March 27, 2006

• and last friday...
  

  yza turned 9 months! daddy baked her a super moist chocolate cake with chocolate icing. the look on her face says she's not too sure about it.  maybe it would be better without the cheerios topping (which was my idea).
  

  
  

  last friday she also -- finally!-- had her two teeth pop through her gums. and for somebody who has been teething, she has been amazingly good-natured: no crying, no fussiness.

  
  

  her favorite activity nowadays is standing up. from a squatting position she sort of pulls her body up and pushes with her legs at the same time. i first saw her stand up on her own two weeks ago and she has been doing a lot of it since then and does it pretty smoothly now.

  
  

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  sometimes, when i see her move about a feeling of amazement washes over me. it is amazing how she has changed, in nine  months, from a floppy-headed baby i was too nervous to hold in my arms to this crawling, wriggling, laughing, moving wonder who is such a joy to us.

  
  

  as i watch her stand up, squat back down to pick up a toy and stand right up again, i can't help thinking: my little girl is so grown up now!

  
  

  the funny thing is, i had the same thought when she was two months old and i realized that she has been crying much, much less and smiling a lot and that we have been communicating better. i had the same thought when she was four months old and i saw her sit up on her own. i've had that thought several times in the past months and i know, i will be having those thoughts maybe a hundred more times down the road. i am a mommy now and nothing, really, has ever been the same since i first held her in my arms.

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