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Dear Q – 9 months

Dear Q,

How in the world are you already nine months old? Seriously? I keep asking myself how you got so big so fast and the only answer I can come up with is that someone must have sped up the clock since July 4th.

Despite this time warp feeling, I enjoy my time with you so much. I’m so thankful that I am able to stay at home with you. I can’t image being away from you every day and only seeing you at night and on weekends. I know how fortunate I am to be in this situation and I don’t take it for granted!

Right now you’re a happy little girl about 85% of the time. You love to sit and play with your toys and anything I hand to you. You have a fondness for remote controls, paper, cords, spoons and crinkly bags. You and George are best friends and you love Stella, even though she rarely comes within three feet of you. You now announce when you see someone with a loud “HEH!”. It’s the same noise for the cats and for Daddy and then you look at me to make sure I see what you’re talking about. I love it. You get so excited when you see Daddy that you nearly leap out of my arms to get to him. I can’t wait until you can crawl and then run to him. My heart bursts with love just thinking about it!

You are right on the cusp of being mobile and I can tell that it’s driving you nuts to not be quite able to move the way you want to. When you are on your tummy you scoot yourself backwards and you get so mad! You’re finally rolling consistently as well. My bet is that you’ll be crawling before the end of the month. Daddy and I have some baby proofing to do!

From tracing pictures in books, to poking each button on my shirt, to tapping my teeth when I smile, you explore everything with your pointer fingers. You’re interested in every nook and cranny of whatever crosses your path. You aren’t pointing things out yet but I think you’re close. We have so much fun exploring things together.

After 9 months of having you in our room, we’re working on transitioning you to your own room. You used to nurse all night long but we’ve learned in the past few days that you are able to go the entire night without nursing, which is pretty amazing to me! Daddy has been taking care of all night wakings in hopes that when you figure out you’re not going to be fed, you’ll start sleeping longer stretches. So far so good and I’m so proud of you! It seems to be a silly thing of which to be proud but I’m a mom, I can’t help it.

While I think you’re more than ready to be in your own room, I will miss you. I wouldn’t trade one minute of our cosleeping cuddling for anything. (awww, I’m tearing up!) I think cosleeping has been a big part of making you the calm and secure person you are. People comment all the time on how relaxed you are and when we were on vacation for 10 days you only cried ONE time. That makes me feel good as a parent and makes me glad to have such an awesome kid.

I’m also very happy with our breastfeeding relationship, we both love babywearing (the best place in the world is next to Mommy!) and using Baby Led Weaning was the perfect choice for us. It’s pretty awesome seeing parenting decisions paying off and working out the way you had always hoped.

So, Muffin, to summarize, you are awesome. I’m so thankful to have you in my life as my number one girl. We have so much to look forward to. I hope this time warp slows down a little bit. I want to savor your babyness before you become a little girl and I know that time is running out.

I love you more than anything!

Mommy

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