9 months and rain

Today Lily is 9 MONTHS OLD! I know every parent says this, but I seriously cannot believe how fast the time has gone. She is getting to be such a big girl. Tiny but big. If that makes sense. I'm trying to think of things she likes doing right now....

She loves clapping.
She points at everything now, it's hilarious, she's always pointing in some direction.
She loves when I come get her out of bed still...she smiles and slaps the crib rail over and over till I get to her.
She is getting much more adventurous...just a couple weeks ago she would only crawl around and play where I was. Now she is wandering all over the place. She's not scared to leave my side anymore.
She still loves pulling her self up on everything.
She loves paper (what child doesn't?) and she loves pulling all of the LOUD pots and pans out of my cupboards.
She loves my phone and loves when I put it on speaker phone so she can hear someone talking. She's always puzzled about who that is.
She hates getting her diaper or clothes changed because she doesn't want to sit still for that long.
She loves toast with butter, she's definitely my daughter.
She's beginning to be a little defiant already - hurrying and sticking something in her mouth when she knows I'm coming to take it away from her, crawling faster and giggling when I'm trying to catch her, and standing up in her high chair any chance she gets even though she knows that means big trouble! She is very sassy already, I have to admit. (she doesn't get that from me.)
She LOVES LOVES LOVES her daddy. When I hear d coming up the stairs to our front door I pick her up and say "who's coming Lily? Who is it?" She holds very still and waits for her dad to come through the door and smiles so big when she sees him. If she's on the ground playing when he comes she crawls to him as fast as her little body will take her, and expects him to pick her up immediately.

I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot of things she loves, but I don't want to bore you too much. Lily is so sweet and funny, we're so thankful she's ours!

We love you Lily

I just took a few pictures quick this morning,
I'll try to post some more later today.

I'm seeing a lot of the back of Lily these days as you can tell.
This is her helping her daddy take his clothes out of the drawer.

her trying to hit the baby on the box of diapers with the belt.

crawling over my leg, bonking her head lightly in the process...
she then sat up and fake cried for about 3 seconds and then went back to playing.
She's so dramatic.

P.S. It is raining a ton here, kind of wish it was snow.