Lily is 9 months old!

Well, Lilyanna has now been out of me just as long as she was in me. It seems crazy how fast it goes. Just yesterday she started clapping. It's so cute when she does it because she has to spread her arms out as far as she can and then claps. She loves it when any of us play patty cake with her. She giggles at EVERYTHING! I love it!!

Lily now has 5 teeth. She got her bottom two first and then her top two eye teeth and then one of her front teeth. When she smiles she looks like a little snaggle toothed girl. She also decided awhile ago to crinkle up her nose when she smiles. That's pretty cute too.

Just today Lily started getting around better. I can't really call it crawling though. She kind of reaches really far for something and then gets mad and scoots on her belly. She loves pulling her self up on things. She wants to be standing ALL the time, but it's really scary to me because she still doesn't have very good balance yet.

I used to think that she wiggled around all of the time while she was eating because of the yeast that was in our systems but I've come to find out that she just plain likes to wiggle. I think it's going to be CRAZY when she really starts moving. I think she is going to be in to EVERYTHING. I will be chasing her around all day.

I am interested to see how Dylan and Lily get along once she gets a little older. She seems like she is going to be very strong willed. When they are sitting real close to each other, they already fight over things, and boy does she have a loud high pitched scream!

During the past few weeks Lily has started signing a few words. She first signed "more" by waving both hands up and down at the same time, but now she brings her hands together for it. Then one day when I was at my mom's house, I walked and and waved to her and said "Hi!" and she waved back. She was so proud of herself that she kept doing it anytime anyone would say the word. It was so cute! Then she started putting both hands high up in the air when I'd say "Big Girl" to her. But the one she does the very best is "all done". Most of the time she only does it with one hand and strangely enough it's with her left one, but anytime she is eating and starts to act like she doesn't want anymore, I will ask her if she is all done and she will sign it to me. LOVE IT! Singing with babies is one of the funnest things ever. It's stinking cute seeing Dylan sign to her too. I can't wait to teach her more and more.

Well, I know it's kind of ridiculous but Lily is still sleeping in a bassinet. I thought I was bad having Dylan sleep in it until he was 6 months old and here she is 9 months and still there. Dylan didn't ever roll in his sleep so he didn't really need anything bigger but at 6 months I started using the port-a-crib with him. Right now, I just don't have the room to set it up anywhere for her. We moved Dylan out of our room and into Braxton's room at 9 months and poor little Lily I have a feeling will be in ours for quite a while. In a few weeks we will be moving to my parents house in Idaho Falls, and shortly after that school starts again. She is going to share a room with Tyra but I don't want her waking Tyra up in the middle of the night when Tyra has school the next day. So, Lily will sleep in our room until she starts consecutively sleeping through the nights again. The sad part about that, is that almost from day one, she was pretty much sleeping through the nights, until I had to quit nursing and from that day on, she gets up several times a night. :( That makes me so sad. Dang yeast!

Since Lily was born I have had systemic yeast on a continual basis. It has flared up 3 times REALLY bad. The first time I suffered through it and was on every prescription drug and homeopathic medicine I could get my hands on, for about 2 months. Then it came back about 5 months after she was born. This time is was so bad, I had to quit nursing. There was just nothing I could do. I did keep trying until she was 6 months though, but the poor little thing kept getting yeast from me too. It was so sad. Then just recently I had another bad bout with it. UGH! I hope some day my body will go back to normal. One thing I do have to say though, is that after going through 25 1/2 hours of labor and delivery, now that I no longer have excruciating cramps anymore, it was well worth it! Of course having sweet little Lily makes it all worth it too.

For the longest time, Lily would suck in air and make a growling sound, for lack of a better word. She started doing it a ton at the beginning of summer when my niece, Katie, was staying with us. She doesn't do it as often now though. She usually only does it when she's trying to be funny. Which that in itself makes me laugh, because what 9 month old tries to be funny? But she really does, all the time. Sometimes she will be sitting there playing and just start laughing at herself for some reason. It's so funny!

For about the past month or so, Lily has really started being a mommy's girl. She will be totally fine with someone until I walk by, and then she will start fussing for me to pick her up. As soon as I do, she is fine. The hard thing though is that she squirms so much. This last Sunday, by the time Sacrament was over, I felt like I had just been through an hour long wrestling match. Ugh. I think she is even worse than Bronze used to be.

The past few days I have noticed that when I sing, Lily tries to sing with me. She's got such a stinking cute personality. We all have so much fun with her. The kids love making her laugh. My only problem is that I hate seeing her grow up so fast. It makes me really really sad. It's hard to believe that it's already been nine months since she was born. It seems like it's only been a month or two. I sure love my little sweet pea!