9 months in, 9 months out!!

Today marks a very important date. Mira has lived her whole life out of my belly just as much as she was in. To me its such an amazing concept. For 9 months I was only in love with the idea of her. What she will be like, how she will change our lives, what she will become. Now I am in love with her as a person. Her radiant smile, her unique skipping laugh, her massive and most juicy thighs and most importantly, her huggable quality.She is developing into a person with personality, choices, and preferences. This month she has decided that anything off of a spoon is unacceptable and will only eat foods that she can put in her mouth herself. I like to make a concoction  of different varieties of  Cheerios, Gerber puffs and Goldfish. I'll add anything else in that is a good finger food like that, but you get the idea. Jory likes to use them as food for his various trucks and cars. Mira loves to pick out the Goldfish. She will literally push aside everything else just to get to one. 

Mira has figured out how to get from her belly to a sitting position all by herself. At first you can see how proud she was of herself. She always seemed a bit surprised and then real happy about her new stance. Now it's like second nature. I guess she is on to the next stunt. 

We have a talker now. She used to be pretty quiet and only said something when she had something to say. She has discovered that if she makes a noise, someone will look or talk to her. I love to see her at the dinner table and make this loud sound and look intently at her daddy like, "HELLO!!! I am talking to you. YES! YOU DADDY!" And she wont take her gaze off him until he responds to her sound. She will make all sorts of noises while in the car with Jory and stare at him. She wont stop until he looks at her and responds. Usually it gets quite noisy back there. The best is listening to them laugh at each other.  
 
It looks like by the next update, Mira is going to have 2 pearly whites that we are going to have to start brushing. They are just about there and ready to show, but not quite here yet. 

One thing that is totally different from her brother is that Mira loves music. She hears the slightest beat and she starts to rock back and forth. She tries to sing when you sing 'la la la' to her. She will start 'la la la' back at you. It's so cute. What I really noticed within this past month is that she has the EXACT same tongue as my mom did. She would touch her upper lip on the right side with it but it would bend in an almost 90 degree angle. Then on top if that, the part that was bent was very triangular shape. Much like this picture. And on that note. I just cant believe its been 9 months already. She is so big and so wonderful it aches me to describe how much I love her.