nine months

Yes, it's true.  Savanna is officially nine months old today.  Yet another month has zipped by before our eyes.  I know I say it all the time, but time is seriously going way, way, way too fast.  Here is the latest from our littlest cutie.
*Pulls herself up on everything. Her favorite position is to be standing.  *Super social.  She flashes her grin to anyone and everyone.  She loves new faces and places.
*Happiest when we are out and about and around other people.
*Shows some separation anxiety, but it really seems like nothing.  She will cry if she sees me walk out of the room and of course if she is tired or hungry it is worse, but she does so well with strangers overall.
*Loves her binkys.  When we get her in the morning or after naps she usually has one in her mouth and one in each hand.  When I pull the one out of her mouth, she immediately pops a different one in and starts giggling.  It's one of her favorite games.

 *Has the cutest smile in the world.  Her nose always crinkles and her eyes are almost sealed shut because she is smiling so big.
*Lately she has been making sounds, stopping to look at you and flash a huge grin, goes back to babbling for a second, then another grin.  It's like she's trying to tell you a funny story and it is my absolute favorite thing she is currently doing.
*Has a super loud voice.

 *Still doesn't love to be held.  She is so incredibly squirmy that is really hard to hold her.
*Such a tease.  I can't believe she can be a tease at this age, but she totally is.
*Splashes like crazy in the tub.
*Crawling all over the place.  She hasn't really perfected her form, but it looks like she is figuring the legs out.
*Still has no teeth.  It looks like there are about 8 that want to come through, but they never do.
*Clasps her hands a lot.
*Loves to giggle and giggles all the time.
*Usually only cranky starting around 5:30pm until she goes to bed.
*Naps twice a day.  Usually an hour in the morning and about 2 hours in the afternoon, but it varies.
*She drives us nuts at night.  Sometimes she sleeps all night.  Sometimes she is up once, eats and goes back to sleep.  Sometimes she is up just playing around for 45 minutes and then starts crying.  Sometimes she is up 2 hours after we put her down and won't go back to sleep for hours.  It's a mystery.  Once we are done nursing, some serious sleep training is going to happen and let's hope it works.  The worst is if we go somewhere overnight.  I can't figure out how she even knows she's not in her bed, but she does.
*Puts EVERYTHING in her mouth.  She has swallowed grass, dirt, wood chips, and who knows what else.  It doesn't help that she is the grabbiest child I have ever met.  She will find something a mile away and will have it in 2 second flat and halfway down her throat before I can try to fish it out.
*Bows don't stay on very long.
*Not too picky of an eater.  Prefers to nibble at whatever we are eating, especially watermelon and grapes.  She starts giggling if she thinks I am going to give her a bite of something she wants.
*Messy, messy eater.  Mostly because she tries to be so independent.  She is constantly grabbing at the spoon and if even one drip falls, those little magnet hands are in it before you can blink.  I seriously change her clothes 3 times a day and it is common for her to get two baths a day.
*Finally starting to let me read to her more than 20 seconds.  I have been working so hard to read to her a ton and it is finally paying off!

Savanna makes us smile every, single day.  She is such a happy, joyful little girl.  We love watching her learn and grow and we are just so grateful to have her in our family!