9 months old

I feel like Avery has gotten so big in the last couple of weeks. She still doesn't crawl, but she can bounce in place like nobody's business. She does, however, roll all over the place moving from sitting position to crawling position and then stopping in I-can-finally-stare-at-the-ceiling position.

Avery has learned how to clap and is struggling to learn how to snap. She gets very intense when she practices.

She is also pulling herself up into a standing position. Sometimes I think she will walk before she will crawl. Or run, maybe. She gets into the crawling position and then plants one foot firmly in the ground and stretches the other one back like she is a sprinter on the block. It's hilarious.

Sadly, she has stopped sleeping through the night. She has been a night sleeper since 11 weeks, but this last month she has decided that she needs to wake up at 12 and 4 to eat again. Not fun. I thought it was just a growth spurt that would last a few days, but it's been weeks now.

She has started drinking from a straw now. It gets so hot sometimes, and she wants so badly to drink from my water bottle, that I decided she should just get her own cup. It took her about 5 minutes to figure out what to do and now it is her favorite thing.

One of her other favorite things is being upside down. Her dad will hold her that way until she is in a fit of giggles. Then, when you least expect it, she will bend herself backward or fling herself over the edge of the couch trying to do it herself. That is a more stressful development.

Other than that, all is well here at the Jackson home.

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