MADELINE AT NINE MONTHS

Weight: 19 lbs 11 oz  Height: 29.8″
Eyes: Blue   Hair: Cinnamon

Highlights from her ninth month:
First trip to D.C.  – 10/15 – 10/17
(First hotel stay, metro ride, museum visit)
First dinner at a nice restaurant (DCMX) – 10/16
First trip to a pumpkin farm – 10/18
First time trying to climb the stairs –  10/19
Attended Great Nana’s 90th bday party – 10/25
Attended her first naming ceremony – 10/26
Stood up in her crib for the first time – 11/1
Mastered going up the stairs – 11/7

We had a great time in Washington D.C. on our first family vacation. We visited the Museum of Natural History where Maddie went into a butterfly garden for the first time. All of her practice looking at butterflies in Grandmum’s yard paid off. She watched all of them and didn’t attempt to grab any of them. We walked all around D.C. and enjoyed the beautiful fall weather. We saw the White House exterior, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War Memorials. We visited the Museum of American History and the Air and Space Museum, where we enjoyed a planetarium show hosted by Elmo and Big Bird.

Maddie has started babbling a lot, especially during meal times. She’s making a lot of bababa noises. She’s started eating chickpeas, quinoa, mum-mum teething biscuits and puffs. She is working on getting them in her mouth herself. She loves holding a sippy cup, but is still getting the hang of drinking from it.

MADELINE AT EIGHT MONTHS

Weight: Very Heavy   Height: Growing out of everything
Eyes: Blue   Hair: Cinnamon

Highlights from her eighth month:
Second tooth came in – 9/16
STARTED CRAWLING!! – 9/20
First Rosh Hashanah (first time at the synagogue) – 9/25
First apple picking trip – 9/27
Learned to clap –  9/28
First Yom Kippur – 10/3-10/4
First night without Mommy and Daddy – 10/10

Maddie’s second bottom middle tooth came in so her little grin is just getting cuter and cuter. She still doesn’t want you touching her teeth, but she likes to brush them with her banana teething toothbrush. She’s perfected her high-fives and loves jumping in her jumper. She has started blowing outward, a trick she learned watching Grandmum with her pinwheel in the yard. She loves it when you sing to her and is really attentive to everything going on around her. She’s very inquisitive and loves inspecting everything from all sides.

Mommy and Daddy had their first overnight trip away from her on 10/10 for Elisa and Mike’s wedding in Cape May, New Jersey. Grandmum and Poppy watched her that night and Nana and Poppo tagged in when we attended Danny and Amy’s wedding near D.C on 10/11. It was a whirlwind trip, but she was in good hands and good spirits from what we heard.