Dear Elena,
You’re wonderful and sweet and smiley, and, regrettably, I think I’m going to have to limit this to a list and some photos.
Elena works on her Elvis impersonation. Too much tongue?
Ooh, sprinkler
- You started crawling 10 days before you turned 9 months old.
- You started moving from crawling to sitting a few days after that. Before that point, you’d often hang out in a reclining Botticelli position, working your oblique abdominal muscles, trying to push yourself to sitting. Now you sit up effortlessly. You still like that lounging position, though.
- You’re sometimes shy around strangers, asking to return to Daddy or me if you’re a little unsure of who we’re handing you off to. You warm up quickly, though, and you still flirt with everyone we meet at the grocery store.
- I read that baby fat reaches its peak around 9 months. It’s true. You’re a chunk.
- I’m writing this five days after you turned 9 months. Since then, you’ve started pulling yourself to standing. That baby fat is going to start melting away now; I mean, you’ll be running tomorrow. Or maybe it will just feel that way.
Love,
Mommy
