nine months
dear Elizabeth, this was such an incredible month for you -- reaching lots of developmental milestones, spending lots of time with friends and family, and growing in independence. you are interested in everything around you, but you also play happily with your toys by yourself for long stretches. you absolutely adore Greta and Cecilia. whenever you see them, you flap your arms and squeal with delight. they love to include you in their imaginary play and you love it too, even when they are making you be the cafeteria lunch lady in their pretend school. for now, they can keep their tiny toys out of your reach, but pretty soon we'll have to banish the Barbies to a baby-free zone! yes, your sisters made you wear one of their ballet hairnets to play lunch lady the perennial favorite 10 Little Ladybugs book that Grammie gave to Greta, still going strong! hanging with the big girls this month we visited the zoo with our dear friends Amelia, Ryan, Adeline and Elias. the whole zoo was deco