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For those of you who've grown tired of hearing Bubs say her name over and over again, here is a new video.  In it she gives herself a nickname and reveals who her favorite parent is.

Actually this was a random accident, but I must have laughed more than I thought because she kept this up for the next week.  Dada was less than amused but she has since returned to loving us both equally.

Narcissistic?

She knows the most important people now, Mama, Dada, and Aubrey! Whether she knows she knows is up for debate but you have to start somewhere right?

She is pretty happy with her new knowledge.

9 months!

Ok so she turned 9 months nearly two weeks ago. Better late than never, right?

We went to her doctors appointment and here are her stats.

Weight: 15.94 lbs (7th percentile)

Height: 26.5 inches (18th percentile)

Head: 17.66 inches (76th percentile)

If you've been keeping track, you can see her head growth is going strong and her height is alright, but she didn't gain much weight over the last three months (not even a whole pound). She was also low in iron.

The doctor said it was probably a combination of more exercise through crawling and less eating because she is easily distracted these days. Too much cool stuff going on I guess. He said to try to get her to eat more and feed her more meat to get her iron up. We'll see if it works! That is peach cobbler she is eating by the way. We are trying to fatten her up after all. :)

Aubs is crawling a lot more these days but she still usually scoots for longer distances. She also pulls herself up on things and will walk if you hold her fingers. She is also good at waving and clapping her hands.

She is also teething right now and we can see just a little bit poking up next to her first tooth. Another thing she likes to do it look at pictures of herself. Seriously. If she is fussy we just have to bring out the camera, take her picture, and show it to her and she grabs the camera and starts laughing. We're not sure what this tells us about her, but it works so we'll deal with that later.

Comin' At Ya

Outings

We have been on several outings lately and haven't had a chance to blog about them yet. Here we go!

One fine Sunday we decided to do the BYU thing: go to the duck pond with some bread. Since it is the BYU thing to do though, the ducks were too full by the time we got there. We saw whole slices of bread floating in the water! So we didn't actually feed the ducks, but we did get to see some ducklings up close.

This is the only picture that we got from our Family Home Evening picnic. Great photography, I know. It is an empty cup and she likes to put it up to her mouth and yell into it. She likes how much louder it is I guess. This was a fun picnic but the pavilion we had picked was also being used for a singles ward FHE picnic which was a little awkward. We got there before they did and when we realized what was going on Sage talked to the bishop of the ward and he said he didn't mind if we were there. He said we would be a good example to his singles. Weird.

Another day we went up Provo Canyon and hung around for a bit.

It was a little breezy, hence the sweater, but still a blast. We all played on the playground for a bit, and then Sage went fishing in the Provo River while Bubs and I played on the blanket. It was a fun day.

Below is a video of Bubs and I swinging. She is laughing but she is still a little scared which you can see when she throws her arms to the side. I'm sure one day she will be trying to jump out of the swing, but for now I'm glad she is still my cute little baby.

Daddy Daughter Time

Babies need mommies for sure, but they also need daddies. Lately Bubs has been getting in some daddy daughter time.

Here they are throwing rocks into the Provo River. She laughed every time they splashed in.

Here she is trying out Daddy's ride. She approves.


She also tried on his helmet. A little big still.


And here she is enjoying a milkshake her dad made. Her little face is just saying YUM!!!

And finally here is a video of her playing with her daddy's phone.

He thinks she loves him best. (I know better)

Happy to See Ya!

Bubs is very happy to see you all. She knows she has an ardent fan base that has been clamoring for more of what she does best--being cute! This is her latest work. Yes, that is a tooth showing on her lower gums. And what about those huge eyes! We can't decide what color they are. Hazel?

As her adoring public knows, she turned 8 months old a few days ago. Here is the best picture we could muster and it wasn't until we brought the props in that things started working. She is just getting very wiggly now and won't sit still. She isn't quite crawling yet but she is very mobile and lunges, leans and pushes until she gets what she wants from you.


She recently learned how to shake her head "no" and we had a little fun with that.




Since we had been putting her in her booster seat, she has learned how to chuck things off the tray. In the process, she has realized that those things make a loud noise when they hit the floor so she squinches up her eyes in anticipation of the bang.




And finally a random photo to hopefully keep her public satisfied for a little while. Until next time!