Cruisin' at nine months.

Oh how wonderful this month has turned out to be! 

First, you've successfully learned to stand up when being prompted and finally have started to cruise along your play pen. And how joyful you are by doing so.

I am always beaming with pride when people notice how significantly you've grown over the past months thinking how tiny you first came to life. You are my butterball and my charming baby.

Your laugh is so contagious and how I relish it when I tickle you at your giggle points. Your eyes glimmer when you smile just like your sisters. I particularly love how all your eyes seem to twinkle every time you smile. Those pure and innocent eyes takes all the burdens away. It brings so much comfort and it truly warms my heart that saying no would be the hardest thing in the world. 

I am starting to feed you some protein in the form of chicken liver and somehow you like it. Slowly and carefully, I am adding a bit of flavor to your everyday food. I am so pleased that you simply eat whatever is set for you. You’ve started to snack on cereal puffs and milky crackers as well. 

You've started to emulate your sister's habit of letting out a soft cry when attention is not in your favor. I hope you will not grow up to become. Because I am certainly not fond of it. Please understand that there are times that Mama isn’t in tip-toe shape. I’ve been struggling too on how adulting and parenting can be oh-so-hard all at once. Nevertheless, my love for you three is always bursting and will never ever cease.

 

Look at those eyes!

 

My beautiful butterball.

 Here you are with - Daddy.

 

Oh Clara! For always – I love you to the moon and back.

Love,

Mama

Eight beautiful months with you...

Dearest Clara,

Days and nights with you has been great this month. Nights especially when all you do is sleep after feeding and just sleep. Thank you for allowing mama to rest and take naps in between our busy nights when Sabel is all cries and baubles. 

This month has been especially yummy as I introduced you to berries. You've seem to like it by far and I wish it'll be the same when your big and start to be a picky eater (I pray you will never be). 

When you turned 8 months, you started to look a lot like Julia when she was your age. I smile in a certain disbelief because you both look so much a like. 

This month too, we started to prompt you to sit and stand which you very much enjoyed. You enjoy standing tall alongside your crib and watching how the minutes unfold especially when your two sisters are around doing their own thing. At times you fall down and create a frown to your much disappointment. But you gladly smile when being prompted again. Oh how charming you always are!

You enjoy morning strolls with Sabel and at times afternoon strolls with your sisters. Sabel has been so fond of animals that she visits the sheep from our neighbor's yard almost every morning. I hope you'll grow up to be fond of animals just like her. Julia on the other hand has been so lady like and very organized. I too, wish that you'll grow up to get some sprinkling of her kindness. 

I pray that you'll be able to talk real soon. When you can start babbling some baby words. When you can finally say Mama and Dada the least. 

Here you are with your beautiful sisters.

I love you so much my little giant! 

To the moon and beyond, always!

Love,

Mama