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  • Bye bye (tchau tchau)

    You started waving goodbye to the ceiling fan. You open and close your hand in the tradicional baby way of waving goodbye, while looking at the fan. We say tchau, tchau instead of bye bye though. I wonder if you think that’s the way of telling the fan to start moving.

  • No nu na

    Your favorite new sounds are no nu na (usually nonono or nonona).

    When Nona (my mom) visited, I think you liked how Nona sounded so you started saying to. Seems you like to use it for a lot of things (hungry, this, that).

    We say you’re telling yourself no.

    I realized awhile ago that we tend to say “no” to you a lot (no, don’t touch that, no don’t eat that, etc), so its not too surprising you know/say this sound.

  • Pooping in the potty

    We were giving you a bath and you made the face like you were going to poop, so what do we do? We put you on the toilet and you pooped into the toilet! Look! Potty trained already! HA!

  • Independant Standing

    Today you stood and balanced all by yourself (for 5? seconds).
    Yesterday to did it as well. Though, once you were standing by yourself, you weren’t sure what to do next.

  • Spaghetti with Cheese

    So we gave you some 9 month old food, though I don’t think you liked it much.
    How can an italian not like spaghetti with cheese? (I didn’t try it so maybe it does suck).

  • Little traveler

    We just flew back home after 3 days in White Plains, NY. You had a hard time and we don’t know why – you started crying when we got into the plane and didn’t stop until 1 hour later. It was terrible to watch you scream and not be able to figure out what was bothering you, we suspect it was the pressure in your ears but you never had a problem with that before…

    You have been to Michigan for Christmas, then White Plains, NY in February; Nashville, TN in March; then Austin, TX also in March; and now White Plains again. And we are going to Brazil in August, for your first birthday.

  • 9 month stats

    You had your 9 month old appointment and the new doctor told us that you are doing very well. You’re 19lbs3oz and 28”, and hit all the milestones for your age. He is not concerned that you don’t have any teeth yet, he said he will worry when you are 15 months old – until then, it’s fine. You had a couple of shots and a blood test to measure iron levels, which are very good (probably thanks to your iron fortified cereal breakfast every morning).

  • Many (assisted) steps

    Mother’s day, you took 150 steps chasing Gato all around the apartment. You might have kept going, but Gato went into the kitchen and the tiles are not safe in there so I stopped you. Plus it was time to go to eat.

  • Crawling for real!

    You just crawled for real towards daddy! He was sitting on the floor with his laptop on the center table and you were playing on your blanket. Then you decided to go where he was and crawled your way there! Gato was under the table too but you didn’t even bother to go to him. Good job!

  • Standing in the crib

    You woke up from a nap today and when we got into your room to pick you up, you were standing inside of the crib holding the sides, waiting for us to get there. So cute! I guess it’s time to lower the crib mattress again…