New found freedoms

Pulling herself up on things.

Feeding herself. She has been doing this for a while. We really encourage it because she loves it.

More room to play around in the big tub. She hated the big tub until she was 9 months old. Now she loves it.

Crawling of course.

Since she can crawl she now is a toy stealer. Oh they start so young.

Avery crawling

Avery is 9 1/2 months old and just started to crawl. She is just getting so big and the time has gone by so fast. At her nine month appointment she was 15 pounds 12 ounces and 25 3/4 inches long. She is in the 4th percentile for her weight and 5th for height. She is eating so many new things now and can pull herself up to a stand on some things. We are so blessed! She is just a doll.

Wes's birthday at the LA Zoo

Here is the cute outfit before we left

She eats everything

I just loved this face

Preparing for the zoo by playing with her bear

The giraffes 

Looking at the gorillas

Daddy & Avery looking at the map

Watching the sea lions swim

What she did most of the day, eat the map

So today is Wes' birthday and we decided to take a trip to the zoo.  It was really fun, and also my first trip to that zoo.  Of course it was Avery's first trip to the zoo.  She adores animals, today though I think she loved watching the people more than the animals.  She did like the chimps and other monkeys though.  We had a great day.  It was so nice to spend the day as a family on my wonderful husband's birthday especially.