Sam's Fam: Taylor's 9 Month Checkup!

This past Monday we had Taylor's 9 month checkup and Bryant's 3 year checkup. Both went really well. They are both healthy, thriving kids. :) Taylor weighed in at 19 lbs 4 oz (60th percentile) and was 28 1/4 inches tall (70th percentile). So most kids Taylor's age have already doubled their weight, but Taylor has not. Although since she was over 10 lbs at birth that is completely okay. ;) As for Bryant, he weighed 37 lbs 8 oz (90th percentile) and was 39 inches (80th percentile). He is a tall, solid boy! I've talked a lot about Bryant in the last several posts, so this post I'm gonna talk about Taylor! First off, Taylor has several names…she goes by TayTay, Taygirl, and Baby Taylor. :) She is so cute right now, but such a mess. She loves to mess with anything you are playing with or working on at the time. She likes to destroy things. For instance, don't build a beautiful LEGO masterpiece because as soon as you place the last piece she will be knocking it down and laughing. She also likes to play in Sam's water… :/ She likes to pull up on everything. She had been just pulling up to her knees, but just recently started pulling up all the way to her feet. She has been pulling up by the steps a lot, and for the first time today she actually climbed up the first step. I am not excited about this. Her transportation of choice is still the army crawl, although she will get up on all fours and actually crawl like that occasionally. She is just not as fast that way, so she always ends up reverting back to the army crawl. She is a great eater, and an okay sleeper. She has actually slept through the night a total of 3 times…which have all happened in the past few weeks. And by sleep through the night I mean like 7:30-6:30!!! Her talking just consists of the typical baby "baba's" and babble. Today for the first time she called Josh "dada" and "dade". Still no "mama" though, but that will come soon enough! I am a little worried that Taylor is going to be a little mischievous…but we'll just take care of that as it comes. ;) She is as precious as can be, and we just love her so much! Below are lots of pictures, including several from our zoo trip this week!