Nina at Nine Mo.
Here’s Nina at almost nine months, rooting for the Hoyas in DC. We visited there over the past weekend, and Nina got to see her first basketball game. She liked it, finding the cheering the most exciting. Nina likes a lot of noise!
Her new trick is waving. She waves in all kinds of ways – with one hand, with two hands, at friends, at herself, the Royal Wave, a full-arm-flapping wave…she has gotten very good at it. I think she’s starting to understand English, as she seems to be able to wave when I ask her to. She’s getting close to walking, and tonight she took several steps using her push-able lion from Jim and Liz. She likes to eat Cheerios but can’t put them in her mouth by herself, yet. She’s also eating spinach, avocado (of course), sweet potato, tofu, flaxseed, yogurt, oatmeal, asparagus, cauliflower, carrots, pears, and a few other foods. Soon I will start her on some meat. At her nine-month doctor visit, I learned that she weighs nearly 22 pounds. I also learned that she can take a shot and not cry. She sat on my lap, flinched a bit when the needle went in, and then seemed perfectly fine once it was done.
One other new development: for the first time, she’s a wee bit wary when she meets strangers. She doesn’t recoil or cry, but she just looks at them very seriously and quizzically. I noticed this first at the doctor, and then again today when a few of John’s comics friends came over. After a few minutes, she gets used to the new folks and starts waving.