Nine Months

Dylan is suspiciously close to saying a word or two. She crawls desperately after me all the time going mamamamamamamama. It is unclear whether she is actually refering to me, but it's starting to seem like it sometimes, especially when she switches to dadadadadadada when chasing after Aaron. She is getting quick with the crawling and its attendent potential for self destruction. When she sees something she wants she gets this fixated googly eyed look.



She often crawls directly under Snuffy, who looks down like, how did you get there, and then gingerly steps away. They got in their first fight today when Dylan kept trying to take his rawhide. She also likes to take his water.


She is really starting to understand a lot. She waves all the time and tried to do the itsy-bitsy spider today. She can feed herself a fair amount, although she still seems sort of intolerant to some of the things I try with her. Her second bottom tooth cut through in the past day or two, which explains a lot. She has been pulling up to her knees for a couple of weeks, but has only starting pulling up to her feet in the past two days.


Playing with her now is so much fun. Also fun is that she plays by herself while we do other things nearby. Our house has a nice setup downstairs for her to scuttle around in. It is fairly safe, although complete babyproofing seems like a myth. We had just stopped having to gate Snuffy in. I daydream about getting the kind of gate that can swing open like a door because that's the kind of excitement I like to have in my life.

Also, our home has been infested with a single enormous rodent:

And a single evil imp: