 17lb 3oz and 28 inches long.  We looked back and that is EXACTLY the same height and weight as Reese at 9 months.  Emmy's latest tricks include...

• Crawling, although she only goes a few feet.  Life is really going to change when she figures out that she can go across the room.
• Getting into Reese's stuff, so we are having a lot of conversations about sharing.  I have told Reese the only things she doesn't have to share with Emmy is her Lovies, and if she wants to play with something by herself, she should just take it up to her room to play.  So far this is not going well.
• Pulling herself up to standing next to furniture and the window sill.  Emmy and Reese often look outside the window and yell to scare the squirrels in our backyard.
•  Pointing to things with her pointer fingers.  She has always pointed at lots of things, but now she seems to do it with purpose.  She points to pictures in books until I say the name of the animal/person/object.  The other day, Reese and I were playing the game Spot It, and Emmy pointed to the black cat on two of the cards.  She's already learning how to play that game.
• She says some words -- Dada, Mama, Hi, Bye, Ball, and I swear she has said the word Gentle.  We say "gentle" a lot when Emmy is pulling Reese's hair or petting Kitty Libby -- we think Emmy might think Libby's name is "Gentle" since we say it so often around the kitty!  It appears Emmy is going to be very verbal and an early talker, just like her sister.