I love to play!!

9 months

Hard to believe this little girl is 9 months. And it's hard to believe she is only 18lbs 9oz- and she is 27 inches long. That makes her in the 98 percentile for an average Down Syndrome child in weight and 93% in height. On typical charts she falls just below the 50% mark. She is healthy and strong!!!

We had her 6 month review over the goals and milestones that she has met with her therapists. It went fabulous. Some of the things we were hoping for her to be able to do were: play with a wide variety of toys, and do that while sitting unassisted, learn signs for all done, more and "hi" and "bye"- these are just a few but she is doing them all with such enthusiastic joy!!

Some of the new goals are to start cruising and crawling. Pulling up to stand on her own. Learning more basic signs to help her communicate her needs more effectively- screaming isn't okay??? Haha it works!! She is doing really good at placing her hand on mine if right by me to get my attention or to ask for more. I think it's amazing.

It's been so rewarding and different this time around. How often do we as parents really step back and think about what's next and every little detail that is involved with every milestone. Teaching her every step of learning to move to sit from laying on her tummy or the right way to stand and sit back down without stiff legs... I mean it is so involved and I have to say really fun. We have a moment every other hour to celebrate!! Shoot we celebrate EVERYTHING because she loves to clap and say Yay!!! I love it!!

I have to say the cutest thing she does right now is a little fake laugh. She does it so you will start laughing and then it turns into a big belly laugh fest. It makes her so happy she bounces up and down to do it again!! She has the happiest spirit!!!

Here are some pictures from our trip to Branson a couple of weeks ago. We got to see my mom and it was fun!! It was much like being in Seattle for a bit- rainy and misty the whole time but hot and humid too...

We went to the Table Rock Dam and there was a fish hatchery. The kids were feeding the fish and they would jump and fight for the food... It made Mia laugh and she was so intrigued.





I forgot my camera battery charger and these were the only pics I got of her little tutu self on the 4th. I was sad. My camera lens was so much colder than the humidity outside and got a foggy picture but it was still too cute to leave out.







With my phone...here she is watching the fireworks and loving them!


We went to Silver Dollar City and she had so much fun playing in the little water spots we could find.









Out at the Branson Landing River Walk for dinner and a stroll....













And then today... wearing Brookelyn's headband she took off of BRooke...