Small steps...

Hello everyone!! The weather has been so nice, we've been finding ourselves outside...instead of inside...updating our blog ;) Stella has had a lot of firsts lately. She started crawling just a few nights ago. She gets a little upset, usually because David or I are coaxing her with a toy and keep pulling it further and further away. Mean hu? So she'll last a few 'steps' forward then get frustrated and start crying.

Crawling or not, she'll find her way across the room. Never on her stomach of course, no no, she still hates being on her tummy. She learned awful fast how to push herself up into the sitting position.

While in the tub the other night she pulled herself up on the side of the tub into the standing position. As if she's known how to do it all along. Which I am wondering how long she's been able to do it, because when I go get her in the mornings or from naps, she's got her hands on the rail, sitting up, and her head pokin' out like she's been waiting a lifetime.

She's momma's walking buddy in the mornings and daddy's biggest soccer fan when he plays his games during the weekdays. And she's so content to watch us play tennis as the ball goes back and forth and back and forth... oo a treat... back and forth... oo a toy....

She's also mastered picking up all foods and putting them in her mouth. Even small peas and slippery bananas. In fact she prefers to feed herself. She's an awesome little eater. She'll sit in her highchair while I cook dinner and make wonderful conversation.

I'm expecting her to stand by herself any day now as she raises her knees off the ground and pushes further and further back with her hands. Well, stand or do a summer sault!

I can't believe she's almost 9 months old!

Hope you enjoy the pictures. We took them this last sunday outside of our apartment after church.