Nine Months Old!

This photo is very blurry, I know, but I love the clean sheer joy on Anjali's face.

She is happy to be do-ing.

A photo in motion is the truest depiction of her.

"Another month has come and gone. Anjali is nine months old! With so much newness and discovery, it has been thrilling and fascinating to be in Anjali's life lately. We never know what she will find, where she will go, or how she will surprise us once she gets there."

I wrote that on the 24th, and have been stuck here ever since. Perhaps I am just too shocked that Anjali is over nine months old! That seems so old. And if the calendar days weren't shocking me, how about the pants that fit just fine last week that are waders today. Or the socks that swallowed her feet when Gramma bought them that now fit perfectly. The hat that I kept stuffing to the back of the drawer because it was too big that I retrieved the other day to find that it is now too small. Our baby keeps getting older and growing bigger and becoming more of a person and less of an infant. When does this finally sink in ~ when your baby has a baby of her/his own?

I think I've done a pretty good job of documenting the past month in small episodic posts, so instead of a long monthly report, I will just fill your senses with some crawling and movement video. That was the big dramatic development of the month, anyway. This series was taken a few days after that first crawling video, so is "old news" to Anjali, but is still fun for us.