Gwen at 9 Months

Crawling. Standing up. Waving. Pointing. This has been a huge month for Gwen. It's safe to say she has graduated from being an infant, and is steamrolling toward toddlerhood.

Speaking of graduation, Gwen's teachers moved her into "Infant B" on April 1, right around the time she really got the hang of crawling. So now Gwen is reunited with some of her older, crawling colleagues and is free to spend her days frolicking around with the other soon-to-be-Toddlers.

Food-wise, Gwen is still getting the hang of solids. We skipped several stages of mushy food and went straight for the almost-like-real-food baby food. Gwen seems to like that much more. (Honestly, Gwen's favorite food seems to be whatever Morgan is eating. Unfortunately, she's not quite ready for all of that yet. Pretty soon, though.)

At Gwen's 9-month appointment, she weighed 18 lbs 12 oz. and was 28 inches long (both are in the 50th percentile). She also shook-off her recent stranger anxiety and put on a brave face for the doctor and nurse. She even waved goodbye to the doctor as he was leaving, prompting him to say "Wow, that's really advanced!" Way to impress the doctor, Gwen!

Here are some photos from Gwen's 9th month (including some behind-the-scenes shots of Gwen's 9-month photo shoot with guest photographer Morgan).

Gwen's personality is developing very fast lately, as you can tell from the expressions below:

Here's "flirty" Gwen...

... "thoughtful" Gwen

... "giggly" Gwen

... and, last but not least, "cuddly" Gwen.

As we mentioned in an earlier post, Gwen's curly blonde hair is growing fast.

Lately, Gwen's favorite thing to do is pulling herself up on everything in sight. If she keeps this up, she'll be cruising in no time.

While exploring every corner of the house, Gwen discovered all the magnets on the fridge. And, not surprisingly, she also discovered how much fun it is to take them off the fridge and scatter them all over the floor. Yeah!

Last weekend, Gwen helped cheer-on Henry as he took his test for his black belt. She wasn't quite sure what all the kicking and punching was about. But once it was all over, she very proud of her cousin, as we all were. Congratulations, Henry!