9 Months

Yes you read it right, Lucy is already 9 months! I can't believe it. She has been out of the belly for as long as she was in it. I'm happy to say that I have lost all the baby weight (which was a lot more then it should have been) plus some. That's a huge relief. Hopefully I will keep it going! But it has been an amazing 9 months for sure. I just love that little girl so much. There's never a dull moment because she definitely has her dad's energy and is very busy. And always happy which she gets from Kyle too. Here are her 9 month stats:

Weight: 15.08 lbs-2.59 %
Height: 25.5 in- 3%

She is about as small as they come. The doctor said it's fine though which is good to hear. She's still growing but she is just a lot smaller. He did say that she's old enough to have a little whole milk which will hopefully help her put on some poundage. We will see. I already feed more then I think she wants. She eats about 7+ oz of baby food per meal, plus lots of snacks like cheerios and graham crackers and I nurse her 4 times a day. She doesn't usually have an off switch when she's eating so she'll eat as much as I feed her. She has several times eaten so much that she throws some up afterwards (TMI I know). Not sure how to make her chunk up if she's already eating that much! I guess we'll see what happens. I think part of the reason she's so small is not only because it's in her genes but she is so busy like a said before. The only time she sits still is to eat and even then she's about as busy as her high chair will allow. Hopefully she keeps this same metabolism her whole life and she will be one happy girl!

Here are some of her developmental things she has going on since my last update at 6 months.
She can now:

Crawl (started 7.5 months)
Stand and walk using furniture (started 8 months)
Stand on her own, well she has a couple times for about 2 seconds before falling over.
She has 1 tooth
Clap
Wave
Blow kisses
Say: Da-da, Ma-ma and bye bye
Eat finger foods
Turn off the light switch
Play peek-a-boo
Sleep through the night!
Use a sippy cup
Develop stranger anxiety

There's a million other little things but it's hard to think of all at once.

Something else she has also developed is aggressiveness. She doesn't have a bad temper or anything she just plays too rough. I think it has a lot to do with never really being around other kids and mostly just adults. When she's around other kids she tries to stand on them, grab their faces, pull their hair and take their toys or food. Hopefully it will get better this summer when she's around her cousins and bigger kids that will fight back.

She's very independent. As long as I'm in the same room as her and she can see me she will play with her toys by herself most of the day and be happy. That makes it so nice when I need to get stuff done around the house. I do still play with her though just because I love it. It's more for me then her I guess.

She's testing her boundaries constantly. She knows what "no" means but she likes to pretend she doesn't. She knows exactly what she can't get into and where she can't go. If she does try to do those things she'll slowly crawl over to it and keep looking back at me to see if I'm watching. Such a little stinker. Or if I'm doing something and she wants me to pick her up she'll cry at my feet for a little until she realizes that I can't pick her up then she'll immediately go get into something she knows that she shouldn't. Like I said before, never a dull moment.

Well that's all I can think of for now. I'm so excited to go home next week! I will leave you with a few pictures to reward you for making it through this whole post.

Trying to get the horses

Happy girl in the diaper box

Her first tooth, and cut on her nose from trying to stand on the movie shelf and falling

Fell asleep holding onto the crib

Proud wife

Pretty much every post on here is about Lucy so I just wanted to take a minute and brag about my wonderful husband. He is getting so burnt out of school and is soooooo ready for summer. With school, clinical and work he is pretty much gone from 8:30am- 12am everyday with about an hour break. He just keeps chugging along though. He works so hard so that I can stay at home with Lucy instead of working. I love him so much for that. I know that it really upsets him that he's away from Lucy so much but come the weekend he is all over that little girl. They are two peas in a pod. I love to just sit on the couch and watch them play. She adores him and he's pretty fond of her as well. I couldn't ask for a better husband and father. A couple things that recently happened that inspired me to write this were some accomplishments that he has had lately. If you know Kyle you know that he's not shy about talking himself up about pretty much anything. But what you may not know is that when he is actually really good at something he is about as humble as it gets. I have to constantly tell him over and over that he should be proud of himself for certain things but he doesn't usually believe me. I'm sure it comes from being raised in a super competitive home with 5 boys. Anyways he has been participating on the ward basketball team over the last couple months. A couple weeks ago our ward won the stake tournament. I could not have been prouder watching his games and seeing him do so well. Of course after every game I would tell him how good he did but he would just shake it off and say that he could have done better. Well after the last game we had at least 4 or 5 different people tell him that he was the tournament MVP and that he did amazing. At one point in a game the whole team was chanting "Kyle Caudle" because he was knocking down 3's left and right. I can't wait to watch him again next year! Then a few days later we found out what his new clinical assignment was for the fall semester. He really wanted to work with the basketball team but he got assigned to men's volleyball. He was kind of bummed but he later found out that the head athletic trainer for volleyball personally requested Kyle to work with them because he really liked Kyle. Again I was so proud and he didn't really think anything of it. He said that he hasn't really talked to the guy all that much but he must have made some sort of good impression. This is out of 80+ students and he requested my superstar of a husband! So that's what Kyle is up to lately. Sorry if you didn't really care but I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm his #1 fan :)

The 44th ward championship basketball team!

Sunny days

We have been lucky enough to have some nice days here and there lately (with snow storms in between of course). The sun is very welcome. Lucy is definitely an outdoor baby. Until about November her and I would take at least a walk a day. Since then we have only really been out for errands and stuff. Anyways we have been taking advantage of the beautiful weather. We've been going on walks again which is nice for both of us to get out and move. Also I discovered Lucy's love of the park. Actually I always knew she would love it long before I took her because she is such a people watcher and she loves being outside. Several days over the last couple weeks we packed a lunch and ate it in the park. It's been so nice to get out! It makes mommy happy and it makes baby happy which of course makes me even happier! She is going to love getting to play with all of her cousins all summer long. We were even lucky enough for Kyle to have some rare time off last week on a nice day and he got to come with us!