milia is 9 months old!

at 9 months, milia..

pats our back when we pick her up.

is obsessed with taking her socks off.

loves to jump really high in her jumper.

says "da da" and "hi" in a high pitched voice.

enjoys listening to her daddy read her books.

she crawls everywhere and on top of everything.

does not like being confined in her swing or exersaucer.

is starting to walk with her walker and pulls up on furniture.

loves to play with aubren's bouncy ball and rolls it back and forth to her.

still loves to nurse and has really enjoyed the introduction of sippy cups.

loves to be outside and to go on walks while watching aubren ride her bike.

is into everything and puts everything in her mouth. she loves to munch on shoes!

crawls everywhere - she gets excited when she hears someone's voice down the hall and crawls to find them.

loves to give kisses to us and her baby doll. aubren has been really sweet with sharing her toys and graciously gave her little sister one of her favorite dolls, kenzie.

new bicycle

aubren got a bicycle for christmas but when we brought it home we realized it did not have brakes. i don't even understand why someone would make a bike for a 3 yr old with out brakes! so when we found a trek bicycle at a garage sale last weekend for $10 we grabbed it.

aubren loves her new bike!

skinning her shin as she fell to the ground!

aubren's thoughts

upon geting donuts for breakfast...
me: "now aubren, eating donuts does not give you a license to be hyper."
aubs: don't worry, i will only be a little hyper, not too much."

aubs telling her friend ellie what she wants to be when she grows up...
"ellie, i am going to be an artist when i grow up. do you know what artists do? they draw, color, and paint things. they are smart, kind, and really sweet to all of their other artist friends."

"mom, we shouldn't cook animals. they want to have a real life."

it won't be long now...

milia has been pulling up on everything lately, so tonight trey mentioned that we should get out aubren's old walker and just let her play with it. to our surprise, she jumped right in and started walking with it.