Linnea-9 months

Linnea will be 9 months old tomorrow and I figured I might as well post now quickly while she's napping, Clark's having quiet time and Savanna's at school or it'll be another couple weeks before I do it. Linnea is growing up so fast and hit a couple of milestones this last month! At 9 months Linnea:

• Can crawl! (First day she crawled was-October 25th at 8.5 months). She would just do a few little crawls here and there for the first week but this weekend really took off and is now crawling all over the place. She is our earliest crawler! It is fun to watch her learn and grow. She is getting old so fast though!
• Sleeps through the night!! Alleluia!!! On the contrary she is our latest child to sleep through the night. She now sleeps 10-12 hours a night and I feel more rested and am able to get up before the kids most of the time and exercise rather than trying to fit it in later.  I don't really like cry it out so we didn't do that but she was still waking up at 5-5:30 am to eat and we started sending TC in and giving her the binky and she didn't cry really at all. Just went back to sleep. Ocassionally she still wakes up and we have to give her the binky but she has improved quite a bit.
• Still loves to eat but isn't super great with food that's not pureed. She will gag on even small pieces of food sometimes so we're working on that. Recently she has had cheese, grape juice, blueberries, and prunes
• Is showing some separation anxiety. She cried really hard on my mom when TC and I went on a date last week and sometimes gets upset when someone takes her from me. She definitely prefers me over anyone else.
• Prefers men over women (except for me)
• Loves music and will dance
• Loves to spit (which is not usually welcomed while she's eating)
• Loves to laugh and watch Savanna and Clark do silly things
• Loves the computer mouse, my phone, pulling the videos off the shelf and the games (Yes now we have 3 kids that make messes!)
• Can now drink out of a sippy cup

We love our Linnea!!!