She is just getting so big, I could hardly believe it was already time for her 9 Month appointment. She is doing wonderfully though and that's always nice to hear. Her stats were still in the same line as they have always been. Weight was 17lbs (15%) and Height was 29 ins (86%).
She's a lot of fun to have around and her moods always make me laugh. She's be so so happy 90 % of the time and then you do one thing she doesn't like and life instantly becomes miserable till something goes right again. She also has learned the basics to what I'm saying but its a 50/50 chance as to whether she'll actually listen. 
Now at a first glance you might just look and see a mess but me, I see my daughter FINALLY getting herself into the sitting position and being okay with it.
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She finally has gotten some new toys to the relief of Izzie. She doesn't know how to work them all yet but she loves to push them all over the house. Its apparently my job however to get them out of the corners.
So LaNea has been getting bigger and a lot more daring. For starters she loves to climb and I'm having a hard time keeping her from hurting herself. She's not walking or even standing still yet but she has no problem walking along the furniture. She has gotten over her army crawl stage and now only does the regular one. She's quite fast at it and always keeps Eric and I on our feet. She is also starting to mimick our words and she's said both "Ok" and "yeah". She's still just as happy as anything and her best friend is definately Izzie. They spend a good portion of the day following each other around. Her favorite toy is the turtle in the picture below. She'll play with that all day long and just chew on his arms and legs. 
She just loves helping me out with the laundry. She climbed in there all by herself and has done it every time since.
She is becoming such a good eater. She's always loved to eat and hated drinking her bottle but its fun to watch her feed herself. She tends to eat two handfuls and then throw one on the floor. I wonder if she thinks its good luck or something. .JPG)
And I finally figured out how to add videos online! Yeah me! I might just post some older ones that I have too now even if they're from a few months back. :)This is Lanie playing in the pool. I tried to get it of her playing with Izzie but she likes watching the camera too much.
So while at the park today, we decided to show LaNea what its like to be buried in sand. Our park doesn't quite have sand though so we made due with the rocks. She wasn't really sure about it but totally humored us. :)
As a side note, only one rock was swallowed during this adventure. Not too bad considering all the rocks that were around us.
This last weekend we got to travel to Missouri to watch Josh graduate from High School. Can hardly believe he's old enough to be graduating.
First time Lanie got to meet Aunt Laura! Loved her right from the start.
Still trying to make out what is exactly going on with all these strangers.
Celebrating our new graduate
Watching everyone play in the water and hottub while getting nice and dry on Grandpa's lap.
For the last little while LaNea has started to become so much more independant. From not wanting me to feed her anymore to wanting to only hold one of my hands as she stands. I have no idea where this attribute came from but she definately has it in abundance. Its fun though to see just how big she's getting and I'm now starting to see just how quickly she is really growing up. 
Yes, she did fall over after the picture was taken and No, that didn't mean she learned her lesson. After the second time however, Eric and I moved the step to the other side which didn't stop her from still trying but it made it more difficult than she could deal with right now.
Couldn't believe she would actually get some of the food in the mouth. Not much but a few pieces! :)
