9 months

i feel like i haven't nearly done this little petunia justice with documenting her baby-hood

but i've come to terms with the fact that although she may have gotten the raw end of the deal as far as pictures go, i've more than made it up to her with the fact that i've got oodles more wisdom and patience now than i did the first time around.

at any rate, the winter olympics have inspired me to get out my scrapbooks and while working on hers i decided that i really do need to make an effort to get at least a few pictures each month.

so here goes....i may have missed the milestones for months 1-8, but as far as month 9 goes, this is what my sparkly little gem is up to:

sitting...she was a bit of a late bloomer on this one as she just started, but now that she's got it figured out, she's happy as a flower in sunshine to sit and dig through buckets and bins of whatever random toys i can find.

this is super-convenient when i'm trying to get my make up on or hair done - just throw together an ice cream pail full of toiletries and she's set for a good 7 minutes...which is really all i need these days :)

she's been crawling for a month now - glad that she waited until my christmas tree was down to really get going!

not much of a fan of being up on her knees

she prefers to get around army style :)

 the other girls didn't get into books until they were much older

but this lil' peanut loves to snuggle while i read

she'll tolerate other books, but often starts squaking and beating them until i pull out this one...

it's her fave.

and she'll sit quietly and listen to me read it over and over and over again

she's also got two bottom teeth (which showed up a couple months ago) but do you think miss stinkster-boo would let me get in there for a pic?

sorry, maybe another day

quite possibly the most amazing part of adding this one to our world has been watching the relationship between these two

peach was just a tiny thing when tulip came along...and although i know they bonded right from the start, she was too little to help or care for her first sister.

but her second?

oh my....

she holds her, feeds her, helps get her dressed, reads to her, looks out for her and tells me all the time how glad she is that we have a baby in our house.

9 months gone by just.like.that

love you, sparkle girl.