Video

Here are some videos of Margot clapping, pulling up, and cruising.  Enjoy!

Beyonce

Margot has loved Beyonce since she was very little.  She gets very quiet when a Beyonce song comes on.  We also use her songs to help Margot fall asleep when she needs to take a nap.  So, we were very excited when we found out that Beyonce was going to be the half time show at the Super Bowl.  Below are some pictures of Margot enjoying her idol.

Silliness

Here is Margot's newest trick, sticking her tongue out!

And here is Margot playing with a ball.

9 months

 What a difference a month makes!  I cannot even believe how much Margot has developed in the last month.  We went for our 9 month check up today and she is in the 80th percentile for height, weight, and head circumference.  So very big girl, but very proportional!  This past month Margot has mastered her crawling skills.  She is everywhere and very quickly too.  I had to hide Neville's water bowl from her because she thought that was an awesome toy.  She would make a beeline for it every time it was in her eyesight.  She has learned to wave "hi" and "bye-bye."  She says "dog" very clearly now every time she sees Neville.  She is working on Dada, Mama, cat, doll, and ball.  Speaking of ball, we bought her a size one soccer ball.  She likes to kick it with Daddy's help and she can roll the ball back and forth if you sit down with her.  Margot also has learned to go from laying down to sitting up, she can pull up on anything, and is quickly learning to cruise around the furniture.  I am sure she is going to be running soon.  She is learning how to use a sippy cup.  She knows what it does and will take a few sips from it.  I have started just leaving it out on the table and she will grab it and drink from it.  She uses it as a toy also, as it has water in it and it is fun to bang the table with it.  Margot is also eating a lot of table food.  She is very good at chewing and has chunks of green beans, blueberries, strawberries, biscuits, and many, many puffs.  The doctor gave me a lot of good suggestions on food when we saw her and I am probably going to move her mostly to table food now.  She very much enjoys new food and I haven't found anything that she doesn't like yet.  Here are some pictures from Margot's 3/4 birthday.  You can see how much she is growing up.

8 months

Some of Margot's accomplishments at 8 months include:

Scooting (more like army crawling)
Eating puffs (rice like cheerios) by herself
Babbling all of the time

And getting her first ear infection.  She had a really rough time with it.  Slept well but did not eat like our little munchkin likes to.  She had me worried for a bit because she really wasn't drinking at all but all the mommies assured me this was normal and that as long as she wasn't dehydrated she would be fine.  Margot took the amoxicillin like a champ and finished all 10 days very easily.

Here is our 8 month picture.  As you can see, it is not easy to contain an 8 month old.

Christmas

Margot and Daddy made this for Mommy.  They love painting and I love the gifts they make!

Gramma, you have bells on your shirt.

What did I get?

I got a new Sophie!

I love to open gifts!

Our family

Look at all of this paper!

We had a really great first Christmas with Margot.  She LOVED opening presents and playing with all of the boxes and paper.  She was so engaged in all of the toys and really enjoys playing with them.  I can't wait until she actually understands what goes on at Christmas.  If we had this much fun this year, I think next year will be even better!